Example sentences of "what is [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Atapeuerca skeletal sample is large by the standards of any other Middle Pleistocene hominid site , so it provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the internal morphological and metrical variation of what is assumed the represent a penecontemporaneous sample of individuals of different ages and sex . |
| 2 | Choreographers should understand that counting beats or what is called the measure of the music is not dance rhythm . |
| 3 | The constant use of what is called the ‘ feminine cadence ’ is a particular rhythmic feature . |
| 4 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 5 | What is called the ‘ aesthetic attitude ’ or interest in an object , is sometimes described as ‘ disinterested interest ’ . |
| 6 | This was the issue of the steadily rising costs for what is called the ‘ back end ’ of the uranium fuel cycle — the reprocessing of spent fuel , the handling of wastes at the Sellafield works and the dismantling of the reactors at the end of their lives . |
| 7 | There have been moments during the argument in this case when it appeared to be suggested that the court had to do with a grave case involving what is called the right of public meeting . |
| 8 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 9 | The natural physiological mechanisms put us in a state of alert and prepare us for what is called the fight-or-flight response . |
| 10 | There is little said about what is called the messianic role of TM in the book , apart from a token two pages . |
| 11 | Scientific Systems makes what is called the Exploded View Computer , a £150 machine which displays its workings on a board of coloured lights . |
| 12 | A two-year research project has produced what is called the home bus system , a set of standards for wiring up the home with coaxial cable . |
| 13 | Roith is particularly proud of what is called the teaching company scheme . |
| 14 | In what is called the Coriolis effect , the northward moving sea water is pushed to its right , while the southward fresh water moves to its right . |
| 15 | The cruise missile , 6.4 m long and weighing 1207 kg at the start of its flight , steadily drones at 880 km/hr toward what is called the initial timing control point . |
| 16 | Hypnosis takes place in what is called the Alpha state ( the subconscious mind ) . |
| 17 | What is called the ‘ moral sense ’ is on this account being able to recognize that if , even against my present will , I let myself become aware of how someone in trouble feels , I would be moved to help , and that I ought not to close myself to this awareness . |
| 18 | Around this swathing , for about two-thirds of the length of the trunk from the hips upward , were several turns of a well-made twisted cord , fastened in what is called the half-hitch , in good preservation . ’ |
| 19 | In this country civil litigation is based on what is called the adversarial system , and this means the court only decides issues presented by the parties . |
| 20 | In engineering it is usual to test materials for toughness by means of a routine impact test of what is called the ‘ Izod ’ type . |
| 21 | So the climate conforms almost totally — to the east of the Date Line — to what is called the planetary weather system , the theoretical system of winds and pressures that would exist if the earth was a near-perfect spheroid unencumbered with continents , mountain chains and other complicating nuisances . |
| 22 | We all know the main parts of the Church 's year : Advent , Christmas , Lent , Easter , Pentecost and what is called the ‘ ordinary time ’ , but how are these various seasons presented in the liturgy , and how can we reflect the seasons of the year in our prayer , worship and music ? |
| 23 | The power of the High Court to hear other types of actions , such as contract and tort claims , belongs to what is called the ‘ original jurisdiction ’ of the court . |
| 24 | That is not to say that we shall take dispositional mental facts or what is called the unconscious or the subconscious to be " another realm of consciousness " that we shall suppose there is consciousness and then inaccessible consciousness and then the brain , the latter involving dispositional mental facts . |
| 25 | This region is threaded along what is called the path of stationary action , since the latter is by definition the path from which small changes of trajectory produce negligible changes of action . |
| 26 | In essence this is the answer of what is called the Copenhagen Interpretation . |
| 27 | Similarly , for those workers moving off unemployment pay and into work , the effects of tax , loss of income support , plus the additional cost of going to work , have given rise to what is called the ‘ unemployment trap ’ . |
| 28 | The ratio of a person 's net income when in work compared to their income on benefit is measured by what is called the ‘ replacement ratio ’ . |
| 29 | Now the major emphasis needs to shift to what is called the supply side , and this change in emphasis is the last selective measure the Government should take . |
| 30 | The first is to change what is called the earnings disregard . |