Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we want to know what is happening to the church we need to understand what is happening in the secular world at large . |
| 2 | You have to want to know what is happening to the people . ’ |
| 3 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
| 4 | It also provides an opportunity , and I think this is quite important , for people to get to know what is happening within the fields of expertise , which increasingly in our society become more and more specialised , more and more hedged off from one another , and in a sense I think that there is a very great danger if intelligent adults in the community , laymen in effect , do n't have some idea , some coherent idea , of what 's going on in these fields of specialisation and expertise . |
| 5 | They believed practicalities like how parents are supposed to know what is happening in the nursery should be clarified , and that there were records available for parents to look at and in some cases contribute to , in connection with their own child and with the nursery in general . |
| 6 | ‘ I have my duties , ’ replied Dr Neil , assuming a pompous voice , ‘ and one of them is to know what is happening in the world . |
| 7 | separate legal rules applying differently to different types of credit transaction should be replaced by a single set of rules covering equally all forms of ‘ security interest ’ ( how lenders try to secure what is owed to them , for example , by a right to repossess what is bought with the borrowed money ) . |
| 8 | The first task in attempting to enumerate the extent and nature of informal care is to define what is meant by the term ‘ carer ’ . |
| 9 | What this amounts to , in Corder 's words , is ‘ the accommodation of the structure of our linguistic syllabuses and teaching materials to fit what is known of the sequence of progressive complication of the approximative systems of the free learner . ’ |
| 10 | I 've never felt threatened by these images and certainly never felt compelled to buy what 's represented in the advertisements . |
| 11 | In what looks strangely like an open invitation to the competition to plunder what is left of the 8870 base , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's Comet mix-and-match business management software , which previously ran only on the company 's Unix boxes and its proprietary 8870 and Quattro ranges , will soon run on IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co Unix machines too . |
| 12 | In what looks strangely like an open invitation to the competition to plunder what is left of the 8870 base , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's Comet mix-and-match business management software , which previously ran only on the company 's Unix boxes and its proprietary 8870 and Quattro ranges , will soon run on IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co Unix machines too . |
| 13 | Survival International calculates that 100,000 people have been killed in Guatemala in the last 25 years and over a million forced to flee what is described as the brutality of the US-supported government there . |
| 14 | This last co-ordinate specifically enables the hearer to interpret what is said in the light of what has already been said . |
| 15 | To understand what is happening to the economy we have to be able to explain why we have reached this crossroads , to describe the new path the economy is taking and explain why this new path rather than another direction has been taken . |
| 16 | The interpretation of culture and even the ability to understand what is happening in the society under scrutiny as well as the need to grapple with political or ethical questions are all endless and fundamental problems of the moment ( Phillips 1973 : 78 ) . |
| 17 | Instead we are talking about a series of complex configurations of politics , economics and ideology that recursively interact to guarantee that it is not possible to understand what is happening in the local economies of Glasgow , Liverpool or Birmingham in the UK or Baltimore , New York or Toronto in North America without reference to inner city policies wedded to a particular form of symbolic , frequently spectacular , regeneration . |
| 18 | To understand what IS happening in the Royal Family , TODAY has carried out extensive research . |
| 19 | If we want to know what is happening to the church we need to understand what is happening in the secular world at large . |
| 20 | The more involved that teachers feel , the greater is the tendency for them to understand what is required for the review , to consider the LEA guidelines to be adequate and to recall the review . |
| 21 | Most samples are based on the concept of ‘ random sampling ’ , so it is important to understand what is meant by the word ‘ random ’ . |
| 22 | Before you feel brave enough to steer the kite around fanciful shapes , it is best to understand what is meant by the ‘ edge of the wind ’ because in effect , this is the limit line within which the kite will fly . |
| 23 | Indeed , mere preservation is no longer thought to require justification ; every local history society thinks it has an unanswerable case when it seeks to protect what is left of the past . |
| 24 | Before moving on , let us pause to consider what is meant by the term " socially optimal " . |
| 25 | As Rolle uses his Meditations on the Passion as a means to recognise what is meant by the death of Christ , in terms of the life within ( " it is tokenyng of my deth , and fylthe of my synne , slayn hath my sowle … |
| 26 | The two theories to be discussed next are of more recent date and , essentially , represent attempts to modify Leibniz 's and Kant 's theories , respectively , in an effort to salvage what is regarded as the sound core of these theories by stripping them of their philosophically undesirable features . |
| 27 | Their cattle are finished : they made the last batch of bread with oxblood to save what 's left of the water , and they drink that mixed with wine , of which there is n't all that much , either . |
| 28 | Neil Clarke said he ‘ deeply regretted ’ the loss of managerial and clerical staff but warned cuts had to be made to save what is left of the beleaguered industry . |
| 29 | In many ways this seems to contradict what is known of the culture of the senatorial aristocracy and the Merovingian court in the sixth century . |
| 30 | Too little is known about Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi to enable one to decide what is meant by the title , however , and there is no other evidence to indicate either that he held an official post or , if so , that it was anything other than an ad hominem appointment . |