Example sentences of "what is [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can send any character into any tunnel , but each can only collect the pages for which he 's responsible , and the only way to find out who gets what is through trial and error . |
| 2 | What is at question , though , is his sincerity . |
| 3 | What is at stake in this novelty could scarcely be greater . |
| 4 | But the play also acknowledges quite clearly that what is at stake is nothing less than the legitimacy of the whole social order , hinging as it does on a ‘ naturally ’ sanctioned law of sexual difference . |
| 5 | What is at stake is the complete collapse of the economy . ’ |
| 6 | Undoubtedly there is humour here , but however much we laugh we must not forget what is at stake , nor fail to appreciate the danger into which Abraham has brought not only Sarah , but the grand purposes of God . |
| 7 | I understand that , but the substance of what is at stake in this election is the policies that the parties put forward … ’ |
| 8 | What is at stake is not the creation of a private zone in a public place , but the restoration of a local facility which everyone can enjoy . |
| 9 | What is at stake in this , and in the work of a number of other writers whom Neale acknowledged , is a sensitivity to generic difference as much as to repetition , and , in particular , to generic difference which can not simply be assigned to the magical agency of authorship . |
| 10 | Try to work out what is at stake . |
| 11 | All these questions become acute , and unless we have a clear understanding of what is at stake we may quickly go under and revert to the low expectations for church life that have perhaps characterised our previous experience . |
| 12 | Everyone watching knows what is at stake . |
| 13 | ‘ What is at stake is the survival of a credible European policy . ’ |
| 14 | What is at stake is not his authority , integrity and reputation . |
| 15 | What is at stake here is not innocence of a crime , but your reputation , and by a medical , not a legal tribunal . ’ |
| 16 | The Further Education Unit offers us four headings : examination of what is at stake in a given issue ( including vested interests and decision-making procedures ) ; experience of membership of a decision-making group ; background knowledge of national and local government ; and personal legal rights . |
| 17 | So when the Danes reconsider it in another referendum on May 18th , will most Europeans know what is at stake ? |
| 18 | Here it is not a question of suggesting that Hegel is somehow answerable for the excesses of capitalism or even socialism in the past two hundred years : rather what is at stake is the argument that the dominant force of opposition to capitalism , Marxism , as a body of knowledge itself remains complicit with , and even extends , the system to which it is opposed . |
| 19 | Land use planning decisions also generate a considerable volume of litigation , once again partly because of the value of what is at stake and partly because of dissatisfaction with the system of planning appeals . |
| 20 | These examples show that the value of what is at stake and the availability of alternative remedies can both have an effect on the likelihood that the courts will be asked to review particular government decisions . |
| 21 | The fact that the public law applicant is usually challenging the exercise of a discretionary power does not mean that what is at stake for him or her is any less important than the sort of interests protected by private law . |
| 22 | To see what is at stake here , we can juxtapose this question with two others directed at the same problem . |
| 23 | Here it becomes clear what is at stake in developing a grammar which will provide acceptable criteria for distinguishing " right " from " wrong " in linguistic usage : intervention into the culture of the masses . |
| 24 | But although the realm of political forces and their support blocs — the realm of political agency — remains to be investigated , the foregoing analysis of the economic class structure does yield certain implications in terms of what is at stake in socialist transformation . |
| 25 | For example , how did these so-called professionals come to get involved with us — and what is at stake for them in the way they define their relationship to us ? |
| 26 | You have an opportunity through experience for knowing better than anyone else what is at stake and how much effort it takes , and what a loss it is if you do n't do everything you can to make your partner contented . |
| 27 | What is at stake is whether conurbations like Merseyside and Tyne side face a future as grim as the present Belfast . |
| 28 | While it may be too much to expect the applicant to appreciate the wider impact and implications of his proposal , and while it may be unreasonable to expect any but the most steadfast defender of National Park principles to resist continual local pressure for change , CPRW hopes that this Inquiry will enable a more far- sighted view of what is at stake , to prevail . |
| 29 | Down manager Peter McGrath 's clinical assessment of next Sunday 's senior championship joust with Derry aptly sums up just what is at stake at Pairc An Iuir . |
| 30 | We simply must do more , he would say , to help young people during their formative years , to understand what is at stake and to want to become involved . |