Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh det] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slide away that many people accept as being inevitable is based on a number of assumptions we are conditioned to accept which are reinforced by the comments of others . |
| 2 | Some churches have found it helpful to set out a few simple guidelines to indicate what is entailed in responsible church membership' . |
| 3 | Interest received by the bank(s) is used , firstly , to meet what are referred to as the funding costs of the loan . |
| 4 | ‘ Is it any wonder that , while I might have been too hard-headed to accept what is happening to me , I could not deny I actually felt my heart give a tug that night ? ’ |
| 5 | Fundamental is the need to relate whatever is studied to the child 's own experience , and also to awaken motivation and stimulate enquiry . |
| 6 | Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's my boy — I 've a right to know what 's become of him ! ’ |
| 8 | Those that are n't winners do n't want to know what 's happening to anybody else . |
| 9 | DO YOU want to know what 's happening to our countryside , forests , seas and seashores at home and across the world ? |
| 10 | I mean they like to know what 's happening to their children all day . |
| 11 | You obviously need to know what 's happening on each side of the hedge . |
| 12 | Tucker wants to know what 's happening about Francis 's personal effects . |
| 13 | ‘ Now you know I 've no right to be here , ’ she said , ‘ I want you to know what 's waiting for me if ever I get taken back . |
| 14 | If we want to know what is happening to the church we need to understand what is happening in the secular world at large . |
| 15 | We need to know what is happening to mental hospitals because they still contain most of the country 's long stay ( continuing care ) beds . |
| 16 | You have to want to know what is happening to the people . ’ |
| 17 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
| 18 | It also provides an opportunity , and I think this is quite important , for people to get to know what is happening within the fields of expertise , which increasingly in our society become more and more specialised , more and more hedged off from one another , and in a sense I think that there is a very great danger if intelligent adults in the community , laymen in effect , do n't have some idea , some coherent idea , of what 's going on in these fields of specialisation and expertise . |
| 19 | They believed practicalities like how parents are supposed to know what is happening in the nursery should be clarified , and that there were records available for parents to look at and in some cases contribute to , in connection with their own child and with the nursery in general . |
| 20 | ‘ I have my duties , ’ replied Dr Neil , assuming a pompous voice , ‘ and one of them is to know what is happening in the world . |
| 21 | You want to know what is happening in a Third World trouble-spot . |
| 22 | Management now requires a larger perspective than in the past : the school manager needs to know what is happening in higher education , in technical education and in the vocational sphere . |
| 23 | It is in the case of deeper congruences and possible congruences that the use of ‘ ideology ’ raises most problems , since if ideology is a major reference-point , or even point of origin , at such basic levels of social production and reproduction , it is difficult , as previously in some uses of ‘ culture ’ , to know what is left for all other social processes . |
| 24 | Most media professionals appear to know what is expected of them in their various organisations , each of which has different political backers , and the media product tends to be created accordingly . |
| 25 | You need to know what is required of you . |
| 26 | They 'd want to be sure the items had been reported stolen and the person who owns this suitcase for example , would need to know what was written on the other side . |
| 27 | Michael Liley , the Association Director , has pointed out that important changes were in the offing , and it was important to know what was to happen as the change were likely to be found unpleasant in the trade . |
| 28 | Like McAllister , he wanted to know what was coming over him . |
| 29 | " Now , I do n't want to know what was discussed at the meeting ; if I did I could find that out easily enough . |
| 30 | It was always better to know what was going on than to lie in bed with the door shut and wonder what was happening . |