Example sentences of "[to-vb] what is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some churches have found it helpful to set out a few simple guidelines to indicate what is entailed in responsible church membership' . |
| 2 | This may not always be on a personal level — it could be in your work when you make an inner stand refusing to accept what is dished out to you by shutting that inner door . |
| 3 | ‘ Is it any wonder that , while I might have been too hard-headed to accept what is happening to me , I could not deny I actually felt my heart give a tug that night ? ’ |
| 4 | In this way you will be able to relate what is going on while not actually experiencing it . |
| 5 | Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work . |
| 6 | What we are saying is , the patient ought to be able to determine at any stage of their illness what care they receive , and they ought to know what is coming next . |
| 7 | All lenders would far prefer to know what is happening . |
| 8 | If we want to know what is happening to the church we need to understand what is happening in the secular world at large . |
| 9 | Joe 's obsessive desire to know what is happening brings disastrous results . |
| 10 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
| 11 | To know what is happening when a small bit of wood is shifted , one must grasp the rules of chess and so grasp what move has been made . |
| 12 | All lenders would far prefer to know what is happening . |
| 13 | We need to know what is happening to mental hospitals because they still contain most of the country 's long stay ( continuing care ) beds . |
| 14 | Yet already the urgent need to know what is happening is fading . |
| 15 | They believed practicalities like how parents are supposed to know what is happening in the nursery should be clarified , and that there were records available for parents to look at and in some cases contribute to , in connection with their own child and with the nursery in general . |
| 16 | ‘ I have my duties , ’ replied Dr Neil , assuming a pompous voice , ‘ and one of them is to know what is happening in the world . |
| 17 | You want to know what is happening in a Third World trouble-spot . |
| 18 | Management now requires a larger perspective than in the past : the school manager needs to know what is happening in higher education , in technical education and in the vocational sphere . |
| 19 | The Northern has received telephone calls and letters from people who have contributed and want to know what is happening . |
| 20 | The Northern Echo has received a series of telephone calls and letters from people who have contributed and want to know what is happening . |
| 21 | You have to want to know what is happening to the people . ’ |
| 22 | It is an issue about the public 's entitlement to know what is happening . |
| 23 | Well she wants to go to sleep but she also wanted to know what is happening . |
| 24 | It also provides an opportunity , and I think this is quite important , for people to get to know what is happening within the fields of expertise , which increasingly in our society become more and more specialised , more and more hedged off from one another , and in a sense I think that there is a very great danger if intelligent adults in the community , laymen in effect , do n't have some idea , some coherent idea , of what 's going on in these fields of specialisation and expertise . |
| 25 | It is in the case of deeper congruences and possible congruences that the use of ‘ ideology ’ raises most problems , since if ideology is a major reference-point , or even point of origin , at such basic levels of social production and reproduction , it is difficult , as previously in some uses of ‘ culture ’ , to know what is left for all other social processes . |
| 26 | Most media professionals appear to know what is expected of them in their various organisations , each of which has different political backers , and the media product tends to be created accordingly . |
| 27 | The opportunity this gives an incumbent to take a broad view is useful if he or she has the resources to know what is going on . |
| 28 | ‘ I wanted to know what is going on . |
| 29 | We have a right to know what is going on , so I went to find out . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I want to know what is going on in Birmingham , chapter and verse . ’ |