Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] [verb] about the " in BNC.

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1 This is his acid way of counteracting the Alka-Seltzer effervescence which is washing about the stomach at this time of year .
2 Or else she turns to him in the middle of dinner and asks : ‘ What 's happening about the Matterhorn , Howard ?
3 What 's happening about the car ?
4 Probably the classic statement of this approach is that used by the J. Walter Thompson ‘ T-Plan ’ , as described by Stephen King in Developing New Brands , where responses are divided into responses from the senses ( what is perceived about the brand ) , from the reason ( what is believed about the brand ) and from the emotions ( what is felt about the brand ) .
5 This is not only to do with the intellectual innovations that led to the idea of the first factual surveys through to the social psychological and , finally , to the explanatory surveys incorporating variable analysis , but also to do with what is indicated about the nature of society and social life .
6 Thus , what is said about the text is contingent on the nature of those institutions : it will differ across literate societies , as it does for instance between those with a tradition of novel-writing or of academic institutions etc. and those without , and its consequence will depend on the social role , functions and meanings of its practice .
7 Probably the classic statement of this approach is that used by the J. Walter Thompson ‘ T-Plan ’ , as described by Stephen King in Developing New Brands , where responses are divided into responses from the senses ( what is perceived about the brand ) , from the reason ( what is believed about the brand ) and from the emotions ( what is felt about the brand ) .
8 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 .
9 ‘ If what is written about the boy is true — if he is but a fraction as talented as is said … well , it would be a great waste to kill him . ’
10 Probably the classic statement of this approach is that used by the J. Walter Thompson ‘ T-Plan ’ , as described by Stephen King in Developing New Brands , where responses are divided into responses from the senses ( what is perceived about the brand ) , from the reason ( what is believed about the brand ) and from the emotions ( what is felt about the brand ) .
11 What is striking about the Heseltines is that both register exactly the same expression of expectant acceptance .
12 What is striking about the Information Workstation Group 's efforts is that their actual study of multimedia is far better than their attempt to define it .
13 What is striking about the refusals in the two extracts above is that both are given immediately , without any pause , and both are met with following laughter .
14 Little scientific data has ever been released to assess the effect of the killing on the dolphin population , and much of what is known about the hunt has been gathered at great personal risk by non-government organisations .
15 The problems encountered when making a 17 keV neutrino fit with what is known about the universe are the second reason for scepticism .
16 Nevertheless , it is worthwhile attempting to relate the NVC to what is known about the vegetation .
17 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 .
18 What is known about the capacity of mentally ill mothers to care for their babies ?
19 SIR — Lisberger and Sejnowski , and Judge in News and Views , discussed what is known about the cerebellar control of the vestibulo-ocular reflex ( VOR ) .
20 However , we now wish to complicate the picture of language processing even further by considering what is known about the way in which speakers produce language .
21 You can see that much of what is known about the Moon can be accounted for by these theories .
22 The study focused in three central issues : what is known about the introduction of competition into the provision of goods previously supplied publicly ; whether competition improves efficiency — and the relative contributions of competition and ownership ; and the scope for extending competition tendering in the UK public sector .
23 The assessments of these probabilities are made on the basis of what is known about the additional research , or the consultant , in relation to the unknowns in the project ( Moore and Thomas , 1979 ) .
24 His mental imagery , on the other hand , reflected influences from wider sources and to understand this we need to examine what is known about the relatively young pope — he was 37 or 38 — elected to the chair of St Peter in January 1198 , whose reign later generations came to see as " the apogee of the medieval papacy " .
25 The assessments of these probabilities are made on the basis of what is known about the additional research , or the consultant , in relation to the unknowns in the project ( Moore and Thomas , 1979 ) .
26 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 .
27 Also , the heavy reinforcement of the outer voices seems in keeping with what is known about the practices of the Grands and Petits violons .
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