Example sentences of "of what [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Portraiture has a namby-pamby ‘ not-quite- serious-art ’ reputation , because of what 's wanted of the painters . ’ |
| 2 | To keep the user aware of what 's going on the screen display includes a highlighted bar detailing the current screen mode , fore- and background colour selected , the drawing and dot modes . |
| 3 | The whole of what 's known as the Corbet block was completely destroyed . |
| 4 | When he 's out on the street he 's totally aware of what 's happening to the market , of what the competition is doing , of what customers want . |
| 5 | We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time . |
| 6 | Well on the issue of what 's happening in the er Health Authority here , it 's a very much erm a surprise to everybody because those of us who were at the last meeting that we had , only a couple of months ago , to quite categorically saying that , she , that she was just not interested in the . |
| 7 | They 're cut off from the reality of what 's happening in the Cities . |
| 8 | It 's a comparison of of what 's happening in the county in terms of registrations of births and deaths , and what 's happening nationally . |
| 9 | The elders in the congregation will take careful note of what 's happening in the circuit with regards to these figures and the standard of er talks and so forth and the standard of teaching , well it 's not for us to quibble about it is it ? |
| 10 | We 're also , now that we have er erm the , the council 's actually hung , but now we have the , the Labour Group largely in control of the direction of what 's happening in the city er we 've been able to raise some issues that were extremely difficult to raise under the previous Tory administration . |
| 11 | Well I , it 's difficult of course to look any distance ahead , er against the background of what 's happening in the Gulf . |
| 12 | Things on a landfill site happen very quickly and it 's vital both for safety reasons and for effective management control to have immediate knowledge of what 's happening beneath the ground . |
| 13 | Now if you 're a horse racing fan … the brain will be galloping … the mouth watering … at the thought of what 's to come over the next few weeks … |
| 14 | Let us use SENSE to refer to the basic logical , conceptual , paraphrasable meaning , and SIGNIFICANCE to refer to the total of what is communicated to the world by a given sentence or text . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Like so many folk customs , the reality of what is seen on the superficial level is obviously a little different . |
| 17 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 18 | Over in Water Ross the deer are just part of what is seen as the larger problem of who is in charge , and who makes decisions about wild places . |
| 19 | This literature , whilst being mindful of the ordinary business cycle of boom and slump , growth and recession , is especially mindful and critical of what is seen as the increasing coincidence between the five-yearly election cycle and the rhythm of the economy . |
| 20 | By way of abbreviation of what is stated by the independent conditionals in ( 5 ) , cc can be said to have necessitated e , and e can be said to have been necessary to cc . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It 's obviously too early for me to judge whether in the absence of such a definition the Department seek to intervene , but in the word , in the light of what is said in the current P P G I think that must be a possibility , but for the moment , sir , we have very much have an open mind , and we obviously , like everyone else , are looking forward to your conclusions on this issue . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , Debord 's place within a reified history of ‘ political modernism ’ is assured , more by virtue of what is claimed for the work than by its testing in public — Levin admits that screenings have been rare , especially outside France . |
| 28 | Details of what is included in the rate to be charged to the tour operators , such as meals , beverages and gratuities , will have been discussed and finalised between the tour operator and the hotel before confirmation of the reservation . |
| 29 | Monitoring of healing is best done with serial ultrasonic scans as this is the best way of producing an image of what is occurring in the centre of a damaged tendon . |
| 30 | Given that the theist believes that defining God involves thinking beyond the limits of thought , can he or she also fulfil the demand that a clear explanation be given of what is meant by the word ‘ God ’ ? |