Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] what is [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these is that it is easier to do the sum if one deals with histories in what is called imaginary time rather than in ordinary , real time . |
| 2 | This is the ideology which validates decisions on what is considered valuable knowledge , leading to assumptions which Keddie sees as fostering the myth of cultural deprivation . |
| 3 | Are there boundaries to what is considered reasonable for kin to provide ? |
| 4 | So I had opened the shutters on what is called complementary medicine with a slightly heavy heart for it seemed such an indictment of our present specialized , technological society when all medicine must simply be ‘ healing . ’ |
| 5 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 6 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |