Example sentences of "what is [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so-called ‘ one-door approach ’ has many attractions in what is fast becoming an over-crowded arena and a strategic , national approach to export promotion is to be welcomed . |
| 2 | In spite of this , the words ‘ buyer beware ’ still carry a very real warning in one type of purchase and that is what is colloquially called a private sale . |
| 3 | The transfer of ownership to the co-operative in 1988 has resulted in one of the most conspicuous restorations within what is flexibly called the Old Town of Edinburgh . |
| 4 | BSL learning usually begins beyond what is normally considered an optimal age and should therefore be compared with the learning of foreign languages later in life . |
| 5 | For example , in Cureton 's analysis of iambic pentameter in Chapter 5 , all lines metrically begin weak-strong-weak , even those having what is traditionally called a reversed first foot . |
| 6 | Between 1168 and 1174 , Barbarossa spent what is often termed the middle period of his reign in Germany . |
| 7 | In some birds each sheet is twisted through a small constant angle with respect to its predecessor , giving rise to what is sometimes called a twisted ply or structure ( Figure 4 ) ; such a structure is handed . |
| 8 | I regard the father 's promise in this case as what is sometimes called a unilateral contract , a promise in return for an act , a promise by the father to pay £1 per week in return for the mother 's looking after the child . |
| 9 | Given what has been said , further , a mental event is not necessarily what is sometimes called a whole mental state , which is to say all of a person 's consciousness at or for a time , but typically is a part of a whole mental state , a part which itself has parts . |
| 10 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 11 | So is what is sometimes called an open conditional : If it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 12 | This process is begun more explicitly in Barthes 's S/Z which in its change of direction opens what is now called the post-structuralist era and marks the end of the so-called classical or scientific period of structuralism . |
| 13 | The first band of earnings attracting this contribution should run up to what is now called the lower earnings limit . |
| 14 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 15 | Once again the Italian School is represented by the largest number , fifty-one ; there are no additional Spanish drawings ; the British School has increased by two , the Flemish by eight , the Dutch by twenty-three , the French by twenty-nine , but the surprise is the rapid expansion of what is now called the Central European School , comprising German , Swiss and Prague Schools , of which there are twenty-nine compared with the fifteen published in the first volume . |
| 16 | The growth of what is usually called the middle class has largely been the result of the increasing amount of white-collar work . |
| 17 | At the heart of what is commonly called the Anglican tradition of church music are the cathedrals , collegiate and choral foundations and Royal Peculiars of the Church of England . |
| 18 | These centuries were the age of what is commonly called the feudal society . |