Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 At the end of the body of the lease prior to the schedules there will be what is known as the testimonium and , while there is in law no necessity for a testimonium , one is almost invariably included .
2 This seems to be what is happening in the examples above , where the adult is acting as a simple feedback loop .
3 At this point I might as well confess to being what is called in the trade a ‘ megalithomaniac ’ .
4 presuppositions are what is taken by the speaker to be the common ground of the participants in the conversation .
5 But Jesus does n't just say that which is born of the flesh is flesh , but he also says , and that is which is born of the spirit is spirit .
6 Ol' Turry 's back and this time there 'll be trouble , 'coz he 's what 's known in the trade as a fruit-and-nut case ( he needs a check-up from the neck up ) .
7 And it says that 's what 's happening to the poorest communities , the poorest countries in the Third World .
8 what 's what 's happening at the nursing home on Christmas Day , do you know yet ?
9 And that 's what 's happening at the moment , because we 're not sitting down and saying , I mean , this is my worry about oh we might do this there , that 's why I want it tightened up because at the end of the day we start , we have various modules at a later date , two , three years time whatever we might decide to sling out but it should really be designed , worked upon so that the incoming person can use it as a basis given their limitations
10 Is that , presumably that 's what 's happening at the moment , it just goes one pound ninety in deficit each month
11 So what 's what 's happening with the chlorine then ?
12 And that 's what 's happening with the council you see .
13 No disrespect to their craft , that 's their job , but would you like it if you were sister , working in intensive care or an A and E department to have your appeal judged by a plumber or a joiner and that 's what 's happening in the Mersey Region at the moment .
14 In Amazonia he 's what is called in the Garrimpo world , a donno The owner of the gold digging area and it 's machinery .
15 Erm there 's another Econ Soc the Economic Society putting on a lecture at five o'clock on Wednesday er in A forty two and the topic there is What 's Happening to the Distribution of Income in Britain and he is also talking to the Public Sector .
16 If there is what is regarded by the law as an office then public law remedies are available to protect its holder who is entitled to natural justice ; he can thus regain his office if he is dismissed without a hearing .
17 This is what is planned in the community care services , with local authorities losing some of their responsibility for provision but retaining responsibility for the allocation of resources .
18 A given administrative arrangement is neither good nor bad … what really counts is what is done with the group once it is established …
19 The implicit curriculum is what is received through the total impact of what actually happens in school .
20 This distinction between the system and its use , between langue and parole , is what is reflected in the separate triads ( A ) and ( B ) in Fig 4.4 .
21 If this is what is offered as the advantage of a hung council , I fail to see the benefit .
22 ( That , after all , is what is meant by the external cause of a daily rhythm. ) for example , could we not argue that the plant could move its leaves in response to the sun ; the shore-dwelling creature leave its burrow in the mud when the tide recedes ; or the diurnal or nocturnal animal respond to sunrise and sunset ?
23 This is what is meant by the rather confusing term random access .
24 The properties of the state so formed are related in a probabilistic way to the properties of the states out of which it is composed [ the photon has a chance unc a of transmission ( which is a certainty for polarisation along y ) and a chance cos ' a of not being transmitted ( which is a certainty for polarisation along x ) ] This is what is meant by the superposition principle : that states can be combined in this way with a probability interpretation of the result .
25 There must be the finding of the court as well as that of the jury , and that is what is meant by the ‘ substance and effect of the conviction . ’
26 This is what is meant by the ‘ decentring of the subject ’ in structuralist theory .
27 Attendance for the purpose of peaceful persuasion is what is protected by the Act … not mere attendance , standing with banners ; the attendance is for oral communication . ’
28 In practice , the free press is not a " free " press : it is what is left of the copy by laws and by lawyers .
29 One typical outcome is that the reference strip ( which is what is used for the diagnostic ) is seen as too big due to spreading and then overflows its allotted area .
30 It does not follow that it is the duty of government to provide these services — the duty could be discharged by securing that they are available from other sources : this is what is implied by the distinction between the providing and enabling state .
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