Example sentences of "what is [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few of those who can read actually believe what is said even in the more responsible newspapers ; like many Middle Easterners they prefer the racy , outlandish explanation . |
| 2 | ‘ It accords with what is written here in the fates , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 3 | What is involved here on the part of the local people is a question much more basic than an economic one and is seen as such by the local people : ‘ Is it really necessary to mine lignite ? |
| 4 | As with women , the jobs on offer for girls and young women are what is termed officially by the EC as ‘ atypical work ’ , that is , part-time and low-paid . |
| 5 | From this you can see that there is a major difference between our approach and the conventional science park , in that we are not undertaking speculative development , but are using what is termed internally within the University as ‘ the incremental approach ’ . |
| 6 | This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above . |
| 7 | A spur , sometimes inappropriately called a snag , is the result of either a breakage not being cleaned back properly to an eye or growth bud , or of pruning too far above a bud — a common case is cutting a bloom , and not paying attention to what is left behind on the plant . |
| 8 | The busiest time for the King 's Lynn depot is between October and February , during what is known locally as the sugar beet ‘ campaign ’ or harvest . |
| 9 | This is what is known euphemistically in the industry as the " application development backlog " . |
| 10 | But such league tables are not what is meant here by the UK 's international position . |
| 11 | Most people in our society have no cause whatever to question the truth of what is put across in the teaching of science , English or history , for example , and therefore the indoctrination which can go on there is largely unheeded . |
| 12 | Instead , the oceanic plate , slid past the North American plate , much like what is happening today with the San Andreas fault . |
| 13 | What it means is what is happening today in the hearts of families and of the peoples ’ ( Vallejo : 1970 , p. 66 ) . |
| 14 | Instead , we should be in tune with what is happening environmentally in the most progressive countries in Europe and throughout the world . |
| 15 | For lack of information about what is happening elsewhere in the world , people record ‘ screendiaries ’ or ‘ mimic minimemoirs ’ ( 7 ) on their ‘ chatterscreen[s] ’ ( 127 ) . |
| 16 | Be aware of what is happening all over the world , but for goodness sake do n't allow the market — by which I mean the City — to guide the destiny of your company . |
| 17 | Mr McGahon said : ‘ There is a high level of crime in this area , but it is a microcosm of what is happening all over the Republic . |
| 18 | Direct supporting of the learner-reader , by parent , non-specialist teacher , or librarian , can complement what is happening formally in the school . |