Example sentences of "what [is] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it says that 's what 's happening to the poorest communities , the poorest countries in the Third World . |
| 2 | What 's happening to the local government this time of the democracy and they have been savagely attacked savagely attacked at the locally controlled Labour councils . |
| 3 | According to Lorraine Thorne of the Environmental Investigation Agency : " We just do n't know what 's happening to the marine ecosystem of the Antarctic . |
| 4 | and try and find out what they want and what 's happening to the social services and y you know what they think about er what they 'd , what skills they 'd like you to have and the sort of experience you need and so on . |
| 5 | Yeah , what 's happen to the Steering Committee ? |
| 6 | Therefore , on payment out , the court must direct what is to happen to the accrued interest . |
| 7 | Using this assumption , combined with general knowledge of the world , the receiver can reason from the literal , semantic meaning of what is said to the pragmatic meaning and induce what the sender is intending to do with his or her words . |
| 8 | And this depends on our having very powerful and general rules in our minds for relating what is said to the broader context . |
| 9 | An effective planner works very closely with the creative team on an account , and interprets the client 's brief in terms of the consumer 's present and intended perception of the product , to convey what is needed to the creative people . |
| 10 | If an old man thinks so , what is happening to the young ? |
| 11 | In order to understand what is happening in that country we have to see its internal developments as the effects of what is happening to the international economy as a whole . |
| 12 | Unless or until we codify this agenda and give it meaning through our cooperative efforts , those of us who care about what is happening to the other animals will remain individual , separate gears that do not mesh . |
| 13 | Rather , I conclude by inviting all of us whose activism is shaped by our concern for what is happening to the other animals to make a renewed , conscientious , patient and determined effort to come together and forge a common agenda , even as we work , both as individuals and organisations , on projects that are uniquely our own . |
| 14 | I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman can not see the broader picture of what is happening to the other units and that it is not an unfair arrangement . |
| 15 | I suspect that too few Scots are aware of what is happening to the latter . |
| 16 | Too many people know what is happening to the Polish and the Slavs and to the Jews and the dissenters . |
| 17 | However , she said : ‘ The caring 90s is a current media theme , and has more to do with caring about what is happening to the British society and what can be done about it , than about spending more to underpin the disadvantaged and the dependent . ’ |