Example sentences of "what [pers pn] is [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every bride looks beautiful — this is partly because of what she is wearing and partly because she is usually glowing with happiness . |
| 2 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 3 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 4 | In each case , the child must not only find a way of getting the adult to notice the object , but she must do this in such a way that the adult is aware of what she is doing and why she is doing it . |
| 5 | As Carolyn observes : ‘ I 'm not a terribly spiritual person but I do believe that she was meant to do what she is doing and she certainly believes that . |
| 6 | I have the right to know what she is doing and , if she is having an affair , it has got to stop because it is driving me out of my mind . ’ |
| 7 | But we 're grateful to Eileen for what she is doing and will continue to do and we 're grateful to John for what he intends to do erm for three years at any stage wha at any stage in which they choose . |
| 8 | The cheesemaker has the best control over his cheese if he is able to use the milk from his own flock or herd — he then knows exactly what he is getting and where the animals have been grazed as the type of grass and subsoil contributes much to the flavour of the milk and then the cheese . |
| 9 | An outsider , too , can often distinguish between a child ‘ lost ’ in what he is doing and a child intent on ‘ showing ’ what he is doing . |
| 10 | The important thing for the pastor who sometimes directs and sometimes counsels is to know what he is doing and when . |
| 11 | Library education will be more effective if the student understands what he is doing and why he is doing it — that is , if new facts can be related to existing knowledge . |
| 12 | To drive a London black cab , you have to pass stringent geographical and driving tests , so you can be sure that any London cabbie knows what he is doing and where he is going . |
| 13 | He never listens , just switches off , does the opposite of what he is told and underachieves in everything . |
| 14 | John Cole , Skelmersdale : ‘ Morrissey obviously believes what he is saying and is brave enough to say it whatever the consequences . |
| 15 | Szasz is putting the position at its most extreme , but I recognise the truth in what he is saying and , apart from his implication that the definers are acting with conscious deliberation , I think he is right . |
| 16 | The Registrar advises that if the data user is satisfied that the child understands what he is asking and is acting on his own volition his request must be obeyed . |
| 17 | It arises from the failure of the lecturer to tell the class in advance what he is to discuss and from the student thus being unable to read in advance the relevant pages in the textbooks . |
| 18 | He 's forgotten what it is to sit and hold hands among the buttercups . |
| 19 | We may find the latter is the more elusive and the more central question , which opens out into what it is to like and to love , what it is to be content , and what it is to be happy . |
| 20 | Most writers of whatever kind know what it is to write and to discover in the process that someone else seems to be standing by . |
| 21 | In a sense this is what it is to become and experienced teacher rather than a novice . |
| 22 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 23 | His uncertainty principle ( discussed in detail in Chapter 5 ) says that if I know where an electron is I have no idea of what it is doing and , conversely , if I know what it is doing I do not know where it is . |
| 24 | Similarly the anglers that can control their terminal tackle , and not only that , but know what it is doing and what they are trying to do with it , with a greater degree of accuracy and confidence , will be winners . |
| 25 | You can drive along a motorway for years and see nothing , but once you learn the quivering shape above the verge is a hovering kestrel looking for voles in the short grass , it becomes difficult to pass a kestrel ever again without mentally noting what it is , what it is doing and why it is there . |
| 26 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 27 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |