Example sentences of "what is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What is outstanding , though , is the scenery ’ , declared the kindly reviewer for the Bath and West Evening Chronicle ( 7 December 1974 ) . |
| 2 | On a lease purchase contract , this clause does not exist and if you regularly fail to pay properly , the Leasing Company will arrive , fly your plane away and auction it — and then collect from you the difference between what is outstanding on the lease and the amount realised at sale . |
| 3 | At the start of any meeting to discuss the terms of an acquisition , both parties should be aware of what has been agreed so far , what is outstanding and what is to be covered in the forthcoming session . |
| 4 | What is catty then ? |
| 5 | Against such threats the ego has many defences , such as denial , distortion , forgetting , intellectualization , projection and so on ; and thus it comes about that , in the not uncommon tendency to confuse the theory with the fact of what is repressed , psychoanalysis itself is seen as a threat to the very process of repression which it was the first to discover and is itself subjected to these defensive reactions . |
| 6 | It 's not just what is repressed , it 's the structures of the ego that bring about these repressions , the identifications and so on . |
| 7 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 8 | You need to find what is right with your current life-style , in terms of food and exercise , and what needs improvement . |
| 9 | ‘ One could pity but not censure a being totally deprived of all capacity for recognizing goodness and doing what is right . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ This is also a story of courage and compassion ’ said Owen , objecting to the fact that Inouye had called it ‘ sad and sordid ’ : ‘ caring and sharing ’ — ‘ of doing what is right , and dying for a cause ’ . |
| 11 | May we give careful thought to questions of what is right and what is wrong and try to live according to our beliefs . |
| 12 | Some may hesitate to do what is right . |
| 13 | For me , Clumber Park has to give every child a proper sense of what is right and what is wrong … |
| 14 | The media believed it knew what to give audiences just as academics believed they knew what is right to teach people and the way to teach them . |
| 15 | If you are one of those women who feels guilty about the marriage/home/work situation , sit down and decide what is right for you and those closest to you . |
| 16 | He may even live the kind of life he does not really like simply because he feels that because everyone else is so much wiser than he is they must know best about what is right for him . |
| 17 | They were in favour of the A3 eastern bypass and in any future discussions would support ‘ what is right for Grayshott ’ . |
| 18 | Parents and teachers are the leaders , and the child is expected to obey them because they ‘ know best ’ what is right for the individual and the society he/she is being prepared or ( as some would have it ) fitted for . |
| 19 | In the transcendent world , there are new laws and men must discard their habitual ideas of what is right and what is wrong ; in fact to see the utmost beauty we must look at things with the eyes of a child . |
| 20 | The other voice often brings immediate reward but takes away the inner light and hardens the heart , blinding us to what is right and what is wrong , so that we are no longer certain which path to take . |
| 21 | Further steps can follow only when there is at least some measure of agreement on the question of what is right and what is wrong . |
| 22 | The passage also includes instruction on management 's responsibility to labour — they are to provide ‘ what is right and fair ’ . |
| 23 | Think positively about what is right with your life every day . |
| 24 | Bullies are often confused by people who do n't fight back but who continue to do what is right . |
| 25 | I 'm going to keep doing what is right and no threats from you are going to stop me ! ’ |
| 26 | I am not happy when something unfair happens to someone else and I try to stand up for what is right . |
| 27 | Be prepared to be the first one to stand up for what is right when something wrong is being done to or said about someone . |
| 28 | He would see loads of young people who are trying to learn how to make sense of life , trying to sort out what is right and what is wrong , trying to understand who they are and how to get on with people around them . |
| 29 | He 's already been denied £4,000 in not facing the Windies , and said from his Melbourne home last night : ‘ The selectors have put me in the position where I have to work out what is right for my family and me . ’ |
| 30 | In a sense this Northern mythology asks more of men , even makes more of them , than does Christianity , for it offers them no heaven , no salvation , no reward for virtue except the sombre satisfaction of having done what is right . |