Example sentences of "[verb] what [is] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them , the person of good character has what is said to be the imagination to live tranquilly , or literally ‘ the wizardry to live tranquilly ’ ( mariya adiunaku ) . |
| 2 | The peripheral control processor ( PCP ) of the CDC 6600 computer ( see 6.5 ) has what is referred to as a " replace add " instruction , where the result of adding the contents of the accumulator and a store location replaces both the accumulator and the store location . |
| 3 | The Asdex tokamak at Garching in West Germany has what is known as a ‘ poloidal divertor ’ and holds the record for the duration of a plasma in a tokamak — Asdex has sustained its plasma for 10 seconds . |
| 4 | Since the kite has a lift component to enable it to accelerate at certain positions around the hemisphere it also has what is known as an ‘ apparent wind ’ and it is this which sustains the motion within the flight envelope . |
| 5 | Greek , like many other Indo-European languages , has what is known as ‘ grammatical gender ’ . |
| 6 | Weighing just 7g it has what is claimed to be a new yoke-less magnetic system with a special allow core for the coil assembly ; this is claimed to eliminate irregularities in the flux . |
| 7 | Without recognising that knowledge of this kind is in play , we may misinterpret what is said about particular texts . |
| 8 | The explanation will also include what is related to this and is absolutely fundamental to scientific method , which is the experimental procedure of testing and establishing connections by the " varying of circumstances " , which is essentially the discovery of what is relevant and what is irrelevant to a given event . |
| 9 | Some churches have found it helpful to set out a few simple guidelines to indicate what is entailed in responsible church membership' . |
| 10 | And how do you hit the base of a thumb without dislocating what 's meant to be grasping a ski-pole for the next week ? |
| 11 | BDO Seidman has won what is believed to be the first successful countersuit by an auditor against a former client . |
| 12 | The latest CBI distributive trades survey , published today , underlined what is expected to be confirmed in tomorrow 's retail sales figures for January , namely that there was quite a good bounce-back from the unexpected fall in December . |
| 13 | However , one encounters what is known as the closure problem , a consequence of the non-linearity of the equation . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's my boy — I 've a right to know what 's become of him ! ’ |
| 15 | It is in the case of deeper congruences and possible congruences that the use of ‘ ideology ’ raises most problems , since if ideology is a major reference-point , or even point of origin , at such basic levels of social production and reproduction , it is difficult , as previously in some uses of ‘ culture ’ , to know what is left for all other social processes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You need to know what is required of you . |
| 18 | The conceptualizations of police work that are found in Easton not only fit what is known of police forces elsewhere , they parallel the portrayal of policing in the wider culture . |
| 19 | The purpose of these names is to establish what is known as brand identity . |
| 20 | Before discussing whether they have a place in children 's reading today , it is necessary to establish what is meant by ‘ the classics ’ . |
| 21 | There is definitely some collaborative work to be done here between the legal and records management people to establish what is required before computing personnel can hope to try and address this for us via their own skills or pressure on manufacturers . |
| 22 | Box will contain them as glass contains what is placed upon it . |
| 23 | The local council contains what is known as ‘ the Monklands mafia ’ . |
| 24 | And this depends on our having very powerful and general rules in our minds for relating what is said to the broader context . |
| 25 | I only say what is expected of me — ‘ |
| 26 | The introduction of inflationary expectations into the Phillips relationship created what is known as the expectations-augmented Phillips curve and this plays an important role in the monetarist approach to inflation . |
| 27 | The second requirement is that he should know what is said against him . |
| 28 | ‘ Then you will know what is required of you . ’ |
| 29 | The Department told us it would have to be done ‘ objectively ’ by the careers service ; the careers service tell us that a ) they do n't know what is required of them and b ) they have n't got the manpower to do it anyway . |
| 30 | No one can please all the people around them , partly because they will never know what is expected of them . |