Example sentences of "what it [verb] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the context of German Hellenism as a whole , what it meant was an ever-widening gulf between classics as a study and the creative art and life of the time . |
| 2 | Rudduck ( 1991:138 ) draws attention to the weakness of some private , classroom-focused styles of practitioner enquiry : " What it ignores are the wider social and political frameworks , beyond the classroom and the school , that shape the parameters of education in ways that teachers , with their eyes drawn to the minutiae of their own practice , too often fail to see . |
| 3 | What it discovered was a shock . |
| 4 | It has done so now in response to what it feels is a growing impatience from its members with the continuing reluctance of landowners to permit access to their property . |
| 5 | Almost on the same day that the third package Air Services Regulation was signed by the governments of the EEC , the state-owned Banque de Paris injected £128 million of cash into Air France in what it said was a ‘ normal ’ financial transaction . |
| 6 | THE United States yesterday threw its support behind what it said was a new effort by UN special Angola envoy Alioune Blondin Beye to revive Angolan peace talks . |
| 7 | THE United States yesterday threw its support behind what it said was a new effort by UN special Angola envoy Alioune Blondin Beye to revive Angolan peace talks . |
| 8 | Amnesty denounced what it said was the general failure by the Brazilian authorities to take action . |
| 9 | A Sudanese army spokesman on Dec. 20 criticized what it said was the Kenyan government 's support for " certain foreign circles and the colonialist churches " which he said were trying to bring together the divided rebel groups in the south and to persuade them to secede . |
| 10 | THE computer giant Amstrad yesterday announced what it said was the world 's first ‘ personal digital assistant ’ — a pocket-sized computer that allows the user to write directly on to the screen with a special pen . |
| 11 | What it describes is an enquiry process which enables a ‘ new ’ adviser to have all the relevant information about the client before accepting the assignment . |
| 12 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA last week introduced what it says is the ‘ last major component of the Distributed Computing Model , ’ an integrated software engineering environment called PCTE-based Integrated System Development ( ISD ) . |
| 13 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA yesterday presented what it says is the ‘ last major component of the Distributed Computing Model , ’ an integrated software engineering environment called PCTE-based Integrated System Development . |
| 14 | Despite Hewlett-Packard Co 's Image/SQL interface announcement ( UX No 416 ) , Wokingham , Berkshire-based consultancy firm Enterprise Computer Services Ltd is to distribute what it says is the world 's first development environment for providing transparent SQL access to disparate non-relational databases . |
| 15 | WH Smith took out an injunction against the five after it discovered what it says was a plot to launch a music chain to rival Our Price . |
| 16 | A thin dog sidled up to them , stopping just out of range of a kick , and looked at them with what it hoped was an appealing expression . |
| 17 | And this in turn suggests its own moral , which is a constant theme of structuralist poetics : The primacy of the system over what it represents is a conclusion that poetics derives from the extension of the Saussurean model to the sphere of the grammar of literature ; and now we find literature itself endorsing these conclusions . |
| 18 | On Aug. 24 the 13 parties of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Democratic Opposition condemned what it alleged was a recent army massacre of civilians , including some 12 schoolchildren , in Doba , in the south . |
| 19 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |
| 20 | At the second meeting of the judges , on Thursday , 21 st May , the atmosphere seems to have been very different to what it had been the previous week . |
| 21 | A FAMILY has put its home up for sale because of what it fears is a vendetta against their pet cats . |
| 22 | The army refused to become involved in what it maintained was an ‘ industrial ’ strike and , anyway , it was incapable of running the electricity industry . |
| 23 | The driver turns the engine over a couple of times ; says , ‘ What it needs is a little push . ' ’ |
| 24 | What it needs is an historian who is n't afraid to jazz things up a bit — sidestep the facts and move the goalposts . |
| 25 | The Mauritanian Workers ' Union ( MWU ) called a 48-hour strike for June 19-20 in protest at what it claimed was a deliberately manufactured deadlock in tripartite wage negotiations between the government , employers and the MWU . |
| 26 | On July 27 the US-based Middle East Watch human rights group detailed what it claimed was a " sub-culture of violence " among officers working under the Egyptian Interior Ministry , in particular in the State Security Investigation ( SSI ) unit . |
| 27 | The newspaper Noticias-El Diario printed photocopies of what it claimed was a 1961 report by Paraguayan police agent Pedro Prokopchuk to Antonio Campos Alum , the chief of political police . |
| 28 | On Oct. 20 Japan expressed regret over what it claimed was an alleged breach by France of an agreement not to disclose preparations for the shipment . |
| 29 | In considering the solicitors ' application the Legal Services Committee prepared a submission based on what it considered was the inadequacy of the advocacy and training proposals . |
| 30 | The environmental campaign group is to lobby shoppers on Saturday to highlight what it claims is a destructive and sometimes illegal assault on rainforests . |