Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [to-vb] what [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Rolle uses his Meditations on the Passion as a means to recognise what is meant by the death of Christ , in terms of the life within ( " it is tokenyng of my deth , and fylthe of my synne , slayn hath my sowle … |
| 2 | Indeed , even in the as yet relatively non-totalitarian welfare states of the West some have already discerned the same paternalistic and enslaving trend : ‘ government 's role is to serve as a parent charged with the duty of coercing some to aid others , ’ while government-funded welfare programmes ‘ put some people in a position to decide what is good for other people . |
| 3 | You are in a position to see what 's going on in the university world and therefore I 'd like to ask you one or two questions , rather general questions . |
| 4 | Alas , no party is in a position to deliver what is so desperately needed . |
| 5 | The two theories to be discussed next are of more recent date and , essentially , represent attempts to modify Leibniz 's and Kant 's theories , respectively , in an effort to salvage what is regarded as the sound core of these theories by stripping them of their philosophically undesirable features . |
| 6 | Sociology , however , insists on a willingness to reject what is ‘ obvious ’ , ‘ common sense ’ , ‘ natural ’ , and to go beneath the surface of such understanding of the world . |
| 7 | separate legal rules applying differently to different types of credit transaction should be replaced by a single set of rules covering equally all forms of ‘ security interest ’ ( how lenders try to secure what is owed to them , for example , by a right to repossess what is bought with the borrowed money ) . |