Example sentences of "what [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as important as establishing what to include is deciding what to exclude , and it is here that the purists may find cause to tar and feather us . |
| 2 | and have a word with him because he he knows what chutes is blocked up and what wants cleaning out . |
| 3 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 4 | The difficulty is not in the observing but in the interpreting of what has been observed . |
| 5 | The second is that it is unclear whether the findings on animals really predict what has been observed in humans . |
| 6 | Under these conditions AER regeneration does not occur , and in contrast to what has been observed in the chick , there is no obvious effect of AER removal on limb outgrowth ( Figs 1 a , b and 2 a ) . |
| 7 | This result is in contrast with what has been observed by Isshiki et . |
| 8 | Essentially this consists of a series of extended interviews , together with a scrutiny of documentation and similar deliverables , resulting in a report in which conclusions are illustrated by quotations from interviews , or descriptions of what has been observed . |
| 9 | Quite clearly , while I 'm not prepared to put a a figure on the contribution that conversions are going to make to the period to two thousand and six , I 'll be most surprised if it was a long way different from what has been taking place in the past . |
| 10 | If this happens , he will give you written information about what has been done , and where you can get advice or assistance . |
| 11 | By so phrasing each paragraph and bringing each incident to a proper conclusion , Nijinska gives both dancers and audience time to consider what has been done and what is yet to happen . |
| 12 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 13 | It is the task of the sociologist to understand all this , to find out what has been done already in this field , to see what light the general background of religious and familial studies can shed on this particular social act , and to formulate original ideas in a more explicitly sociological fashion . |
| 14 | This is what has been done for ‘ pocket ’ LC TV . |
| 15 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 16 | The September issue of Catholic Voice , our diocesan newspaper , carried an insert — four pages giving an overview of the diocese — what has been done by many people — clergy and laity — during recent years — what should be developed or initiated , together with a general account of the financial position . |
| 17 | The ordeal of repetition is a way to jumpstart the indecision of beginning again : not to repeat what has been done but to retrace the same path . |
| 18 | ‘ what has been done ’ |
| 19 | These criticisms , which focus on what has been left undone rather than on what has been done , are inevitably inconclusive . |
| 20 | What has been done supplies the framework of justification for what is to be done . |
| 21 | What has been done , and what is morally judged , is partly determined by external factors . |
| 22 | If the aim of judicial review is seen as being only the protection of individuals ( whether people or organizations ) , this would suggest and justify standing rules which require the applicant to show that he , she or it is specially affected by what has been done or decided . |
| 23 | Imagine wanting to live in that room , that awful room , with walls like dung-heaps , what has happened in there , what has been done in that room ? |
| 24 | A characteristic of automatic performance is an apparent loss of memory for what has been done during the previous few moments . |
| 25 | For example , to summarise what has been done above ( we refer to row i as |
| 26 | summarise it , and an awful lot of what has been done by the subjects |
| 27 | Well the only thing is that I hope that the next generation that is coming along now will appreciate what has been done for their generation because it took a long time for us to get what we wanted for our children and now with our grandchildren are coming along I hope the town will improve with their growth . |
| 28 | He justified his policy to the Chiefs of Staff by arguing , ‘ We shall be doing no more than what has been done in Italy … in turning people who were satellites … into co-belligerents . ’ |
| 29 | The motion before such a committee is that it has considered an instrument , so that the only means of protest is to vote against the motion — in effect , deny doing what has been done ! |
| 30 | Would that I could undo what has been done . ’ |