Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be emphasised , however , that although in a sense Spinoza recommends the ethical precepts he endorses to each of us as what we will accept if we act with a view to our own best interest , these best interests are conceived in a way which is very far removed from the goals of what is commonly called egoism . |
| 2 | The computer holds the microprograms in what is normally referred to as a control store . |
| 3 | How much of this gravity low is attributable to the normal clastic sedimentary fill of the basin and how much to the Permian and Triassic salt beds within it is not known . |
| 4 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 5 | This pattern had never been noticed before , but as soon as researchers started looking for it , several case studies of what is now known as phonological dyslexia were reported in rapid succession in the early 1980s . |
| 6 | The present tenants of what is now known as John Dakyn House , renovated and restored and comprising six modern flats , have like the original tenants to have been born or lived in the parish for ten years , be of retirement age or invalids . |
| 7 | I will turn finally to experiments on what is now called the ‘ child 's developing theory of mind ’ ( see Astington , Harris and Olson , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | The transfer of ownership to the co-operative in 1988 has resulted in one of the most conspicuous restorations within what is flexibly called the Old Town of Edinburgh . |
| 9 | She traces the origins of language interactions in the communicative patterns of earliest infancy , suggests some valuable features of what is sometimes dismissed as ‘ baby talk ’ and with extensive reference to the research literature , reviews a whole range of features of adult language that are thought to assist the child 's task of language learning . |
| 10 | The linked records hold the details of what is actually ordered . |
| 11 | For details of what is actually needed , please see the list at the back of the church or an identical one in the Family Centre . |
| 12 | Goal displacement in the form of means becoming ends in themselves is often said to be a characteristic dysfunction of bureaucratic forms of organization . |
| 13 | Robert Rogers comments on what is commonly held to be the widespread use of metaphor among schizophrenics . |
| 14 | His report has galvanised a powerful alliance of interests behind what is loosely described as ‘ the Somerset House Group ’ . |
| 15 | It is these positive examples of what is generally taken to be a negative force that have given rise to such concepts as ‘ white ’ ( i.e. good ) witchcraft ; they are part of our European tradition and lend a certain credence to Margaret Murray 's exaggerated presentation of a satanic underground cult of evil co-existing with orthodox Christianity . ’ |
| 16 | This problem is so great that it has become fashionable to call for a new kind of organization to put in place of managerial hierarchy , an organization that will better meet the requirements of what is variously called the Information Age , the Services Age or the Post-lndustrial Age . |
| 17 | It hardly needs emphasizing that on any question that is interesting , such as social roles of the sexes , we would have to be able to read the historical record better than we now can in order to arrive at any strong conclusions about what is biologically discouraged . |
| 18 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |
| 19 | Political parties , professional associations and local authority associations are frequently the major actors in what is often referred to as the ‘ national local government system ’ ( see Rhodes 1988 ) . |
| 20 | Out of the conceptualization of housework as work which is a major theme of this study arises the need to spell out the different components in what is broadly termed women 's ‘ domesticity ’ . |