Example sentences of "[prep] what is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sports doctors at a conference in Austria have concluded that female competitors produce better results in sport after what is daintily referred to as a ‘ turbulent amorous event ’ . |
| 2 | Considerations such as these would seem to lead inevitably towards what is often called a ‘ representational theory of the mind ’ . |
| 3 | Considering what is already known about muscle , it makes good sense . |
| 4 | Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed . |
| 5 | While Huntington has identified much of what is generally understood as conservative thought there is one aspect , which is of particular importance for our task , which he seems to underemphasize . |
| 6 | In other words , Britain has been ruled by a government of what is generally regarded as the normal British kind — a single-party government with a majority in the House of Commons , capable of getting its measures on to the statute book without open or tacit agreements with any other party — for only 54 of the 84 years of this century . |
| 7 | The popularity of the area , which attracts some 2000 hired boats and 3000 private craft in the summer months ( Crawford 1985 ) , is gradually causing the impoverishment of what is generally considered to be one of Britain 's most attractive wetland areas . |
| 8 | Again this is a distortion of what is generally happening in the courts , where sentences are lighter than this average , so newspaper readers have contrasting images of many acquittals and many long sentences . |
| 9 | It is these positive examples of what is generally taken to be a negative force that have given rise to such concepts as ‘ white ’ ( i.e. good ) witchcraft ; they are part of our European tradition and lend a certain credence to Margaret Murray 's exaggerated presentation of a satanic underground cult of evil co-existing with orthodox Christianity . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed this selection of propositions reads like a summary of what is generally taken to be de Man 's contribution to the theory of language . |
| 11 | Defenders of camp and machismo point out that they are parodic critiques — in the first case of what is allegedly insulted ( femininity ) , in the second of what is allegedly aped ( masculinity ) . |
| 12 | Defenders of camp and machismo point out that they are parodic critiques — in the first case of what is allegedly insulted ( femininity ) , in the second of what is allegedly aped ( masculinity ) . |
| 13 | What occasions might be suitable , however , are not clearly apparent , and are certainly not part of what is conventionally regarded as diagnosis and/or medical decision-making . |
| 14 | Yet without a secure nation-state the scope for development of what is conventionally identified as social policy is severely limited . |
| 15 | Any enquiry into what is in the minds of others is not only an exploration of what is consciously expressed by people but is also about interpreting what is unconsciously believed . |
| 16 | Examining Groups are encouraged to extend the scope of what is traditionally regarded as the ‘ canon ’ of English Literature in recognition that awareness of the richness of cultural diversity is one of the rewards of the study of literature : ‘ The majority of texts studied must be literary texts originally written in English which may , for example , include American and Commonwealth writing , but works in translation may also be included . |
| 17 | If it is the case that what teachers need to know , and to experience , can not be continued within the limits of available time , then either that time must be extended , or some part of what is traditionally included must be curtailed or omitted or postponed to in-service training . |
| 18 | This is not just a matter of what is traditionally thought of as ‘ social policy ’ . |
| 19 | This anthropocentric view and attitude is one facet of what is frequently identified as the realism of the fabliaux . |
| 20 | In both cases we seem to be dealing with a subordinated racism which becomes ‘ common sense ’ as a result of its articulation through a dominant but non-racist ideology of competitive individualism — a situation which is the exact opposite of what is normally argued ! |
| 21 | It must be stressed , in this connection , that the ‘ poetic ’ text in question is not necessarily a part of what is normally described as poetry , but can be any form of literature that possesses aesthetic or artistic properties . |
| 22 | In the South East developable land is scarce and there is a powerful environmental lobby ranged against further development of what is already perceived as a congested and overheated local economy . |
| 23 | To be European in Italy is a logical extension of what is already assumed to be one 's natural multiple identity within a family , a city , a region and a nation . |
| 24 | Are examination syllabuses seen as an unwelcome intrusion into the normal pattern of teaching in those subjects , or are they a natural extension of what is already happening ? |
| 25 | Riderhood 's daughter , Pleasant , is an unlicensed pawnbroker in a very small way of business : ‘ possessed of what is colloquially termed a swivel eye … |
| 26 | This could have taken the burning core through the concrete base of the reactor into the ground , a version of what is colloquially described as the ‘ China syndrome ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ I spoke of what is ordinarily called morality . |
| 28 | The workforce at France 's most successful car manufacturer has rejected an earlier management offer of a 1.5 per cent pay rise and , in the face of what is widely seen here as management intransigence , the government reluctantly got involved in the private sector dispute yesterday evening , announcing that it would appoint an official conciliator . |
| 29 | This is true of diverse consumer and household services and the harvesting of farm crops , and is equally true in those industries that deploy workers on assembly lines , where labour cost is a major factor in the price of what is finally produced . |
| 30 | But Famlio did n't take long to see other possibilities , in the established traditional of what is ironically known as protection . |