Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh det] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead there is an attempt to consolidate what is already known . |
| 2 | ‘ The problem for people at the USTA and the LTA is that they are too far removed from what is going on in tennis to know what is really required , ’ he says . |
| 3 | People at the USTA and LTA are too far removed to know what is really required — Glenn William |
| 4 | To be successful at meetings you need to know what is really going on , or in other words what is below the surface . |
| 5 | There are worlds of feeling to be gently explored in seeking to provide what is really needed . |
| 6 | Since then , it has come to designate what is clearly perceived as a property in its own right , which , when used in an adjective , is ascribed to the accompanying noun ( or , strictly , to the entity that is its referential locus ) . |
| 7 | Now this means that erm putting it in its simplest way that for any of the districts in North Yorkshire and for Harrogate and if I may presume to say so in Selby in particular where the need is greatest , the local authorities must have the ability to designate what is provocatively called green field land , if they so wish in their local plan , proper consultations and strategic policies , they must have that freedom to do that if they are to be able to offer in their district land which will prove attractive to erm employment generating uses . |
| 8 | One aspect of the landscape revolution which this entailed appears to have been major drainage works , which drastically modified the stream between the two villages , to create what is now known as the Maxey Cut . |
| 9 | I pause , to wonder what is here inferred . |
| 10 | In order to achieve this the colonial authorities had to engineer a switch from subsistence production of basic food crops to the production of cash crops for the international market and to replace what is often termed the ‘ natural ’ economy of non-industrial societies with the ‘ money ’ economy of industrial societies . |
| 11 | The programme attempts to reflect what is actually happening . ’ |
| 12 | The alternative is to have the whole process done in open court , with the defendant there to hear what is actually said . |
| 13 | This analysis does much to elucidate what is often dismissed as Nkrumah 's plunge into Communist ( or was it Fascist ? ) dictatorship . |
| 14 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 15 | Just as it is almost impossible to apply what is now called the ‘ Japanese ’ system of management to other parts of the world , because of the differences of culture and background of the people who are working in industry , so it is equally unlikely that the particular , precise ways that I have found so useful will have the same application to others ; Nevertheless , since I have spent so much of my life developing these ideas it may be that some of my experience will hit a chord of recognition or cause others to reflect or contemplate . |
| 16 | The best scheme , by far , is to do what is normally done , ie. , write a bit image file in terms of the resolution available at the time it is created . |
| 17 | The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training . |
| 18 | This brings some benefits through musical cross-fertilisation between the cathedral and the wider community , but the cathedral does not always get the full benefit of one who is employed to do what is commonly regarded as a full-time job , and this at a time when the Church needs from its organists not only the highest musical expertise but also liturgical knowledge and a readiness to take some part in the running of the cathedral . |
| 19 | We went to Mozambique and asked Mozambican journalists to write and Mozambican artists and photographers to illustrate what is really happening in their war- and famine-torn country . |
| 20 | I 'd like that allowance to be related very much to how much everybody thinks the work 's going to be er , going to cost which is initially worked out by the estimator . |
| 21 | You can see this if you break away from the discipline of the computer 's own official operating system , and write your own private programs to decipher what is actually written on every sector of the disc . |
| 22 | Indeed , this influence of aroma on the psyche has led some aromatherapists to practise what is now called ‘ psycho-aromatherapy ’ , whereby oils are used solely as mood altering substances . |
| 23 | THE world of public relations has plenty of detractors but Michael Murphy , the founder and chairman of PR Consultants Scotland , has managed both to make himself wealthy and to run what is widely regarded as Scotland 's most professional home-grown consultancy , as well as its largest . |
| 24 | By so doing , it will be possible to maximise what is euphemistically called the ‘ you ’ or ‘ u ’ benefits . |
| 25 | And so the house today is ready to face the future , and new generations of young and old will continue to make the special journey from all corners of the earth to see what is justifiably called the most wonderful dolls ' house in the world . |
| 26 | Workshops , day schools , short and more intensive courses about women 's literature and history and psychology and health , for example , have become a feature of every self-respecting liberal studies programme ; whilst courses in self-defence , assertiveness training , women 's sexuality , welfare rights , peace studies and feminist politics have helped to reconstitute what is usually defined as a relevant curriculum for women . |
| 27 | Difficult to know whether er Rupert Murdoch will want to sustain what is obviously going to be a fairly bruising battle for 3 years . |
| 28 | Role-playing was crucial to preserve what is often called tatemae , defined by one author as ‘ the presentation of an appropriate face for any particular situation ’ . |
| 29 | The really important provision is s 3(2) ( b ) ( i ) , restricting exclusion of liability to perform what is reasonably expected of the party concerned under the contract . |
| 30 | Consideration of this question requires us first to examine what is generally understood by conservatism . |