Example sentences of "[to-vb] what is [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some churches have found it helpful to set out a few simple guidelines to indicate what is entailed in responsible church membership' . |
| 2 | It is in the case of deeper congruences and possible congruences that the use of ‘ ideology ’ raises most problems , since if ideology is a major reference-point , or even point of origin , at such basic levels of social production and reproduction , it is difficult , as previously in some uses of ‘ culture ’ , to know what is left for all other social processes . |
| 3 | It will use secondary analysis of an existing database , collected in a longitudinal study of social support and childbearing , to explore what is meant by social support , both in terms of family and social networks and from the point of view of the health and welfare services . |
| 4 | For any attempt to define what is meant by spiritual is easily killed in infancy by pointing out how ridiculous such an attempt is : the spiritual automatically transcends all possible categories and definitions . |
| 5 | In Brutus v. Cozens , the House declined to attempt to define what is meant by insulting , and later courts have not sought to do what the House would not , although they have sought to give guidance as to what the term might mean . |
| 6 | Er y your use of the phrase self containment leads me to ask the question , which is that , well in my book it does n't necessarily mean the same thing as an integrated and balanced community , but I 'll put Mr Davis on notice to define what is meant by those adjectives . |
| 7 | That is , the depth of particular religions not only contains a clue to the meaning of ultimate reality , as Tillich maintains , but is the only means open to man to understand what is meant by ultimate reality , for the concept itself acquires its meaning from its use in a particular mode of discourse . |
| 8 | Study the list first and then ask your PP to describe what is worn by one group . |
| 9 | Freud shares what can be seen as the main element in the sociological imagination , that is , to see what is regarded as commonplace action in a particular society , at particular points in time , as being itself in need of some explanation . |
| 10 | These are what we call information skills ; this phrase is meant to include what is known in some contexts as ‘ library-user education ’ , ‘ reading development ’ , ‘ experimental and research training ’ , ‘ study skills ’ and ‘ media literacy ’ . |
| 11 | One is to take for granted that the novel is a mode of communication , and to analyse its formal features as techniques of communication ; the other is to question the assumption that the novel is communication — to ask what is implied by that assumption , and what excluded . |
| 12 | The other difficulty I have is in the er the lower case text which ex attempts to explain what is meant by this particular criterion , the sorts of considerations that will be taken into account . |