Example sentences of "[noun] of what [pers pn] 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 | But a mathematician should be taught to try to take me with him , so that I may have some appreciation of what he is doing , and why he enjoys doing it . |
| 4 | If there were not this evidence that at this point he is only hazily in command of what he is doing , we might ask — though to no purpose , I think — whether Eleanor 's fiddling of her uncle into the see of Canterbury is presented to us for our approval , or the reverse . |
| 5 | If counter-demonstrators determined to thwart the right of a person to speak unpopular opinions resort to force as a result of what he is saying , the speaker is not for that reason alone to be regarded as using threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour ‘ whereby it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 6 | " A great player like Seve wants basically confirmation of what he is or is not doing right , " explained Bob . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | We have no mental conception of what it is like to perceive the world through antennae . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Until you have known it you will have no conception of what it is to be truly lonely . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's perfect because the character is the essence of what she is , ’ said producer Larry Brezner . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That it does so , so profoundly , is a vital part of what it is for . |
| 17 | To know this is part of competence with the concept of B ; part of what it is to know the meaning of ‘ B ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He never listens , just switches off , does the opposite of what he is told and underachieves in everything . |
| 22 | What , on the opposite of what it is now ? |
| 23 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 24 | Her photographic fictions and fantasies spin ‘ a story of what it is to grow up ’ . |
| 25 | Fury at the behaviour of the other , or at what the other symbolizes , can be a desperate attempt to get physically and emotionally closer by sharing the experience of what it is like to be battered . |
| 26 | Anyone who thinks that there must be , and that there must be a process of encoding a thought into a form of words , says so in spite of , and not because of , his experience of what it is to say things . |
| 27 | Lévi-Strauss ' point here , however , is simply the objection that Sartre defines ‘ man ’ in advance , predetermined by the particular experience of what it is to be a man in twentieth-century post-war French society . |
| 28 | We all have too much experience of what it is like for council tenants trying to exercise their supposed freedom for us to lie easily with the Government 's assurances on that matter . |
| 29 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
| 30 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |