Example sentences of "of [v-ing] what is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just a question of realising what is in your head , because I find I can usually hear roughly what I 'm trying to get to . |
| 2 | considers ways of using what is known to achieve the objective . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly one of the best ways the overseas student has of seeing what is required in British theatre training is to apply for one of the summer schools offered by the drama schools , and find out what it 's all about before committing him- or herself to a long and expensive stay . |
| 4 | In either case it is only a way of ascertaining what is the scope of the representation . |
| 5 | Realism offers a way of explaining what is observed , which , for example , allows us to account for observed socio-spatial polarization in residence in terms of the generative mechanisms of the capitalist mode of production . |
| 6 | The group might knock heads together but it does n't seem designed to do the equally important job of explaining what is happening to staff and patients . |
| 7 | These are two ways of expressing what is now a widely accepted notion . |
| 8 | The system involved a cyclical process of establishing what is done , how many people do it , what is achieved , linked to a number of performance indicators . |
| 9 | By laying down such standards the law is capable of defining what is expected of managers , of giving normative guidance on how they should fulfil their role . |
| 10 | It is no accident that the ingenuous and unpretentious Lady Clavering should have left to professionals the task of deciding what is , and what is not , good taste . |
| 11 | The problem of deciding what is relevant and important is at the centre of your task as a note-maker . |
| 12 | And the task of deciding what is ‘ new ’ falls to dictionary compilers who are struggling to catch the range of jargon , technical terms and ‘ sublanguages ’ that each year flow into usage . |
| 13 | We believe that women have their own needs and are capable of deciding what is best for them . |
| 14 | The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene . |
| 15 | Production oriented companies feel that the salespeople have the job of selling what is produced . |
| 16 | The word ‘ depression ’ is used in a non-clinical sense , and maybe sadness is a better way of describing what is going on . |
| 17 | This latter use raises the question however of describing what is implied as leading up to the realization of the infinitive event , that is , of justifying why the speaker should want to represent the infinitive incident to a support conceived as occupying a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 18 | Get emphasizes the obtaining of a result : ( 169 ) Quite apart from the difficulty of getting subjects to behave " naturally " in the course of a psychological investigation , there is the difficulty of getting what is significant in behaviour to exhibit itself clearly . |
| 19 | These can not be known at the time the decision is to be made and a means of stating what is known and what is assessed of the influence of future events on the commercial performance of the product , permitting comparisons between options , is needed . |
| 20 | These can not be known at the time the decision is to be made and a means of stating what is known and what is assessed of the influence of future events on the commercial performance of the product , permitting comparisons between options , is needed . |
| 21 | One therefore has the dichotomy of examining what is reasonable at one time ( ie the start of the contract ) , whilst also examining the ultimate purpose of the restraint at another ( ie the end of the contractual period ) . |
| 22 | In terms of doing what is expected of them I find they performed equally . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ This is also a story of courage and compassion ’ said Owen , objecting to the fact that Inouye had called it ‘ sad and sordid ’ : ‘ caring and sharing ’ — ‘ of doing what is right , and dying for a cause ’ . |
| 24 | All of these features have combined to create the contemporary problem ; hooliganism exemplifies to perfection the difficulty of disentangling what is new from what is old in social history . |
| 25 | All of these features have combined to create the contemporary problem ; hooliganism exemplifies to perfection the difficulty of disentangling what is new from what is old in social history . |
| 26 | Understandable though this might be , it still leaves the problem of clarifying what is meant by ‘ social representation ’ . |
| 27 | He raises large issues : how much does one need to know to understand and engage in the dialogues within society , and between past and present , on the simplest level of knowing what is being talked about ? |
| 28 | Mr. Collins said that any person whose interest are directly affected by a decision of a body acting in the public domain must ordinarily be given the opportunity of knowing what is alleged against him and of making representations to the decision taker . |
| 29 | It is not simply that cases of public library censorship appear to be on the increase ( although there is no substantial evidence to confirm this ) , but that the question of determining what is and is not censorship can be so time-consuming . |
| 30 | The Lonrho case establishes this as an exception but leaves the court with the problem of determining what is meant by an ascertainable class . |