Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [is] [verb] in " 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 | They believed practicalities like how parents are supposed to know what is happening in the nursery should be clarified , and that there were records available for parents to look at and in some cases contribute to , in connection with their own child and with the nursery in general . |
| 3 | ‘ I have my duties , ’ replied Dr Neil , assuming a pompous voice , ‘ and one of them is to know what is happening in the world . |
| 4 | You want to know what is happening in a Third World trouble-spot . |
| 5 | Management now requires a larger perspective than in the past : the school manager needs to know what is happening in higher education , in technical education and in the vocational sphere . |
| 6 | I 've never felt threatened by these images and certainly never felt compelled to buy what 's represented in the advertisements . |
| 7 | In a sense his experience supports his theory , but also mocks it , for the ability to perceive what is happening in London when you are in Oxford is not true spiritual knowledge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been trying to elicit what is happening in Scotland . |
| 10 | Is there also something to do what 's happening in Eastern Europe . |
| 11 | This last co-ordinate specifically enables the hearer to interpret what is said in the light of what has already been said . |
| 12 | I 'm turned out of the house where I was born whether I want to go or no , the house and the business are handed over to … to that woman , and I have to share what is left in a joint legacy with Francis ! ’ |
| 13 | The interpretation of culture and even the ability to understand what is happening in the society under scrutiny as well as the need to grapple with political or ethical questions are all endless and fundamental problems of the moment ( Phillips 1973 : 78 ) . |
| 14 | Readability implies that a particular target readership has the experience — the visual , intellectual , and emotional experience — to identify the detail in pictures , to understand what is happening in pictures , and to have some understanding of what is happening ‘ beyond ’ the pictures ( atmosphere , psychological states , what is being demonstrated in an informative illustration ) — in other words , what part the pictures play in the total book , what they contribute . |
| 15 | Instead we are talking about a series of complex configurations of politics , economics and ideology that recursively interact to guarantee that it is not possible to understand what is happening in the local economies of Glasgow , Liverpool or Birmingham in the UK or Baltimore , New York or Toronto in North America without reference to inner city policies wedded to a particular form of symbolic , frequently spectacular , regeneration . |
| 16 | To understand what IS happening in the Royal Family , TODAY has carried out extensive research . |
| 17 | If we want to know what is happening to the church we need to understand what is happening in the secular world at large . |
| 18 | In order to understand what is happening in that country we have to see its internal developments as the effects of what is happening to the international economy as a whole . |
| 19 | Despite the fact that modern history grows old within a week , I commend that book to people who want to understand what is happening in that part of the world . |
| 20 | But we also want people to understand what is happening in places like Latin America so they have a better awareness of why Oxfam is trying to help . |
| 21 | Burnard goes on to mention some of the skills involved : the ability to listen ( to the words but also noting volume , pitch , eye movements and related body language ) ; ability to offer free attention ( to note and accept , not analyse and interpret ) ; to suspend judgement ( to refrain from categorising as good/bad , right/wrong ) ; and to control what is said in reply and how it is said , with a facial expression which is genuine , not mechanical . |
| 22 | To explain this reaction , I must first introduce some concepts that help the physicist to describe what is happening in an inversion layer . |
| 23 | A macroeconomic model by its very nature must be highly simplified since its purpose is to simulate what is happening in the economy as a whole . |
| 24 | We will have a different attitude , we 'll bear to watch what is happening in competitive tendering and to ask questions and to get the right the facts on competitive tendering because we found a lot of these round the competitive tendering do n't you , do n't you worry and we ai n't finished with it yet I can tell you and also we have ev , the people who are , the in house , walking in the house , have a right to have some protection from it , to see that when we dole out those contracts that it least they are genuine and they 've got a someone to see that that their interest is looked after . |
| 25 | A publisher or distributor may very well be unaware of the contents of what he is circulating , although he might be thought to have some obligation to ascertain what is contained in what he is peddling . |
| 26 | ‘ I can hardly believe so much came from just two schools — I hate to think what is lying in basements around the country , ’ Alistair said . |
| 27 | The first is to locate what is happening in the NHS to a broader ideological , economic , social and political context , and the second is to explain in some detail how the reforms have been implemented and what their current status is . |
| 28 | The second , by contrast , is a striking use of ministerial authority to influence what is taught in the schools and is indicative of the assertive pursuit of government policy to wield such influence . |
| 29 | It 's best run full screen , as well , since running it in a window seems only to give you a partial view of the full-screen image , and no scroll bars appear to allow you to see what 's happening in the bits that are n't shown . |
| 30 | At half past eight she will go downstairs to see what is happening in the kitchen , to see if Charles is in his place , to see if any of her children or stepchildren have yet descended , to prepare to receive her guests . |