Example sentences of "what be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 61 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 62 | However , in the case of particles emitted from a black hole , the fact that one can not observe what is going on inside the black hole means that one can definitely predict neither the positions nor the velocities of the emitted particles . |
| 63 | What is controversial about functionalism is its claim that we are going to be able to make significant generalizations about behaviour only if we think about what is going on in the brain at a particular level of description . |
| 64 | In the context of these questions , what is it in the brief history of White Western feminist criticism and theory that seems at odds with what is going on in the rest of the world ? |
| 65 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 66 | So what is going on in the world of higher education today ? |
| 67 | WHAT is going on in the car industry ? |
| 68 | As participants , we often do not understand what is going on in the interchange , so caught up are we with our own agendas . |
| 69 | What is going on in the Royal Family ? |
| 70 | Because of poor distance vision , children may miss much of what is going on in the classroom and seem ‘ out of step ’ with the rest of the class . |
| 71 | If the adventurers want to see what is going on in the Black Pit , all they have to do is rap twice in rapid succession with the rod upon the rail . |
| 72 | Skills analysis is an attempt to get at what is going on in the operator 's mind . |
| 73 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 74 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 75 | Customers , or suppliers , or competitors , or even what is going on in the outside world , seem of far less importance than the endless struggle to achieve and operate the perfect bureaucracy . |
| 76 | If , as you claim , medical sociology , and your ethnographic methods , can really open up this realm of process and tell us what is going on in the ‘ black box ’ then you 've got to be more entrepreneurial . |
| 77 | The eyes of some fish enable them to see not only what is going on in the water around them but in the air above the surface . |
| 78 | In broad terms , the shifts of emphasis have been related to two central themes : first , that notions of reading comprehension must take greater account of what is going on in the mind of the reader , and second , that methods of text analysis must take greater account of what is going on beyond the sentence boundary . |
| 79 | They get to find out what is going on in the local employment scene . |
| 80 | On closer inspection it turns out to be also contextual , dictated by what is going on in the mind of the sender and the assumptions he or she makes about what is going on in the mind of the receiver . |
| 81 | On closer inspection it turns out to be also contextual , dictated by what is going on in the mind of the sender and the assumptions he or she makes about what is going on in the mind of the receiver . |
| 82 | Everyone has a different pain threshold but how much of that is due to what is going on in the mind is hard to say . |
| 83 | When we held our first University reunion outside Birmingham , in London , I was delighted that more than 200 of you came along to hear what is going on in the University now . |
| 84 | People often say they are confused by what is going on in the world ; it no longer seems to make sense . |
| 85 | The industrial paradigm has been based on the idea that the purpose of life is the satisfaction of our physical needs ( including our intellectual need to understand what is going on in the physical universe ) . |
| 86 | The object of the research is to enable the organization to find out what is going on in the market-place , and to evaluate the impact on customers , competitors and others , of the organization 's own marketing activities . |
| 87 | Before you read on , write down a description , about half a page in length , of what is going on in the scene . |
| 88 | In return we in the editorial team will try to keep you up to date with what is going on in the University . |
| 89 | The patterns reflect what is going on in the horse 's foot , and especially in its tendons . |
| 90 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |