Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can also be used to indicate what is to be presented by the speaker as the topic . |
| 2 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 3 | I would like to know what 's to be in it , when is the trial audit going to be , I suppose it 's in my diary , em . |
| 4 | Some people need to know what 's in food for health reasons . |
| 5 | The taxpayer paid for it and the taxpayer is entitled to know what 's in it , ’ he said . |
| 6 | They 've got to see you sign the will or at least acknowledge it and in practice see you sign they do n't need to know what 's in the will they just want to see you sign but they 've got to be there it 's no good up the road as one witness did for not for me to her husband who was working in his shop witnessed the signature afterwards . |
| 7 | On no account worry about the following technicalities , but , as with driving a car , it is helpful to know what is under the bonnet . |
| 8 | As a little afterthought , if anyone one would like to know what is on my Christmas list — please tell that Mummy would like a LIE-IN ! |
| 9 | It is all very well to insist that causes have or are powers or whatever , but we need to know what is to be understood by that . |
| 10 | These people may of course want to keep their knowledge secret so as to avoid any involvement in criminal proceedings , which is not helpful to creditors and to credit managers wanting to know what is to be salvaged from the wreck . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 12 | If you go into a pub today and buy a pint of beer , a coke , a low alcohol lager and a packet of crisps , you have a right to know what is in all those products except the beer . |
| 13 | The resident has a right to know what is in the plan , and the staff of the Home will put it into practice . |
| 14 | Bluntly stated : an enquirer into ‘ the mind ’ has to know what is in his own mind and why it is filled in the way it is . |
| 15 | We still need to know what is in that contract or we need to find out whether there is anything peculiar , and I mean illegal , about Harley 's putter . |
| 16 | All too often they have to guess what is in the minds of their teachers . |
| 17 | And we feel that both of those policies combine to establish what is in effect a presumption against erm any form of significant employment development away from the the county 's main settlements . |
| 18 | The impossibility of becoming aware of another 's inwardness without a readiness to let myself feel as he does is plain when someone tries to communicate what is inside his head . |
| 19 | Bruner starts by leading children to discover what is in their own heads , and describes a lesson on sentence structure . |
| 20 | Although big advances in multibeam sonar and improved positioning equipment allow detailed surveys to be made , the only way to find what is in the deposits is to drill cores . |
| 21 | ‘ There have to be considerably greater concerns to displace what is in reality the right of a parent to have their child living with them . ’ |
| 22 | If she withholds beyond their as yet limited capacity for tolerance , their continuing rage seeks only to destroy what is in her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They can not risk their freedom by authorizing a standard of value to define what is to be maximized by a teleological principle of justice . |
| 25 | It should then be possible to add to this minimal definition more closely to define what is to be done . |
| 26 | For instance , a pupil with hemianopia or a diminished visual field may have to sit at an angle rather than square to the blackboard in order to use remaining vision usefully to discriminate what is on it . |
| 27 | And one can only put the sudden drying-up of mounts for champion jockey Peter Scudamore down to whispers about him reaching an age when he 's beginning to wonder what 's on the other side of the racing fence . |
| 28 | As has been frequently pointed out , it is no use providing excellent beer or food if the pub in question has lost all of its charm and atmosphere ; and surely a multi-roomed pub , with a number of differing environments , is the best way to serve what is after all always a very diverse and unstandardised community . |
| 29 | ‘ You do n't seem to have much hesitation about speaking your mind , whether I want to hear what 's on it or not , so I 'll speak mine for a change . |
| 30 | 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 ? ’ |