Example sentences of "what is [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | Or are we able to exert freedom of choice regardless of what is determined by other factors ? |
| 3 | Such connection is what is stated by independent nomic conditionals and , of course , holds between any two things when it is true that if or since the first occurred , then even if any change logically consistent with either had also occurred , the second would still have occurred . |
| 4 | From the point of view of what is taught by public libraries in schoolchildren programmes , however , there is now a problem . |
| 5 | These tools of the trade may make planning possible , but they do not necessarily produce what is needed by Soviet society . |
| 6 | Appendix 1 explains what is entailed by competitive tendering . |
| 7 | Furthermore , what is meant by economic development has also changed . |
| 8 | The reduction of the concept of communication to comprehensible input , in association with the absence of any clear definition of what is meant by comprehensible or any criteria for knowing whether language has been comprehended or not , means that almost any approach to teaching can claim to have the blessing of the theory . |
| 9 | For any attempt to define what is meant by spiritual is easily killed in infancy by pointing out how ridiculous such an attempt is : the spiritual automatically transcends all possible categories and definitions . |
| 10 | What is meant by self-indexing files ? |
| 11 | In order to fully understand what is meant by Religious Education in the Catholic Secondary School it is necessary to refer to two other distinct , yet at times overlapping , concepts namely Evangelisation and Catechesis . |
| 12 | To point out what is meant by effective study . |
| 13 | And this little book , I do n't know whether you 've come across it , is a fairly technical description of what 's happening in different parts of the world , and what is meant by sustainable management of tropical crops . |
| 14 | That is , the depth of particular religions not only contains a clue to the meaning of ultimate reality , as Tillich maintains , but is the only means open to man to understand what is meant by ultimate reality , for the concept itself acquires its meaning from its use in a particular mode of discourse . |
| 15 | What is meant by political control of the police in a liberal democracy ? |
| 16 | In Brutus v. Cozens , the House declined to attempt to define what is meant by insulting , and later courts have not sought to do what the House would not , although they have sought to give guidance as to what the term might mean . |
| 17 | What is meant by quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect in Article 30 of the Treaty has been the subject of a whole series of decisions of the European Court to which the attention of the Court of Appeal ought to have been drawn . |
| 18 | The problems encountered with the notion of ‘ text ’ as the verbal record of a communicative act become a good deal more complex when we consider what is meant by spoken ‘ text ’ . |
| 19 | As an introduction to refreshing reading and study skills , Philip Burnard , lecturer in the School of Nursing Studies at the University of Wales College of Medicine , describes what is meant by experiential and student centred learning . |
| 20 | To illustrate more clearly what is meant by structural unemployment , consider a region within a country which has traditionally specialised in ship-building . |
| 21 | I intend to approach this problem piece by piece and in the final section ( section 1.6 ) I shall attempt to outline a general concept of what is meant by structural change . |
| 22 | Such figures depend on what is meant by sexual abuse ’ ( p.5 ) . |
| 23 | The statute — which authorizes interception on grounds of national security without defining what is meant by national security — is clearly much wider than the old Home Office guidelines — which authorized warrants on the narrower grounds of ‘ major subversive or espionage activity ’ . |
| 24 | It will use secondary analysis of an existing database , collected in a longitudinal study of social support and childbearing , to explore what is meant by social support , both in terms of family and social networks and from the point of view of the health and welfare services . |
| 25 | However opinions vary as to what is meant by social support , and how it can best be measured , although the extent to which an individual feels that they have someone to confide in appears to be important . |
| 26 | They are what is meant by indirect discrimination . |
| 27 | What is meant by informal organizations are those groupings which the employees themselves have developed in accordance with their own needs . |
| 28 | Most are in country areas of high amenity value which attract outsiders — anglers and tourists — with decided views about what is meant by clean water . |
| 29 | Clause 8 gives the haulier the right to dismiss an Overdrive employee , but is not an easy clause to understand ; for instance , what is meant by gross misconduct ? |
| 30 | This is , of course , what is meant by dramatic playing as it was defined in Chapter Three , the mode of dramatic behaviour espoused by Peter Slade . |