Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] what [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But look more closely at the statistics , look at what is really happening on the streets and in the shops , look at how people 's lives are changing , and it becomes clear that things are not nearly as bad as they are painted . |
| 2 | There is a growing recognition that an effective response to crime and crime prevention must reach beyond the conventional boundaries of the criminal justice system , and there have already been a number of practical initiatives which either attempt to draw upon the wider resources of the community , or which rely upon what is usually known at the ‘ inter-agency ’ or ‘ multi-agency ’ approach . |
| 3 | More than seven million people in urban areas live in what is euphemistically described as informal housing . |
| 4 | We then consider some of the current and future implications of past changes and of those still to come , both for individuals who survive into what is commonly called old age and for the wider society of which they are a part . |
| 5 | Thus it is clear that " true " or " false " neither add nor detract from what is actually asserted on a given occasion . |
| 6 | What we are in all our shapes and sizes has been fashioned and contoured through both inheritance and experience — the comprehensive impact upon us of our parents , childhood and upbringing , and with it those joys , dramas and significant experiences which contribute to what is sometimes called our adult self . |
| 7 | Such pairs of things enter into what is variously described as interaction , reciprocal causation , functional interdependence , functional relation , concomitant variation , and so on . |