Example sentences of "on what is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Buxton , aged 82 , plans to travel with the containers : ‘ We have been running as a charity for about 10 years and I usually go over with the donations to cities such as Krakow and report back on what is badly needed over there . ’ |
| 2 | Hence the reliance on what is socially defined as ‘ crime ’ and various forms of illegal profits . |
| 3 | Robert Rogers comments on what is commonly held to be the widespread use of metaphor among schizophrenics . |
| 4 | Whether the Government are Labour or Conservative , the inspector ought to have the right to comment , on , for instance , funding and on what is currently going on in the Prime Minister 's county of Cambridgeshire , where there have been some very severe reductions . |
| 5 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 6 | A relativist will deny that there is a unique category , ‘ science ’ , that is intrinsically superior to other forms of knowledge , although it may well be that individuals or communities place a high value on what is usually referred to as science . |
| 7 | Credit union Savings and loan clubs of people with common bond ( for example , tenants ' association , factory employees ) , cash loaned for particular purpose , not usually more than a few hundred pounds ( but could be £4,000 ) ; usually fixed weekly repayments ; interest paid on what is still owed at rate fixed at start . |
| 8 | The former concentrates on what is actually happening , comprehensively outlining the growing problems of deforestation , desertification , soil erosion , flooding , siltation , as well as a decline in standards in health , housing and industrial pollution control . |
| 9 | Research is focused on what is actually happening in response to the innovation . |
| 10 | I will turn finally to experiments on what is now called the ‘ child 's developing theory of mind ’ ( see Astington , Harris and Olson , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | The new proposals extended the rating for all works on what is now known as ‘ main river ’ — the larger watercourses — to the total catchment area . |
| 12 | The captain of this ship , we are told , ran his vessel aground on what is now known as The Spanish Rock and one or more tailless cats clambered to safety there . |