Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] what [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Every county council has to provide what is termed a Structure Plan for the next 10 years . |
| 5 | Occasionally toilet training becomes part of the fight for supremacy between parent and child with the child refusing to do what is asked because of the overall management problem . |
| 6 | Of necessity it has meant that the development of the Institution 's syllabuses tends to reflect what is , rather than what will be . |
| 7 | It is essential at this point to try to understand what is happening to Burton since so much of his public life flows from the tensions between Hollywood and the English stage , between money and art , as it was thought , between philandering and fidelity , between a public and a private life . |
| 8 | The key point made by these analyses of team or group development is that effectiveness ( see below ) is an outcome which develops over time , as the group begin to understand what is required of them and how they can utilise the knowledge , skills and attributes of the individual members in fulfilling group and individual goals . |
| 9 | separate legal rules applying differently to different types of credit transaction should be replaced by a single set of rules covering equally all forms of ‘ security interest ’ ( how lenders try to secure what is owed to them , for example , by a right to repossess what is bought with the borrowed money ) . |
| 10 | After the Glasgow meeting , Mr Wallace said of the Convention 's prospects : ‘ My view is still that when this group tries to examine what is a realistic possibility , realistically we will not be able to embark on any major schemes . ’ |
| 11 | For in that they are living in the modern world , and in so far ( one must say ) as they are good persons seeking to do what is right , conservatives must see much of the critique of past patriarchal relationships to be justified . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Together these principles attempt to establish what is distinctive about the Modular Course . |
| 14 | The two will only be equal : ( a ) if wages and prices are such that firms plan to produce what is currently being produced ; and ( b ) if firms are able to implement their production plans successfully . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , too often the student strains to see what is written because the teacher has not considered how she is using the board . |
| 17 | It provides a lever for the grief process to begin as people start to recognize what is taking place . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some people need to know what 's in food for health reasons . |
| 20 | Q : But surely people need to know what 's going on ? |
| 21 | ‘ 'If the Headmaster wants to know what 's going on , it 's my job to tell him . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The headmaster has to know what 's going on … ’ |
| 24 | In contrast , the gigantic photographic images depicting what the curator Jeffrey Deitch has called our Strange Developments act to bludgeon what is assumed to be our jaded sensibilities , but more obviously demonstrate the burn out of a certain faction of the mid Atlantic artworld , curators and buyers . |
| 25 | Your friends begin to wonder what is wrong . |
| 26 | The President of the USA and other world leaders demand to know what is going on and government scientists are urged to get to the bottom of this — and fast . |
| 27 | This incident seems to epitomise what is believed to have gone wrong with the Children 's Hearing system in Orkney . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , you know , the secret police have to hear what is going on , ’ shrugged a Bucharest physicist . |
| 29 | If the adventurers want to see what is going on in the Black Pit , all they have to do is rap twice in rapid succession with the rod upon the rail . |
| 30 | Tucker wants to know what 's happening about Francis 's personal effects . |