Example sentences of "[pron] it [is] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jean Grimshaw looks at some of the ways in which feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be autonomous , and the relationship between these conceptions and philosophical ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 32 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 33 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 34 | People often become frustrated if they are uncertain about why a meeting has been called , what it is for and why they are there . |
| 35 | All the work in this approach must go into a persuasive account of what it is for reasons to be conclusive . |
| 36 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 37 | Discussion of justification , of what it is for a belief to be justified , begins with this theory ; other theories will be described in terms of their relation to or divergence from this one . |
| 38 | The argument also assumes ( b ) that I can understand what it is for others to have mental states . |
| 39 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 40 | And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning : |
| 41 | In fact , this means that our answer will amount to an account of what it is for a non-observation statement to be significant , and what it is that makes one such statement mean something different from what another one means . |
| 42 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 43 | VP is about what it is for a sentence to be significant rather than meaningless , while MP is about what it is for a sentence to have one meaning rather than another . |
| 44 | VP is about what it is for a sentence to be significant rather than meaningless , while MP is about what it is for a sentence to have one meaning rather than another . |
| 45 | It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for . |
| 46 | My first truism is the one Aristotle used to say what it is for a statement to be true or false : ‘ To say of what is , that it is not , or of what is not , that it is , is false ; while to say of what is , that it is , or of what is not , that it is not , is true . ’ |
| 47 | I suspect that it is assumed by most people , including those who planned this course of lectures , that language is a means of communication — that this is what it is for ; and that since literature is made out of language , it too must be a kind of communication , as defined by , for instance , the Collins English Dictionary : ‘ the imparting or exchange of information , ideas , feelings ’ . |
| 48 | It 's been very hard for years , and now , to be back here , you do n't know what it is for me . |
| 49 | Nor is it necessary to know any of x 's relational properties in order to understand what it is for it to be round-shaped or metal . |
| 50 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
| 51 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 52 | So Moses asks him what it is for , and the shepherd replies , " This is God 's milk . " |
| 53 | That is what it is for . |
| 54 | That 's what it 's for the country . |
| 55 | But you can reduce the risk of this sort of tragedy by following these tips : NEVER hand over cash without getting a receipt saying what it 's for . |
| 56 | Quite clearly the reason that people have been asked to come along this evening and have come along this evening is to put there points of view about how the see the theatre in the future what is programme facilities are the things that are n't happening here they feel should be happening here that 's what it 's for not here to serve any purpose for individuals to get up and make personal cuts on people or say what happen on a Saturday morning or a Thursday afternoon cos I |
| 57 | ‘ I know what it 's for , ’ stated Frick coldly . |
| 58 | The potty is always nearby , and I feel absolutely convinced she knows what it 's for . |
| 59 | ‘ Did she tell you what it 's for ? ’ |
| 60 | Yes especially cos you do n't know what it 's for half the bloody time , she does n't know where she is . |