Example sentences of "of what is [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly of course there are opportunities and limitations to your , the resources that you have and I 've mentioned resources before , they can be economic , military , your education system erm you know at the moment the government 's expanding higher education , going up , well we 've , we 've touched already I think thirty percent now in higher education one of the reasons for that is not just to , for self-fulfilment for those who are erm involved in higher education as I 'm sure you 're all self-fulfilling yourself here today , it 's because of what is perceived to be a national need for a highly educated workforce . |
| 2 | Most importantly , John Smith has finally backed moves to rid the party of what is perceived to be the biggest unwanted legacy remaining of its heritage , the voting power of the trade unions . |
| 3 | However , while it may be easy to accept that girls are treated differently from boys in schools , the crucial issue of what is taught in schools may be more complex and controversial . |
| 4 | From the point of view of what is taught by public libraries in schoolchildren programmes , however , there is now a problem . |
| 5 | Let us use SENSE to refer to the basic logical , conceptual , paraphrasable meaning , and SIGNIFICANCE to refer to the total of what is communicated to the world by a given sentence or text . |
| 6 | The LTA magazine sells less than 10,000 copies in newsagents , and is subsidised through LTA membership fees to the tune of what is believed to be nearly £250,000 . |
| 7 | In an attempt to redress some of this balance , FlyPast has undertaken the compiling of what is believed to be the most comprehensive list of surviving World War Two Japanese aircraft yet published . |
| 8 | Certainly the recent discovery of what is believed to be a fifth example , at Trelleborg in Skåne , may add significantly to our knowledge . |
| 9 | If its editors can elicit combative prose from a wider range of directors , future editions could yet provide an antidote to the star-struck hype that makes up most of what is written about the movies . |
| 10 | Much of what is written about education seems to assume , with the best possible motives , that only what they get from their schooling , influences , or can ‘ make ’ or ‘ save ’ , young people . |
| 11 | Critics , of course , argue that even with the best will in the world British Coal can not replace much of what is destroyed in getting the coal out of the ground . |
| 12 | The most primitive people , as we have seen , have a clear sense of what is owed to them in social and quasi-commercial transactions . |
| 13 | Governments can assist the Church greatly in the execution of its important office if , in laying down their ordinances , they take account of what is prescribed by divine and ecclesiastical law , and if penalties are fixed for offenders … |
| 14 | Regardless of your area of specialisation , the old epithet of ‘ tried and trusted ’ has been replaced by experimentation and sometimes cursory evaluation of what is achieved by one approach to a nursing procedure over another . |
| 15 | Or are we able to exert freedom of choice regardless of what is determined by other factors ? |
| 16 | I have never thought that the EC was intrinsically or automatically good or bad , as much depends on the effect of what is decided on our constituents and , indeed , on the people of Europe as a whole . |
| 17 | This was particularly evident in the delivery of personal services , an important area for disabled people because the body is the principal site of oppression , both in terms of cultural undervaluation and in respect of what is done to it ( Abberley , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | Most workers have no idea of what is done with ‘ their ’ savings , even in the case of pension funds which are not farmed out to the merchant banks for management . |
| 19 | The criticism is then seen as being political and if the electors of Greater London disapprove of what is done in their name by their representatives , the remedy lies in their hands at the next election . |
| 20 | Like so many folk customs , the reality of what is seen on the superficial level is obviously a little different . |
| 21 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 22 | Over in Water Ross the deer are just part of what is seen as the larger problem of who is in charge , and who makes decisions about wild places . |
| 23 | This literature , whilst being mindful of the ordinary business cycle of boom and slump , growth and recession , is especially mindful and critical of what is seen as the increasing coincidence between the five-yearly election cycle and the rhythm of the economy . |
| 24 | Again , still pictures can provide only a limited impression of what is seen in motion , but Figs. 21.18 and 21.19 illustrate important aspects . |
| 25 | By way of abbreviation of what is stated by the independent conditionals in ( 5 ) , cc can be said to have necessitated e , and e can be said to have been necessary to cc . |
| 26 | ( A ) is part of what is stated by stating that rain is making the balcony wet , or causing the balcony to be wet . |
| 27 | ( B ) is part of what is stated by stating that rain would make the balcony wet . |
| 28 | For this reason it seems best to concentrate upon the Mustakimzade tradition in order to be able to set the Katib Celebi tradition against the background of what is felt to be a more probable account of the origins of the Muftilik . |
| 29 | The long-overdue squeeze on the public-sector workforce will save some more , though there are reports that unpublicised redundancy payments are eating up much of what is saved in wages . |
| 30 | And if the recording remains sadly dim and dated noting can lessen the impact of what is re-created as an elemental game of tag , each player in hot pursuit of the other . |