Example sentences of "what is [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I start from the assumption that we are interested in what is done in any communicative act . |
| 2 | We argue , however , that the process of search for value for money is politically neutral , even though what is decided in that process will not be . |
| 3 | Quite what is decided in this case is obscure . |
| 4 | What an evolutionist believes is totally and completely opposite to what is stated in this verse . |
| 5 | The differences between what is eaten in the richer countries of the northern hemisphere and what is eaten in much of Asia and Africa is now a commonplace ; it was already becoming visible . |
| 6 | There are two open bothies on the route but contrary to what is written in some places , the farm at lonely Carnmore on the Letterewe estate is not inhabited except for part of the year . |
| 7 | Reason can not decide the truth or falsity of what is revealed in such cases , but can decide whether the revelation is genuine . |
| 8 | On the basis of what is revealed in this survey , there seems to be a very good case for ensuring a maximum involvement of all the teachers in a school in the whole process . |
| 9 | What is shared in these reflections is something experienced and known through the atmosphere of peace , joy and unity , present in the small group communities . |
| 10 | I noted earlier that Marx recognised the social and political ‘ materiality ’ of lines of demarcation other than those of property holding in the ‘ Eighteenth Brumaire ’ : nonetheless what is striking in this passage is that he never settled accounts with the general theory which denied such factors any pertinence in the long run . |
| 11 | What is striking in this case is that the sequence is also clearly marked by a change of code from Creole to English . |
| 12 | What is striking in any analysis of this sort is how much carbon dioxide is attributable to consumption of energy by the domestic sector : 29.1 per cent in 1987 as a result of all those central heating systems , television sets and cooking stoves . |
| 13 | What is needed in this case is a single figure that gives an indication of which package as a whole is best value . |
| 14 | Having systematically run down and denigrated public services since 1979 , they now expect the country to be grateful for being offered lower standards of service than we used to enjoy , and ones that are derisory in the light of what is enjoyed in many other European countries . |
| 15 | Finally , and contrary to what is implied in much of the recent discussion of the " flexible firm " , we were not able to obtain much strong evidence that the use of other forms of " flexible " labour was positively associated with the use of temporary labour . |
| 16 | Contrary to what is implied in much of the recent discussion of the " flexible firm " we found that establishments using either of the two forms of temporary worker were , in general , no more ( or less ) likely than other establishments to use certain other forms of " non-standard " worker — namely part-timers , freelancers and homeworkers — which the survey identified [ see Tables 3.14–15 ] . |
| 17 | Through Ezra I found what is known in these parts as a ‘ room and kitchen ’ flat . |
| 18 | That 's about the going rate for the pros who have yet to crack the top-25 on the money list , wherein lies what is known in these parts as " the long green " ( and we mean the colour of dollar bills , not a snake of a putting surface ) . |
| 19 | These are what we call information skills ; this phrase is meant to include what is known in some contexts as ‘ library-user education ’ , ‘ reading development ’ , ‘ experimental and research training ’ , ‘ study skills ’ and ‘ media literacy ’ . |
| 20 | In our part of Italy , as in every other , there was an information system always in operation : radio popolo , the people 's radio ( what is known in some countries as the grapevine ) . |
| 21 | Precisely what is included in such courses , and the exact relationship between these different labels , is , however , another matter . |
| 22 | The property of a circumstance that ( 5 ) it necessitates its effect , although we did not pause to consider the matter , is in a way essential to a final element in a definition of a causal circumstance , more particularly a specification of what is included in such a circumstance . |
| 23 | It is expected that students will understand what is meant in this context by the terms rank , cohesion , and context of situation , and that they will know something of those recent developments with which the term ‘ Systemic ’ is particularly associated . |
| 24 | But that but that 's my point really , we it 's not really defined what what is meant in this criteria by criteria |
| 25 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 26 | With their characteristic and pervasive atmosphere of sexuality and sensuality and their erotic tales presented or disguised within verbal play , it is hardly surprising that many have considered " pornography " to be an appropriate term to describe at least a good part of what is found in these fabliaux . |
| 27 | What is required in such a scenario is an insurrectionary appropriation so radical as to be also necessarily perverse : Fanon uses Hegel , Freud , and Sartre but in each case simultaneously contests and perverts fundamental principles of their thought . |
| 28 | What is underrated in both views is the cognitive dimension . |
| 29 | In order to understand what is happening in that country we have to see its internal developments as the effects of what is happening to the international economy as a whole . |
| 30 | Despite the fact that modern history grows old within a week , I commend that book to people who want to understand what is happening in that part of the world . |