Example sentences of "[adv] what is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This phytogenetic perspective appears to separate nicely what is essential in the dance to its being a signal or message of some kind . |
| 2 | looking at the main views on offer about the proper focus of RE and ; 2. setting out a possible rapprochement between these approaches which tries to bring together what is good about them , and add what they all tend to omit . |
| 3 | ‘ An inquiry whether anything and if so what is due to the first defendant for any and what costs charges and expenses properly incurred under or in respect of the said mortgage debentures and mortgages including the costs of this action . |
| 4 | So what is wrong with Levi and his Levi-like writings ? |
| 5 | So what is wrong with TCG ? |
| 6 | So what is wrong with this argument ? |
| 7 | Their specifically tuned antennae receive only what is relevant to their existence . |
| 8 | ‘ Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths , but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs , that it may benefit those who listen . ’ |
| 9 | Life do n't mean doing only what is good for you , Floyd . |
| 10 | Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding . |
| 11 | The debate on commercial television remains one of the clearest examples of the Establishment in action in defence of one of its dearest illusions , namely , that it knows best what is good for other people . |
| 12 | Anyway what is wrong with that land of sunshine Australia , that you want to leave it , is it because you have to work for your living there ? ( quoted from Tatchell , Battle , 72 ) |
| 13 | Furthermore , when we do not notice an example , we often begin with a vague feeling that the text is poorly written and have to work quite hard to say just what is wrong with it . |
| 14 | Quine on the other hand takes the evidence of one 's senses to concern not what is internal to the observer but what is external to him , that is to say the presence of certain ( public ) stimuli ( Quine , 1975a , p. 73 ) . |
| 15 | Again , ‘ Insistence on belief in an external realization of the good is a form of self-assertion which , while it can not secure the external good which it desires , can seriously the impair the inward good which lies within our power , and destroy that reverence towards fact which constitutes both what is valuable in humility and what is fruitful in the scientific temper . ’ |
| 16 | Interpretation must always be a matter of matching up what is new to what is familiar : ideas can only be understood in reference to established categories of thought . |
| 17 | It is also what is impressed on the passive mind in perception . |
| 18 | The tensions generated by this process ( and by the kinds of activity , personal and political , which accompany it ) have philosophical consequences , both concerning which concepts seem problematic , and also what is problematic about them . |
| 19 | Ferguson said : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation about Lee Sharpe and we want to end it by saying clearly what is wrong with him . |
| 20 | Women in the community need to find out what is possible for us as a prerequisite to identifying what is not available and what we would like to see . |
| 21 | Another useful way of finding out what is available from publishers is to visit their stands at exhibitions . |
| 22 | If you want to find out what is available in your area , ask the social services department or your local health visitor . |
| 23 | To find out what is distinctive about the style of a certain corpus or text we work out the frequencies of the features it contains and then measure these figures against equivalent figures which are " normal " for the language in question.The style is then to be measured in terms of deviations — either higher frequencies or lower frequencies — from the norm . |
| 24 | He 's already been denied £4,000 in not facing the Windies , and said from his Melbourne home last night : ‘ The selectors have put me in the position where I have to work out what is right for my family and me . ’ |
| 25 | Again , there is nothing wrong with it except that it is " do as I say " and not " let's find out what is right for you " . |
| 26 | Just as you say to a small child , ‘ Keep on the path , ’ rather than ‘ Do n't go on the road , or Please can you talk more quietly , ’ not ‘ Do n't shout ! ’ so it is necessary to seek out what is good in any situation . |
| 27 | I 'm not trying to make it hard for you , I 'm trying to work out what is useful for you , cos it 's no good you just sort of more or less copying it out . |
| 28 | We can set up situations — as noted by John Webster — in which we try to find out what is important to the animal by looking at what it prefers and trying to assess how much it will work for something ; how important that particular resource is to the animal . |
| 29 | As the system is updated , nothing is lost for storage is so cheap that it is always more cost effective to slap a primitive TEI type header on each block of data and transfer it to the next store rather than sort out what is likely to be needed from what is not . |
| 30 | Maybe we are getting the business because of the recession : rather than doing new things , people want to sort out what is wrong with the old ones . ’ |