Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [Wh det] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , it is commonly the case that what is highlighted or backgrounded is an attribute , or range of attributes , of the entity referred to . |
| 2 | It is usually the case that what is specified , against a certain background assumption , is a part of the nomic correlate of something else . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the mouse does n't eliminate the keyboard completely , the basic information still has to be fed into the computer but what is does do is to make the manipulation of that information much simpler . |
| 4 | In other words it 's a new it 's something which is not done directly from the computer but which is using information the computer provides . |
| 5 | Upper : the upper part of the boot which encases the foot and which is sewn or glued to the sole unit . |
| 6 | The initial one-to-one meeting , held with one of the two group leaders , serves to clarify what participants can expect from the course and what is expected of them . |
| 7 | However , many inexperienced pilots get so thoroughly engrossed in the thermalling or what is going on elsewhere that they are temporarily ‘ switched off ’ to how they are flying . |
| 8 | Similarly , the recognition that what is said about Jesus in the New Testament is the expression of faith in him , and that this side of the matter , though not the only one , can not be left out of account , has also become a basic axiom of much modern New Testament study . |
| 9 | In addition there has been considerable cultural experimentation , with the result that what is considered desirable in some places is not in others , where its consumption may indeed be taboo . |
| 10 | This orbit intersects the top face of the box B in two points , one of which lies to the left of the stable manifold of the origin and which is represented by the doubly infinite sequence ( with mark ) … |
| 11 | Moreover , just as there are general references to Salic law in the Pactus Legis Salicae , so too there are broad allusions to Ripuarian law in the Lex Ribvaria , suggesting once again that there was more to the law than what is contained in the code . |
| 12 | The lectures are at the Institute and what is learnt is immediately put into practice with the trainees acting as helpers in the various groups . |
| 13 | So the fact that the liberation of Kuwait is the primary target , then the invaders have used force , therefore force is the counterbalance and what is happening right now is they try to dismantle this war machine and make it ineffective , so it is interconnected . |
| 14 | However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases . |
| 15 | The writer works at the impossible task of creating a poem , a narrative , which tries to narrow the gap between the signal and what is signalled : tries to reverse the separation between the world and what we write about the world . |
| 16 | In the absence of a joint election by the vendor and Newco under s531(3) TA 1988 , " know-how " which has been used in the trade and which is disposed of is treated as part of goodwill . |
| 17 | You could just work these movements as given and all would be well but it is always better to understand why you are working the method and what is happening . |
| 18 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |
| 19 | This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above . |
| 20 | 7.1 Each of the Parties agrees during the term of this Agreement not to participate in any project which competes with the Project or which is designed to fulfil the same or similar objects . |
| 21 | Throughout the Plowden Report runs the assumption that what is taught in schools ( ie what we , the adults expect children to learn ) must relate to where the child is ( intellectually , social , emotionally ) rather than to where we think the child ought to be . |
| 22 | A response to the gender inflection or masculinism of philosophical theories should involve , I think , neither merely the assertion that women too should be seen as included under or capable of whatever norms are suggested by the theory , nor merely the assertion that what is seen as feminine should be valued too , or given equal status with what is male . |
| 23 | We care about the country and what is happening to its people . |
| 24 | This royalty shall not exceed the amount that would have been paid had such copies been printed and sold by the Publisher and which is set out in Clause I of this Schedule |
| 25 | This royalty shall not exceed the amount that would have been paid had such copies been printed and sold by the Publisher and which is set out in Clause 1 of this Schedule . |
| 26 | This data can quickly be transferred from one information system to another and can be combined and transformed in ways which might not otherwise be practicable ; furthermore , data held on computers is invisible and not directly intelligible so that people have more difficulty in knowing what is in the records or what is happening to them . |
| 27 | ‘ A company should give people as much information as possible about why change is happening , what impact the changes will have on the individual and what is expected of them . ’ |
| 28 | The fact that what is seen as crime varies with different societies does not affect the definition of crime — as an act which breaks the criminal law of the particular society . |