Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] be happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all the time my cut thumb reminded me of what I must forget to stay sane ; all the time sick with worry about what 's happening to me so I have to keep ordering myself : Think about the invalid . |
| 2 | While certainly not denying the potential influence of certain characteristics of cities ( though they would dispute some , and point to others as being more effects than causes of urban decline ) , they argue that these factors have to be considered in the light of what is happening to industry itself . |
| 3 | It was called ‘ The Countryside in 1970 ’ because the mood of the time was predominantly one of unease and anxiety about what was happening to the countryside . |
| 4 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 5 | Second , there is the issue of what is to happen to Lord Denning 's tidal wave of European law , crashing the national barriers and submerging the legal and constitutional independence of the nation state . |
| 6 | Since the first signs of a contraction in the employment base of manufacturing in the 1960s , the question of what is happening to manufacturing in the UK has rapidly become one of central importance . |
| 7 | We have produced reports year after year expressing anxiety at what was happening to the British coal industry . |
| 8 | The aim is to present a brief overview of what is happening to historic pubs today , and to provide suggestions as to how this perceived threat to our old pubs can be effectively limited . |
| 9 | I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman can not see the broader picture of what is happening to the other units and that it is not an unfair arrangement . |
| 10 | Pascoe changed his mind about the coffee ; anything to distract his body from what was happening to it . |
| 11 | Recent mine closures and the proposed privatisation of British Coal is focusing attention on what is to happen to costly pumping activities . |
| 12 | At this point the short version abandons the formal prayer frames and opens out into uninterrupted prose in which meditation on the enormity of what is happening to him " schop the sonne & al is , of al gode in " [ schop : created ; : anything ] ( p.85 ) carries the narrative to the point where Christ leaves Jerusalem ; then the meditation on the sorrow of Mary modulates into the account of the death of Christ , the major stages of which are marked by cries of remembrance but unpunctuated by any suggestions for Latin prayer . |
| 13 | She tried to be a strength for her daughter , but was overwhelmed by the enormity of what was happening to them all . |
| 14 | Without a knowledge of what was happening to Germanic diphthongs and vowels in the Dark Ages , however , even a clever pupil at Oxford in those days would have done badly . |
| 15 | Then Jeremiah launched into a prayer of complaint about what was happening to him . |
| 16 | She has offered her plight as an example of what is happening to many small producers . |
| 17 | Some knew about the various methods of pain relief available , but others had no idea at all , and this made them feel even less in control of what was happening to them . |
| 18 | The Minister , however , does not give a damn about what is happening to people on the lowest incomes ; he does not even understand what is happening to local government . |
| 19 | Rather , I conclude by inviting all of us whose activism is shaped by our concern for what is happening to the other animals to make a renewed , conscientious , patient and determined effort to come together and forge a common agenda , even as we work , both as individuals and organisations , on projects that are uniquely our own . |
| 20 | The AD curve is a shorthand depiction in ( p , y ) space of what is happening to the IS and LM curves in Figure 5.4 as a result of falling money wages and prices . |
| 21 | Any thought of what was to happen to his family home in Belfast had to be shelved until a joint decision could be reached with his brother when he next came home on leave . |
| 22 | The speech therapist confirmed that Mr Y. had only limited understanding of what was happening to him . |
| 23 | Our understanding of what was happening to party politics under William and Anne can only be complete when we consider the wider world outside Westminster , which will be the subject of the following chapter . |
| 24 | The reality of what was happening to John either played on people 's own experience of terrible loss and final separation , or the fear of it , which haunts us all . |
| 25 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 26 | There is , however , another version of what is happening to the UK economy , one which looks towards services rather than manufacturing as the basis upon which the economy will be re-established . |
| 27 | Of course , months earlier , I had dully taken on the likelihood of major upheaval , on account of what was happening to John 's skin . |
| 28 | This kind of teaching , it was argued , implicitly if not explicitly , was unacceptable because it would lead to an undermining of loyalty to the nation and government in minds too tender truly to comprehend the import of what was happening to them . |
| 29 | But children do not possess a social analysis of what is happening to them , or around them , so the landscape and the pictures it presents have to remain a background , taking on meaning later , from different circumstances . |
| 30 | These writers , of whom Marx ( 1818–83 ) , Weber ( 1864–1920 ) , and Durkheim ( 1858–1917 ) are usually regarded as the most important , were essentially theorists , who based their analysis of what was happening to the rapidly changing European societies of that time on evidence from historians and other sources rather than on their own original research . |