Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] what [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just a question of realising what is in your head , because I find I can usually hear roughly what I 'm trying to get to . |
| 2 | That things remain unconscious , not because you never knew about them , but because they 're never brought into the relevant connections with other things that make you conscious of the thing in the sense of seeing what 's in it for Mrs you know , reports . |
| 3 | In addition , a continuation task will be used as a further method of assessing what is in the mind of the reader after reading a particular text . |
| 4 | ‘ They will write slurry into the nitrogen bill only when someone discovers a really practical way of showing what 's in it . ’ |
| 5 | So the writer of police procedurals is basically faced with the task of making what is in life dull into reading that is as far as possible exciting . |
| 6 | Whatever the original guidelines given them , goes the argument , the agents get drawn into doing what is in the best interest of those they are regulating — they are , wittingly or unwittingly , captured by the people they are supposed to be policing ( see , for example , Stigler , 1971 ) . |
| 7 | As John of Climacus said : ‘ The man who has come to know himself is never fooled into reaching what is beyond him . |
| 8 | When I was speaking t very very briefly erm to Ian before before I came down he said , well I 'm really not surprised , the the the continuing problem and difficulty in establishing what 's on the palette , as to whether it 's lawn feed and weed , lawn feed and , for example . |
| 9 | It is of the essence of that jurisdiction that the court has the power and the responsibility in appropriate cases to override the views of both the child and the parent in determining what is in the child 's best interests . |
| 10 | This data can quickly be transferred from one information system to another and can be combined and transformed in ways which might not otherwise be practicable ; furthermore , data held on computers is invisible and not directly intelligible so that people have more difficulty in knowing what is in the records or what is happening to them . |
| 11 | Questions are categorised as closed ( where teacher wants answer which is already in her/his mind ) and open ( where teacher is interested in knowing what is in pupils ' minds ) . |
| 12 | Record s of achievement record positive achievements and the student has a large say in selecting what is to be recorded . |
| 13 | We are living in a world of dwindling timber resources , and Gerwyn believes that we are going to have to turn back to using what 's around us . |
| 14 | I get up to seen what 's on it . |
| 15 | Transformational reformism is about changing what is into something very different . |
| 16 | I wan na see what 's on the other side . |
| 17 | Determined he 's gon na have what 's in that bucket is n't he ? |
| 18 | Popular culture gives us plenty of female verbal incontinence ( cf the Andy Capp joke : ‘ when two wives get together , who has the last word ? ’ ) and illogical women who ca n't keep to the point ( as a character in the soap opera Coronation Street comments , ‘ you might as well try to knit fog as follow what 's in a woman 's mind ’ ) . |
| 19 | So it was then a question of just sitting down with a blank sheet of paper and starting to draw , because a Designer thinks about structures and design only by doing it , by drawing what 's in his mind . |
| 20 | Any state is described by saying what is on what . |
| 21 | It is a form of brainwashing , or what that pioneer in the study of learning processes , Gregory Bateson , called corrective learning , that information-seeking activity whereby a person attempts to ‘ achieve a congruence between ‘ something in his head ’ and the external world … by altering what is in his head ’ — only in this case it is what is in Iago 's head , ‘ If thou dost love me ’ , Othello says to Iago , ‘ Show me thy thought ’ ; earlier he had said that Iago hesitated . |
| 22 | We 've really got ta start this project by thinking what is in the interests of the members . |