Example sentences of "about what [pron] are [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our pest control customers are now being provided with considerable detail about what they are getting for their money , which is quite right and proper . |
| 2 | And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before . |
| 3 | In this way you are getting the students involved in thinking about what they are looking at , and you are also getting an indication of how they interpret what they see . |
| 4 | Most undergraduate courses claim at least to encourage students not only to learn , but to think about what they are learning ; to challenge the assumptions , to question the questions , to consider the alternatives . |
| 5 | These two incidents also show how young horses often seem to think about what they are learning and are eager to please . |
| 6 | Counsellors will by this stage start to form their own views about what they are hearing . |
| 7 | This reassures me that the band are clear about what they are trying to do , and it is far easier for me to get excited by someone coming in with a plan and an idea . |
| 8 | We know that , even given half-way decent funding , rehabilitation approaches and much of special education could never work well for our children because they start with low expectations , and are very unclear about what they are trying to achieve . |
| 9 | But experience has shown that it is possible to create elite , high-calibre long-term support teams if they are given the right leadership and training , an attractive physical environment to work from , good pay and conditions of service and , crucially , a set of realistic objectives about what they are trying to achieve . |
| 10 | This means that they should be clear about what they are to look for in the performance and how they are to judge these points . |
| 11 | They do n't plan to stand around while Mandela makes up his mind about what they are going to get . |
| 12 | 5 Students practise the new structure by talking about what they are going to do |
| 13 | If researchers have absolutely no hunches at all about what they are going to find , how can they possibly know what questions to ask ? |
| 14 | For these purposes teachers will need to keep samples of children 's writing in order to monitor its range and development over the course of a key stage ; and they will need systematic means of recording and appraising the ways in which pupils approach writing tasks , including talking about what they are doing and why . |
| 15 | Many people often walk past their destinations because their minds are thinking about this or that , but not about what they are doing . |
| 16 | The Suisse Romande Orchestra may still not occupy a position among the top rank of world orchestras , but at least they sound as thought they care deeply about what they are doing , as do the combined Lausanne and Chambre Romand Choirs . ( ) |
| 17 | The most damaging effect of the Education Reform Act would be if it snuffed out teachers ' belief that it is worthwhile thinking and talking about what they are doing . |
| 18 | The reality is that teachers do feel good about what they are doing , but that the occasions on which they do so are often conspicuous more by their rarity than their regularity . |
| 19 | Even if the ethos does permit them to check out how they are doing , it remains unlikely that it will encourage anything more than a superficial sharing of doubts about what they are doing : about the disparity between their hopes for teaching and the effects , or lack of them , that they and their colleagues seem to be achieving . |
| 20 | Below the surface there lies , for many teachers , a nagging sense of doubt and confusion about what they are doing , what they ought to be doing and what they are doing it for . |
| 21 | The schooled children may be aptly described as speaking explicitly when they say ‘ they are red ’ but they are not being as explicit about what they are doing as Greenfield , for instance , is attempting to be . |
| 22 | For example , both student teachers and student nurses are being expected to spend more time in the professional setting , and are being encouraged to appraise their own actions and to be explicit and articulate about what they are doing and why . |
| 23 | They learn by discovery and pretending , and they desperately need to talk about what they are doing while they are doing it . |
| 24 | We know that children develop mathematical concepts through manipulating objects and talking about what they are doing . |
| 25 | Providing opportunities runs through two aspects of management : unless colleagues are given the opportunity to understand the world outside education , unless they have the opportunity to look around and to come to some new conclusions of their own about what they are doing , the head will say that he or she is failing . |
| 26 | People are really ambivalent about what they are doing . |
| 27 | This is because the experiment is most suited to the assumptions that natural scientists have traditionally made about what they are studying . |
| 28 | just because researchers have strong feelings about what they are investigating , it does not automatically follow that their findings will be slanted in favour of their own beliefs and values . |
| 29 | One of the classic findings of media research in British election campaigns is Trenaman and McQuail 's ( 1961 ) assertion that ‘ the evidence strongly suggests that people think about what they are told … but at no level do they think what they are told ’ . |
| 30 | They want most of the time to feel confident about what they are tackling , even if they make a few mistakes , and basically optimistic about their own future and the future of education . |