Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] what [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps LIMB has simply given librarians the opportunity to replicate what is available and to produce improved guides more quickly , but widespread duplication is still common . |
| 2 | But , perhaps sensing dangerous moral and political overtones , they add ( ibid. , p. 634 , quoting Taft ) : ‘ It is not the task of the criminologist to determine what is the major social good ’ . |
| 3 | It implies a certain commitment to the user and his or her needs , and it implies a particular kind of responsibility to ensure that the user has the skills to obtain what is needed : that is , to obtain the right information or material , in the right form , so that the user can benefit from it . |
| 4 | This last co-ordinate specifically enables the hearer to interpret what is said in the light of what has already been said . |
| 5 | An expensive colour photocopier is believed to have been used by the forgers to copy what is thought to have been a genuine blank MOT form . |
| 6 | Goldstein nevertheless warns of the bias in therapeutic transactions towards perceiving refusals as uninformed : ‘ refusals may therefore be used as a justification for challenging the capacity of the citizen to decide what is best for himself . ’ |
| 7 | To explain this reaction , I must first introduce some concepts that help the physicist to describe what is happening in an inversion layer . |
| 8 | Incompetence ( or incapacity ) in a child , it should be noted , depends not on age but on maturity and the capacity to understand what is involved in any decision . |
| 9 | If the child has the capacity to understand what is in the documents this must be explained to him . |
| 10 | A sniff at all the corners to see what 's new . |
| 11 | He pointed out that there would be nothing in the Act to meet what is itself a mischief frequently encountered today , namely , industrial espionage or obtaining information as to security details or other confidential information which may be stored on a company 's computer . |
| 12 | They just want the child to do what is asked quickly and dread a battle . |
| 13 | But when the parent is teaching the child to do what is asked , the parent needs to wait and check . |
| 14 | That will establish the lawfulness of governmental action by the Community to achieve what is proposed . ’ |
| 15 | It demands insight into the necessity of growing old , and the courage to renounce what is no longer compatible with it . |
| 16 | Such awareness provided another means for the obsessive anxieties of the establishment to be counterbalanced from within , and as Jacobi ( 1967 : 22 ) suggests , created the potential ability to look truths in the eye and ‘ the courage to renounce what is no longer compatible ’ . |
| 17 | We ask that they may have the wisdom to know and the courage to do what is right . |
| 18 | And the worst of it , in his view , is that no one has the courage to condemn what is happening , since ‘ cultural consensus can no longer distinguish between intolerance and discernment , opening the gates to an era of ‘ freedom without choice ’ ’ . |
| 19 | People come drifting into the room to see what 's up . |
| 20 | His argument seemed to be based fearlessly on the refusal to recognise what is already public knowledge about our plans . |
| 21 | The Developmental model that we discussed earlier suggested that the relationship between the leader and others will develop through various stages and it is up to the leader to know what is appropriate at any given time and with any given individual . |
| 22 | Those limits have created the need to ration what is available , as well as what ought to be developed . |
| 23 | ‘ You think I do n't have the right to know what 's being said behind my back ? ’ |
| 24 | The Women 's Section of , the African National Congress in Lusaka , supporting joint action , for the release of political prisoners and detainees , and against forced removals , issued a statement on International Women 's Day , calling upon women of the world to insist on the right to know what is going on in South Africa ; to intensify the campaign for sanctions ; to fight for prisoner of war status for captured combatants ; to support the Save the Patriots campaign and to remember Daisy Modise , the only woman patriot of the 62 prisoners on death row . |
| 25 | Great longing leaves the soul free to feel clearly and spurs the imagination to create what is most truly desired . |
| 26 | Des transmits that he found me , and I say that I 'm going over to the flats to see what 's happening , but both Des and the radio warn me off . |
| 27 | The opportunity this gives an incumbent to take a broad view is useful if he or she has the resources to know what is going on . |
| 28 | Partnerships , small scale as well as large , need a clear sense of purpose made explicit in objectives , they need a strategic plan for achieving these objectives which is communicated to and understood by those involved and they need a review and evaluation process built into the whole to determine what is being achieved . |
| 29 | I am a fly on the face of the Almighty , crawling over the surface to see what 's what . |
| 30 | These few words are perhaps sufficient to enable the student to understand what is involved in the interpretation of statutes . |