Example sentences of "[vb base] what [pron] is [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look what there is against her . ’ |
| 2 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen , South ( Mr. Doran ) and other colleagues know what it is to which I refer . |
| 4 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 5 | Two occasions in the book about his partisans quietly illustrate what he is for his readers in this respect . |
| 6 | They relate what there is to what , in the authors ' views , there ought to be . |