Example sentences of "[noun] of [pron] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The type of answer required will be given by the answerer 's perception of what it is that is making the questioner curious . |
| 2 | Though our modern technology and civilization is based largely upon our ability to harness the electron , conventional physics still has no real perception of what it is we have got our hands on . |
| 3 | The model is now flying at the maximum speed of which it is capable and is in a situation where all power above that required to maintain height goes into making the model move forwards . |
| 4 | The broken , Monkish phrases , lean , understated tone with a faint quaver to it , and unerring sense of placement are to be heard on five Monk tunes , and the trumpeter , Don Cherry — a musician of whom it is distinctly difficult to say you know what is coming next — is available on some of them . |
| 5 | Harvard has a reputation as the premier medical school in North America , and the fact that it has chosen to introduce sweeping changes in its course is likely to make other schools take stock of what it is doing . |
| 6 | Whatever abstract mathematical objects I may choose to represent energy or momentum , the consequence of actually measuring them is the concrete one of finding that I have present so many units of whatever it is . |
| 7 | In addition to giving the numbers mentioned above , for each scheme the catalogue names the award , the units of which it is composed and the centre validated to offer it . |
| 8 | It would suggest that when faced with a choice between a case which rests on constitutional theories about limited government derived from a ‘ higher law ’ which controlled what government could legitimately do , and a case which rested on actual practices of government bolstered by actual law , the jury preferred the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is . |
| 9 | It is both ‘ the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong ’ and a preference for ‘ the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is ’ . |
| 10 | and Higher Education , Harrogate 's got Harrogate College of whatever it is now |
| 11 | In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time . |
| 12 | Interpreting the meaning of a text is not just a matter of adding together cumulatively the individual meanings of the words of which it is composed . |
| 13 | A socio-technical system must also satisfy the financial conditions of the industry of which it is a part . |
| 14 | ( In the light of which it is pleasing to discover that in 1566 , when Rainoldes was a 17-year-old student at Oxford , he acted the part of a female in a play composed tor Queen Elizabeth — see Paine , The Learned Men , 23 ) . |
| 15 | Then the spider will roll it up and , so as not to waste the valuable protein of which it is made , eat it . |
| 16 | Allowing that , being feelings , they are , more accurately speaking , in my mind , this use of ‘ perceive ’ , though to us a rather strained one , must seem to the Cartesian to be the paradigm for philosophically responsible talk of what it is to perceive something . |
| 17 | We have no mental conception of what it is like to perceive the world through antennae . |
| 18 | A theory which provides wide-ranging holist explanations , for example , will be successful , not in the light of any general conception of what it is to explain things , but in the light of the much more limited interest guiding holism . |
| 19 | Until you have known it you will have no conception of what it is to be truly lonely . |
| 20 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 21 | That it does so , so profoundly , is a vital part of what it is for . |
| 22 | To know this is part of competence with the concept of B ; part of what it is to know the meaning of ‘ B ’ . |
| 23 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 24 | But such emotions are themselves informed by the way in which we see the world , by our conceptions of what it is that we find desirable or fearful . |
| 25 | There are some phenomena of which it is very difficult to give children direct experience in the classroom . |
| 26 | I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle . |
| 27 | But just as the overall form of our body remains the same , despite the constant replacement of the atoms and molecules of which it is made , so is the overall form of nature maintained as identifiably the same old physical universe , though the pattern may alter markedly over the course of time . |
| 28 | What , on the opposite of what it is now ? |
| 29 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 30 | An act is ‘ in furtherance ’ of a trade dispute when the doer genuinely believes it will assist the cause in support of which it is done : the House of Lords has emphatically rejected the addition of any requirement that the act be ‘ not too remote ’ or ‘ reasonably likely to succeed . ’ |