Example sentences of "what is [be] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever uses it may serve within descriptive linguistics , and there is clearly some advantage in dividing up and abstracting fields of study for specific purposes , it is quite a different matter to then take such abstract categories as ‘ language-systems ’ rather than language uses as the basis for cross-cultural comparison , particularly when what is being compared is such a socially charged concept as ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 2 | For the nation , what is being said is that unprecedented revival is coming and exceeding any ever seen before . |
| 3 | For a closer analysis shows that what is really being talked about in such propositions is not men or dragons , but the concept man and the concept dragon , and what is being said is that certain things fall under the former concept , whereas the latter concept is empty . |
| 4 | What is being asked is this . |
| 5 | It is tempting to think that what is being attempted is some sort of solar containment , trapping the power of the sun and storing for energy . |
| 6 | Laterality effects in normals are notoriously sensitive to experimental manipulations that ought not to be influential if what is being measured is some fixed attribute of cerebral organisation . |