Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] what [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think we 'd better have a look to see what 's wrong , ’ Mum said . |
| 2 | Perhaps LIMB has simply given librarians the opportunity to replicate what is available and to produce improved guides more quickly , but widespread duplication is still common . |
| 3 | But although we are not arguing that women or feminists have privileged access to the truth about reality , we agree with Jaggar that the standpoint of women offers an opportunity to see what is wrong with current male-defined theories and to correct them . |
| 4 | The really important provision is s 3(2) ( b ) ( i ) , restricting exclusion of liability to perform what is reasonably expected of the party concerned under the contract . |
| 5 | Chief executive Frank Burns said : ‘ We would have had to spend 50pc of the cost on fire precautions in any case , so we have taken this opportunity to provide what is the most important building in Wirral with an entrance that gives patients , staff and visitors a welcoming and efficient first impression . ’ |
| 6 | It is an issue about the public 's entitlement to know what is happening . |
| 7 | Cutting down on conditioning time does n't mean cutting down on conditioning , so check out your chemist or salon to see what 's new . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a tragedy to see what 's happening to it but it 's nice to know the council is trying to do something , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Instead there is an attempt to consolidate what is already known . |
| 10 | That is not to say that there has been universal agreement , but there has been an attempt to discover what is best for the consumer . |
| 11 | For any attempt to define what is meant by spiritual is easily killed in infancy by pointing out how ridiculous such an attempt is : the spiritual automatically transcends all possible categories and definitions . |
| 12 | If the land is unregistered , then it is now common practice to use what is called a " Rule 72 Transfer " . |
| 13 | It will need some more dynamic force to do what is needed . |
| 14 | This is a very central issue for any sociology of the global system in so far as it makes the difference between a dismal chronicle of inevitability , which is absolutely not my intention , and an attempt to illuminate what is happening by a theory of what makes it happen and , by implication , what could make other things happen in other ways . |
| 15 | This last co-ordinate specifically enables the hearer to interpret what is said in the light of what has already been said . |
| 16 | This is society 's attempt to recognize what is happening and to institute a mourning process . |
| 17 | Goldstein nevertheless warns of the bias in therapeutic transactions towards perceiving refusals as uninformed : ‘ refusals may therefore be used as a justification for challenging the capacity of the citizen to decide what is best for himself . ’ |
| 18 | To explain this reaction , I must first introduce some concepts that help the physicist to describe what is happening in an inversion layer . |
| 19 | On International Women 's Day , 1989 Palestinian women made an appeal to women the world over for solidarity and action to end what is a fascist occupation . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) There is a modern attempt to defend what is called objectivism in ethics which turns on viewing both facts and values as essentially social constructs which are what they are because they are either what society drills us into accepting or what exceptional individuals can persuade us follow from the procedures we have been drilled into accepting as correct . |
| 21 | Second , we can do a great deal to explain what is going on within the funeral service — the symbolism , the words used , the belief that lies behind some of the things said . |
| 22 | For instance , some children were asked to produce a drawing to show what is inside their bodies . |
| 23 | Funds are the main consideration but the old shed at Derby Road , now 101 years old , is very much intact , and , what is more — serving its original purpose as a locomotive depot , as well as providing a unique opportunity to view what is a fairly extensive collection of rolling stock and motive power . |
| 24 | ‘ The problem for people at the USTA and the LTA is that they are too far removed from what is going on in tennis to know what is really required , ’ he says . |
| 25 | He pointed out that there would be nothing in the Act to meet what is itself a mischief frequently encountered today , namely , industrial espionage or obtaining information as to security details or other confidential information which may be stored on a company 's computer . |
| 26 | Hiller , who did some of her early studies in anthropology , adapted a crypto-scientific attitude to create what is in effect a modernist celebration of female fertility . |
| 27 | What is likely to strike us , however , is the compliment that Pound pays us ; his courteous confidence in our disinterestedness , our patience and eagerness , and our capacity to experience what is on the page before us , whether in French or English , without needing to have him constantly at our elbows , nudging us and crying , ‘ Ca n't you see ? ’ |
| 28 | They just want the child to do what is asked quickly and dread a battle . |
| 29 | Parents may need help in learning how to ask their child to do what is required . |
| 30 | But when the parent is teaching the child to do what is asked , the parent needs to wait and check . |