Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [Wh det] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to be at all selective about what is recorded or about what is viewed , you need to be able to edit in some way . |
| 2 | An Irish relative had told her that Ireland was now to be known as Eire but she knew nothing of the reasons for this , or of what was happening in Germany . |
| 3 | As an employer , you need to pay NI contributions for those employees aged 16 or over , who earn at or above what is known as the lower earnings limit , which stands at £52 a week from 6th April 1991 . |
| 4 | However , they do not have the final say on tat is included or on what is rejected . |
| 5 | The commonest ( although still rare ) type of statement is that if it appears that a Bill has passed both Houses and received the Royal Assent , no court of justice can inquire into the mode in which it was introduced into Parliament , nor into what was done previous to its introduction , nor what passed in Parliament during its progress in its various stages through Parliament ( see , e.g. , Lee v Bude & Torrington Junction Railway Co ( 1871 ) LR 6 CP 577 ; Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway Co v Wauchope ( 1842 ) 8 C1 & F 710 ) . |
| 6 | The first submission by Mr. Ashworth was that a public nuisance can not arise out of a lawful act , whatever its consequences , and as what is complained of here , namely heavy goods vehicles being driven along Medway and Bridge Roads , is a lawful act , no public nuisance can arise . |
| 7 | People are becoming responsible for their own happiness and health , and for what 's happening to the planet . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps Locke did not recognise the difference because he used the same word , ‘ idea ’ , both for what we would ordinarily call an idea and for what is imprinted in , or on , the mind , the ‘ sensation ’ . |
| 9 | On the contrary , I was mocked within the family for my ‘ posh ’ accent , and for what was considered to be my general childishness , especially as far as my sense of humour was concerned . |
| 10 | His response is interesting because it was immediate and for what was left out . |
| 11 | The transition from traditional management techniques to those based on personal computers revealed the need not only for good early planning but also for high-level commitment in directing what was to be implemented and for what were described as decision support systems . |
| 12 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 13 | These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | He will not actually begin treatment of any sort until he is convinced that you are completely comfortable , both with the concept as a whole and with what is going to take place during the particular session . |
| 15 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 16 | The means by which this is done is through the ‘ schemes of experience ’ , such as typifications , recipes , and other idealizations which members build up over time and into which are allotted new experiences and encounters , rendering the unknown into the known , the unfamiliar into the familiar . |
| 17 | Employees ' NI contributions are paid on earnings up to and including what is known as the upper earnings limit , which is £390 a week from 6th April 1991 . |
| 18 | Special interest rate for loans £1,500 and above which are paid by Direct Debit |
| 19 | This rim is marked off from the rest of the cranium by a groove or postoccipital sulcus which ends at the posterior tentorial pit on either side and along which are inserted the dorsal prothoracic muscles moving the head . |
| 20 | She received no support from the father for the child , and had to rely upon charity and from what is called ‘ the food bank ’ because she did not receive enough money from the welfare services to feed the child . |
| 21 | At No.2 is the Piccola Scala , the ‘ little Scala ’ , a small theatre that is part of the La Scala complex , and in which are performed modern , experimental works , rare operas and concerts of chamber music . |
| 22 | The UK Tax and Price Index was introduced in 1979 and aims to measure changes in real spending power which depend both on what is happening to retail prices and on what is happening to after-tax incomes . |
| 23 | As the screenshot on the left shows , you can also glean information on the standard light aircraft route to North America and on what 's happening at near-Continent airfields . |
| 24 | From my place on the gallery I could keep a watch on Claire 's door and on what was happening in the hall below . |
| 25 | He became styled ‘ seneschal of Aquitaine in August 1280 ( or senescallus principalis ) ; his actions were supervised by a small council at Bordeaux , and by what was described as the ‘ court of Gascony ’ . |
| 26 | Euthanasia , although technically illegal was practised in Holland , but under what were regarded as safeguards , including the explicit and continued request of the patient , the agreement of relatives and of two doctors one of whom must be a consultant . |
| 27 | Turning now to the income-related benefits , as the House knows , the uprating is , in this respect , based not on the full retail prices index , but on what is known as the Rossi index , which , in essence , is the RPI less housing costs but which we have this year brought more exactly into line with what the benefits are intended to cover by including in the calculation 20 per cent . |