Example sentences of "what is [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a lease purchase contract , this clause does not exist and if you regularly fail to pay properly , the Leasing Company will arrive , fly your plane away and auction it — and then collect from you the difference between what is outstanding on the lease and the amount realised at sale . |
| 2 | Parents and teachers are the leaders , and the child is expected to obey them because they ‘ know best ’ what is right for the individual and the society he/she is being prepared or ( as some would have it ) fitted for . |
| 3 | Wilko must do what is right for the team , not what is best to save face . |
| 4 | I mean to lay down my life that men like you can live in freedom to fight for what is right in the world . ’ |
| 5 | What is central to the life of an elder may be marginal to each of the several organisations providing services , and , as recently reiterated by the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , can easily be missed in their selective assessments . |
| 6 | What is appealing about the structure at Ichthus is the logic with which it is all applied : each Christian can be involved in a small group that can be healthy , supportive and can help the Christian to be involved in caring for the people immediately around where he lives . |
| 7 | These notes date from 1932–3 , but they make explicit what is implicit in the use of primitivism in Sweeney Agonistes . |
| 8 | I think this being an old hag is what is all in the mind ! |
| 9 | What is new about the Bill is that , where a vehicle is taken and damage or injury are caused , all those involved in the taking , including the passengers , will be equally liable to the more severe punishment for the aggravating events . |
| 10 | ‘ What is new in the book is that we 've produced surviving British intelligence officers of senior rank who make it clear that Popov had this information and was specifically sent to the US to impart it . ’ |
| 11 | What is curious for the observer from the twentieth century is the debate about the possibility of secular education , something after all we now take for granted , although we do hear of debates over the teaching of ‘ creationism ’ in backwoods . |
| 12 | This phytogenetic perspective appears to separate nicely what is essential in the dance to its being a signal or message of some kind . |
| 13 | A more moderate ( though perhaps less consistent ) conservative position would be to differentiate between what is God 's will for His people , and what is allowable in the world at large . |
| 14 | Their policy-making styles vary according to what is optimal for the function concerned . |
| 15 | What has changed above all over the century is the view of what is possible for the individual to decide for herself . |
| 16 | It is concerned with what is possible in the context of the strengths and weaknesses of the company and the threats and opportunities it perceives in the world outside the company , the environment in which it operates . |
| 17 | Naturally , it depends what is appropriate to the music . |
| 18 | The message about using visual aids is to use what is appropriate to the talk and do not let the technique dominate the context . |
| 19 | The scope of the ministerial Council should not go beyond what is appropriate to the role of the Community and should not usurp the satisfactory work of organisations which already exist . |
| 20 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 21 | It is difficult to think productively about ‘ modernization ’ for many reasons , not least the problem of what is appropriate in the adoption of innovation . |
| 22 | What is coincident with the modal 's event is the infinitive event 's potentiality , not its actualization . |
| 23 | This God finds the divine imaged within the human , and notably within what is male and what is female within the human . |
| 24 | What is dangerous about the theory of ideology is that having described the structural relationship between knowledge and extant social relations , it is presumed that a correct attitude will enable the ‘ true ’ account of the world to emerge . |
| 25 | ‘ In my view , the criterion applied by the court in the B. & Q. judgment , according to which an obstacle to intra-Community trade may not exceed what is necessary for the attainment of the objective pursued , reflects both aspects of the criterion of necessity : the restrictive national legislation is relevant with regard to the objective pursued , since it is necessary for the attainment of that objective and has therefore been enacted with that end in view ; the legislation may not go beyond what is necessary for the attainment of that objective , which implies that a less restrictive alternative is not available . |
| 26 | ‘ In my view , the criterion applied by the court in the B. & Q. judgment , according to which an obstacle to intra-Community trade may not exceed what is necessary for the attainment of the objective pursued , reflects both aspects of the criterion of necessity : the restrictive national legislation is relevant with regard to the objective pursued , since it is necessary for the attainment of that objective and has therefore been enacted with that end in view ; the legislation may not go beyond what is necessary for the attainment of that objective , which implies that a less restrictive alternative is not available . |
| 27 | You will take special care to see that the work of the Security Service is strictly limited to what is necessary for the task . |
| 28 | The areas of experience necessary for the full satisfaction of the Test requirements have proven very difficult to acquire over the two-year period , since what is available to the candidate is conditional upon the type of practice he is in and the volume and the quality or variety of commissions received . |
| 29 | By comparison with what is available to the student of more modern times , the medievalist 's sources are often of very thin quality . |
| 30 | This one area in fish keeping gets more attention than any other as can be seen from what is available on the market nowadays . |