Example sentences of "[to-vb] what is [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some churches have found it helpful to set out a few simple guidelines to indicate what is entailed in responsible church membership' . |
| 2 | It is in the case of deeper congruences and possible congruences that the use of ‘ ideology ’ raises most problems , since if ideology is a major reference-point , or even point of origin , at such basic levels of social production and reproduction , it is difficult , as previously in some uses of ‘ culture ’ , to know what is left for all other social processes . |
| 3 | Most media professionals appear to know what is expected of them in their various organisations , each of which has different political backers , and the media product tends to be created accordingly . |
| 4 | You need to know what is required of you . |
| 5 | The purpose of these names is to establish what is known as brand identity . |
| 6 | Before discussing whether they have a place in children 's reading today , it is necessary to establish what is meant by ‘ the classics ’ . |
| 7 | There is definitely some collaborative work to be done here between the legal and records management people to establish what is required before computing personnel can hope to try and address this for us via their own skills or pressure on manufacturers . |
| 8 | separate legal rules applying differently to different types of credit transaction should be replaced by a single set of rules covering equally all forms of ‘ security interest ’ ( how lenders try to secure what is owed to them , for example , by a right to repossess what is bought with the borrowed money ) . |
| 9 | separate legal rules applying differently to different types of credit transaction should be replaced by a single set of rules covering equally all forms of ‘ security interest ’ ( how lenders try to secure what is owed to them , for example , by a right to repossess what is bought with the borrowed money ) . |
| 10 | It will use secondary analysis of an existing database , collected in a longitudinal study of social support and childbearing , to explore what is meant by social support , both in terms of family and social networks and from the point of view of the health and welfare services . |
| 11 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 12 | The first task in attempting to enumerate the extent and nature of informal care is to define what is meant by the term ‘ carer ’ . |
| 13 | In Brutus v. Cozens , the House declined to attempt to define what is meant by insulting , and later courts have not sought to do what the House would not , although they have sought to give guidance as to what the term might mean . |
| 14 | Er y your use of the phrase self containment leads me to ask the question , which is that , well in my book it does n't necessarily mean the same thing as an integrated and balanced community , but I 'll put Mr Davis on notice to define what is meant by those adjectives . |
| 15 | For any attempt to define what is meant by spiritual is easily killed in infancy by pointing out how ridiculous such an attempt is : the spiritual automatically transcends all possible categories and definitions . |
| 16 | If the terms require the service of notices , it may be useful to define what is meant by 'service " . |
| 17 | With intended communication , the communicator wants to be that part of the environment to which the receiver is paying attention and also to design what is attended to — in order to produce some effect . |
| 18 | What this amounts to , in Corder 's words , is ‘ the accommodation of the structure of our linguistic syllabuses and teaching materials to fit what is known of the sequence of progressive complication of the approximative systems of the free learner . ’ |
| 19 | A much better way of achieving a composite filter with strong rejection outside the pass band is to combine what is known as an m-derived section with a constant-k section . |
| 20 | It also enables older people to challenge what is done for them , and to make provision more in line with their real needs . |
| 21 | In what looks strangely like an open invitation to the competition to plunder what is left of the 8870 base , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's Comet mix-and-match business management software , which previously ran only on the company 's Unix boxes and its proprietary 8870 and Quattro ranges , will soon run on IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co Unix machines too . |
| 22 | In what looks strangely like an open invitation to the competition to plunder what is left of the 8870 base , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's Comet mix-and-match business management software , which previously ran only on the company 's Unix boxes and its proprietary 8870 and Quattro ranges , will soon run on IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co Unix machines too . |
| 23 | Finally , to use what is said in Parliament for the purpose of construing legislation would be a breach of article 9 of the Bill of Rights as being an impeachment or questioning of the freedom of speech in debates in proceedings in Parliament . |
| 24 | One neat solution is to use what is known as a ‘ slip ’ coupling . |
| 25 | ‘ The defence of statutory authority to an action for nuisance was summarised in the speech of my noble and learned friend , Lord Wilberforce , in Allen v. Gulf Oil Refining Ltd. [ 1981 ] A.C. 1001 , 1011 as follows : ‘ It is now well settled that where Parliament by express direction or by necessary implication has authorised the construction and use of an undertaking or works , that carries with it an authority to do what is authorised with immunity from any action based on nuisance . |
| 26 | People respond to the taboo breaker in terms of feeling , ‘ Why should he , or she , be allowed to do what is forbidden to others ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The horse is too clever for its own good ! ’ is a frequent complaint when a horse evades or refuses to do what is expected of it . |
| 28 | If you fail to do what is required of you , prints will be sent to the KGB , to Major Tzann and one of your co-pilots at the base . |
| 29 | Survival International calculates that 100,000 people have been killed in Guatemala in the last 25 years and over a million forced to flee what is described as the brutality of the US-supported government there . |
| 30 | To illustrate what is meant by ‘ information flow ’ , consider some possible formulations of sentence ( 2 ) in the following extract from Stephen Hawking 's A Brief History of Time . |