Example sentences of "what [is] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know what 's happening to this place . ’ |
| 2 | What 's happening to this house ? ’ and Agnes , as she made her way to the linen cupboard , called back over her shoulder , ‘ You 've got the answer to that , Mother , if you dare to face up to it , ’ which left Alice Conway open-mouthed and dumb . |
| 3 | Now if it 's tablets they 've taken we do n't do whatever Angie did years ago in , in Eastenders and , and then she 's walked up and down and given gallons of coffee , what you do is keep your casualty at rest , nil by mouth because you , if you give them any fluid whatsoever it 's going to dilate , dilute the tablets that are in the stomach , and once they 're diluted they 've gone into the system quicker , mm , so there 's nil by mouth , now if you 're going to get up and walk them up and down because come on you must walk up and down , what 's happening to this per these tablets ? |
| 4 | Well look what 's happening to these test papers . |
| 5 | What 's happen to this button ere ? |
| 6 | The explanation will also include what is related to this and is absolutely fundamental to scientific method , which is the experimental procedure of testing and establishing connections by the " varying of circumstances " , which is essentially the discovery of what is relevant and what is irrelevant to a given event . |
| 7 | In practice it 's a piece of paper that 's been written out by you or at your direction to say what is to happen to all your goods and chattels and property when you die . |
| 8 | Recent mine closures and the proposed privatisation of British Coal is focusing attention on what is to happen to costly pumping activities . |
| 9 | In other words , they take into account such information as what is happening to the money supply ( assuming that they believe , money supply growth to be a cause of inflation ) and what is happening to such factors as world oil prices , trade union militancy and the exchange rate ( depending on which of these are perceived as major determinants of inflation ) . |
| 10 | She has offered her plight as an example of what is happening to many small producers . |
| 11 | The bridge was like a symbol which suddenly made me realise what is happening to that country . |
| 12 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 13 | So what is happening to that money ? |
| 14 | What is happening to all the waste ? |
| 15 | The aim is to present a brief overview of what is happening to historic pubs today , and to provide suggestions as to how this perceived threat to our old pubs can be effectively limited . |
| 16 | We need to know what is happening to mental hospitals because they still contain most of the country 's long stay ( continuing care ) beds . |
| 17 | But that is just what is happening to black people coming to Britain as dependants and visitors . |
| 18 | Employers and workers make mistakes in unscrambling what is happening to real wages , but it is essential that these mistakes be made in opposite directions . |
| 19 | Problem ( b ) has already been dealt with , but problem ( a ) reflects the difficulty of determining what is happening to relative prices when prices in general are rising . |
| 20 | The Minister , however , does not give a damn about what is happening to people on the lowest incomes ; he does not even understand what is happening to local government . |
| 21 | The UK Tax and Price Index was introduced in 1979 and aims to measure changes in real spending power which depend both on what is happening to retail prices and on what is happening to after-tax incomes . |