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 | On no account worry about the following technicalities , but , as with driving a car , it is helpful to know what is under the bonnet . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The resident has a right to know what is in the plan , and the staff of the Home will put it into practice . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All too often they have to guess what is in the minds of their teachers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bruner starts by leading children to discover what is in their own heads , and describes a lesson on sentence structure . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | If she withholds beyond their as yet limited capacity for tolerance , their continuing rage seeks only to destroy what is in her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It should then be possible to add to this minimal definition more closely to define what is to be done . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? ’ |
| 25 | It is also a very time-consuming process as it of course doubles the viewing time to select what is to be edited . |
| 26 | A decision to leave what is to be done for a particular child … to the school is not itself , in my judgment , a determination of the special educational provision for the child … which would necessitate the making of a statement . |
| 27 | It also reflects the frequently ignored reality that our ability to predict what is in our own best interests is always less successful than actuarial ( or statistically-based ) prediction ( Meehl , 1954 ) . |
| 28 | Using measures which explain variations in utilisation in normative formulas is to confuse what is with what ought to be . |
| 29 | ‘ Using measures which explain variations in utilisation in normative formulas is to confuse what is with what ought to be . |
| 30 | Chamber of Trade chairman , Dick King , told the Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting : ‘ I believe it is basically wrong for membership subscriptions to finance what is in effect a benefit provided for the town , and enjoyed by many other businesses who do not contribute a penny to the upkeep . |