Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] be [be] [vb pp] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the idea of self help obscures the fact that what is being sought are facilities on the cheap , incorporating the unpaid labour c.f mothers themselves … |
| 2 | The paragraph should , in my judgment , be amended so as to make clear that what is being sought is an order for steps to be taken restoring all the parties to the respective transactions to their former position . |
| 3 | He further demonstrates that what is being tested is often the social conventions of a dominant class , rather than universal logic . |
| 4 | With Rousseau and Robespierre it is clear that what is being offered is not a support for Christian belief , but a rival . |
| 5 | It is tempting to think that what is being attempted is some sort of solar containment , trapping the power of the sun and storing for energy . |
| 6 | She guessed that what was being said was that Piphros was the control , the experiment running alongside the real one , that indicated the result that could be expected with a known norm . |
| 7 | However , the fact that what was being sought was an interim order undoubtedly coloured the judge 's approach . |
| 8 | If even a radical liberal felt obliged to make such disavowals it may seem paradoxical to suggest that what was being discussed was , in fact , democracy . |
| 9 | One correspondent to the TES wrote that what was being measured was too simple to determine a child 's future . |
| 10 | It was assumed that what was being measured was a property of the personality . |
| 11 | For a closer analysis shows that what is really being talked about in such propositions is not men or dragons , but the concept man and the concept dragon , and what is being said is that certain things fall under the former concept , whereas the latter concept is empty . |
| 12 | In such cases , if what is being transferred is a part only of the business , the employee may well prefer to assert a claim to continue employment with the transferor in the retained parts of the business this was the stance of the employees in Katsikas . |
| 13 | Laterality effects in normals are notoriously sensitive to experimental manipulations that ought not to be influential if what is being measured is some fixed attribute of cerebral organisation . |
| 14 | Looking at the report and using the present criteria for increase in pensions and these are the figures that I did n't produce but er they look pretty bleak as I said because what the pensions can expect next year will be eighty four P for single pensioners and one twenty eight in that area for a couple and then we had look at we have some concern of what happened yesterday in a statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who said he is going to extend V A T and also it has now been that instead of putting on half of it in nineteen ninety four he put the full pile at seventeen and a half percent in nineteen ninety four because what was being saved is that if he 's leave the other half to nineteen ninety five it 'll be round near the elections and er there could be some difficulty . |
| 15 | A partnership connotes a business relationship , whereas what is being sought is institutionalization of a domestic relationship . |
| 16 | That is , it is unclear whether what is being maintained is that our conception of effects is of unnecessitated events or that we should change it to that . |
| 17 | Thus for Austin and Kelsen , for example , a legal duty depends on the ability of the state to wield a monopoly of force in the event of its violation , whether what is being transgressed is a ‘ command ’ or a ‘ norm ’ ( Austin , 1861 ; Kelsen , 1967 ) . |
| 18 | The manager needs to know — and to make sure other people know — whether what is being practised is what has been described as transactional leadership ( fixing and dealing ) or transforming leadership ( involving partners in raising one another to higher levels of motivation ) . |
| 19 | But even though what was being contemplated was regionally restricted , it nevertheless went far beyond what these states , following the British line , had been willing to accept at the European level . |