Example sentences of "in [noun] [to-vb] what [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The problem for people at the USTA and the LTA is that they are too far removed from what is going on in tennis to know what is really required , ’ he says . |
| 2 | The cases form part of a series of actions relating to the various measures which the United Kingdom and Ireland took successively from 1983 onwards in order to combat what is termed in English as ‘ quota hopping , ’ that is to say the practice whereby , according to the United Kingdom , its fishing quotas are ‘ plundered ’ by vessels flying the British flag but lacking any genuine link with the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | It is never convincingly argued for ; the neurological and anthropological evidence renders it very doubtful ( see Miller 1971 : 92–120 ) ; it is patently there in order to support what is ultimately an idealist position , for the half-hidden premise of McLuhan 's argument is that there is an ideal human psyche , an essence , which is characterized by balance and interplay of senses , which may once have existed — in oral cultures — but which was destroyed by literacy ( a second Fall ) . |
| 4 | In practice this may be a very difficult exercise to undertake because in order to decide what is intrinsically just and reasonable the court will surely have to apply some rule of construction . |
| 5 | In order to describe what is common to all instances of the concept it is necessary to talk in terms of relations within ( or between ) particular totalities which , when taken together , prompt social change . |
| 6 | Or is it that inside all organizations there are , continuously , small discoveries to be made in order to improve what is being done — and that schools do not differ from other organizations ? |
| 7 | In this motion I have actually requesting that the closure be brought forward in order to relieve what is a dangerous traffic situation at the corner of causeway and . |
| 8 | At its most extreme , it may result in the court rewriting the terms of a lease in order to do what is fair and reasonable between the parties in circumstances which they did not foresee at the date of the lease ( Pole Properties Ltd v Feinberg ( 1981 ) 259 EG 417 ) . |
| 9 | Last week it was my turn to talk about my past ; in order to become conscious of my pain , in order to understand what 's happening now and why . |
| 10 | Thus , for example , in order to understand what is going on at the local outside-level on Lewis , it is necessary to examine the structure of the oil industry as a whole . |
| 11 | Imagine what it is like to sit through a meeting , go to the theatre or try to follow a further education class if it is essential to see the speaker 's face in order to understand what is said . |
| 12 | In order to understand what is " obvious " about sleep and dreaming it is necessary to examine some of the conventional ideological baggage which most Westerners carry about with them , and its historical origins . |
| 13 | In the examination of North Shields and Cramlington the interaction of base , civil society and state will be investigated in order to understand what is going on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They stated that none of the background reports or assessments had been carried out , and stressed that these are fundamentally necessary in order to determine what is in the children 's best interests . |
| 16 | This is a project which is currently being pursued by contemporary women artists who , unlike Bridget Riley perhaps , do not believe that art is necessarily free of gender : ‘ in order to discover what is retrievable from the abstract project , we must subject it to an interrogation that is neither submissive nor cynical ’ . |