Example sentences of "what [is] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never felt threatened by these images and certainly never felt compelled to buy what 's represented in the advertisements . |
| 2 | Portraiture has a namby-pamby ‘ not-quite- serious-art ’ reputation , because of what 's wanted of the painters . ’ |
| 3 | What 's needed on the railways is real competition , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Staying on the coastal highway , you come in turn to what 's left of the cities of Philadelphia , Baltimore and Washington DC . |
| 5 | There is more to a meal than what 's put on the plates . |
| 6 | And they stare , ca n't stop , they know what is said of the claws , the biting words from her jaws , and a shiver tightens the pores of their hairless flesh . |
| 7 | Labour Members should consider what is said in the parents charter about inspection of schools in Wales . |
| 8 | In Britain , the verbatim parliamentary record of what is said in the Lords and the Commons is possibly the most trusted document one could find . |
| 9 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 10 | There is obviously a complicated relationship between what is printed in the newspapers and what people come to believe , and we would not wish to suggest that people passively and uncritically absorb all that they read there . |
| 11 | The second , by contrast , is a striking use of ministerial authority to influence what is taught in the schools and is indicative of the assertive pursuit of government policy to wield such influence . |
| 12 | If its editors can elicit combative prose from a wider range of directors , future editions could yet provide an antidote to the star-struck hype that makes up most of what is written about the movies . |
| 13 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 14 | What is won on the swings is lost on the roundabouts . |
| 15 | The first step is to translate aims into objectives , that is to state exactly what is expected of the students . |
| 16 | circulating employees with information about the work experience scheme and its purposes , ie what is expected of the employees towards the student ; |
| 17 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |
| 18 | They seem to be inconsistent with what is known of the laws of nature . |
| 19 | Again it is not merely the experiencing of the occurrence of each of these events on a number of occasions which is expressed , but rather what is known about the persons referred to by the subjects of these sentences as the result of either experience or receiving information about them from some other source . |
| 20 | The Construction Industry Research and Information Association ( CIRIA ) has been given the responsibility of gathering together and adding to what is known about the risks . |
| 21 | Also , the heavy reinforcement of the outer voices seems in keeping with what is known about the practices of the Grands and Petits violons . |
| 22 | Star is what is known as a systems house . |
| 23 | One of the new cards will be located on the ground floor of what is known as the flats building , occupying space vacated by previous winding machines . |
| 24 | Their clothes were expensive and had cigarette burns in them , their licenses had been taken away from them , their faces showed signs of what is known as the ruins of great beauty , they were always in various stages of depression ; and , being the way they were , this had the effect of making them exceedingly witty with the scaffold humour that Lydia preferred . |
| 25 | They operate by what is known as the venturi principle : water from the tap is forced through a restriction in the body of the dispenser which causes suction in the throat of the restriction . |
| 26 | THE BUTTER Information Council is what is known in the terms of peasant wisdom as a fool unto itself . |
| 27 | What is included in the appurtenances of property is a question of fact . |
| 28 | The first is to reiterate that what is included in the categories being used to describe curricular and extra-curricular developments depends upon the breadth of definition of the curriculum . |
| 29 | To a great majority of those persons with whom they come in contact it is the only opportunity afforded of learning what Oxford means and what is meant by the powers of an Oxford education . |
| 30 | ‘ The question , therefore , is , what is required by the words ‘ substance and effect ? ’ |