Example sentences of "what [pers pn] is [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding .
2 In Liverpool , a dockers ' spokesman with the Transport and General Workers Union admitted : ‘ Drivers are n't happy handling some of these commodities , but at least a lorry-driver has more idea of what he is handling than a docker , who could have a consignment and just not know what it is . ’
3 The first of these is when the teacher is asked to do a manageable job , where he is working within his intellectual capacity and has that confidence which proceeds from really knowing more about what he is teaching than the children do .
4 An outsider , too , can often distinguish between a child ‘ lost ’ in what he is doing and a child intent on ‘ showing ’ what he is doing .
5 ‘ To refine these further by attempting to specify what it is hoped that a Mosotho child should know , feel and have the skills to do as a result of a full Primary education and at each stage during that education .
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