Example sentences of "to what is [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because there is no alternative local model of development , there is little resistance to what is imposed upon us , with its resulting social disintegration and violence . |
| 2 | What an evolutionist believes is totally and completely opposite to what is stated in this verse . |
| 3 | In a brief discussion of the use of tense in English and Brazilian academic abstracts , Johns ( 1991 ) points out that some verbs refer to what is stated in the academic paper itself ( these he calls indicative verbs ) , while other verbs refer to what was actually done in the research on which the paper reports ( these he calls informative verbs ) . |
| 4 | This apparently more hardline stance of the SOC was reinforced by Hun Sen , when in a speech on Nov. 24 he indicated that his government rejected the Security Council 's peace plan and " will not agree to what is decided in Paris " . |
| 5 | Any one else want to make any comments about this , or can I move on to what is headed in Mr 's criteria , area of no market demand , and one in which we had described , and it may well be coincidental , mean the same thing , be in a location where people want to live . |
| 6 | But such arguments are not applied to what is taught at school , though if we were sincere followers of J. S. Mill we should apply them . |
| 7 | On the other hand , removal of a functional group interacting with a residue other than His197 should lead to a decrease in affinity for the H197A mutant compared with the wild type , analogous to what is observed for the parent compound CP 96345 . |
| 8 | The aim has been to produce pictorial representations of a complete set of valence molecular orbitals for as many molecules as possible and to relate them to what is observed in the experimental world . |
| 9 | As with the other conventional signs mentioned , the repetition of lines and the distortion of round wheels to indicate that a vehicle is moving bear limited relation to what is perceived in the real world and their meaning has to be learned . |
| 10 | You will only find out what you need to know by really listening to what is said to you . |
| 11 | I shall certainly listen carefully to what is said on that matter and give it full consideration . |
| 12 | Gently but firmly explain your point of view and listen very carefully to what is said in return . |
| 13 | I occasionally wonder whether anyone in Brussels listens to what is said in the House , but my right hon. Friends have made it clear that Britain can not accept any defence arrangement that would weaken NATO or the Atlantic alliance , and that we can not accept any declaration of intent or prior commitment to a single currency . |
| 14 | A successful Home Secretary needs enough versatility and openness of mind to listen to what is said before making a choice between tinkering with the status quo and the more radical alternatives which are open to him . |
| 15 | Linked to this is the way the lecturer refers to what is written on the board or the object of the demonstration — something that may be done verbally or visually . |
| 16 | There are two open bothies on the route but contrary to what is written in some places , the farm at lonely Carnmore on the Letterewe estate is not inhabited except for part of the year . |
| 17 | Traditionally , the answer has been found in the study of the two main factors which were at issue in the years leading up to what is regarded as the moment of outbreak of war , the confiscation of the duchy of Aquitaine by King Philip VI of France in May 1337 . |
| 18 | And what I would like to ask in in this environmental age that we live in , for a benefit to the people on the A sixty one , for a vehicle every four point eight seconds instead of every three point five seconds , using your own figures , how can you justify and quantify the cost of the environmental damage that will be done to what is regarded as the finest visual attractive side of Harrogate . |
| 19 | Smell , too , is limited , probably to what is kept in the barn : horses , feed , manure , leather , and perhaps motor oil . |
| 20 | However , in the interests of Western European stability and its own financial position , the British government is perhaps still putting off the final offer — either British withdrawal or some form of power-sharing with catholic nationalists — in the hope of loyalists coming round to what is seen as a more reasonable position . |
| 21 | Such an approach may demonstrate to the satisfaction of some that no crime is involved , but it is surely most unsatisfactory to rest the response of the law to what is seen as a testing moral and philosophical issue on some semantic sleight of hand . |
| 22 | It is these ideas that lead to what is seen as juvenile delinquency . |
| 23 | But there has also appeared , in the past decade , a strong reaction against collectivism , in the shape of opposition to what is seen as excessive regulation of social life by public bureaucracies , and this has been translated in some countries ( notably in Britain ) into policies of privatization of public enterprises and services , with consequences that have themselves given rise to fierce controversy . |
| 24 | But resistance within the Treasury to what is seen as a potentially inflation-stoking measure could result in a delay allowing a consultative green paper before the December Budget . |
| 25 | They are not neutral with respect to what is seen to be the current orthodoxy . |
| 26 | It is n't safe to assume that the normal functions of a system are equivalent to what is lost after a lesion because the effects of a lesion may be masked by positive symptoms . |
| 27 | The mass inflow rate into the central cavity is small compared to what is lost by the bulge wind . |
| 28 | In the first place it is to be accepted that it is made in wide terms though it is not said that they are so imprecise that there is a doubt as to what is covered by the order . |
| 29 | A ‘ good ’ book needs to have meaning for the individual reader and it must bring meaning to what is experienced in our daily lives . |
| 30 | Are Chinese people 's experiences of racism different from but similar to what is experienced by those from other backgrounds ? |