Example sentences of "[coord] what is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it what is on the glass , or what is on the glass plus what is seen through the glass , or just the glass itself ? |
| 2 | ‘ Who or what is Little Ben ? ’ |
| 3 | However , many inexperienced pilots get so thoroughly engrossed in the thermalling or what is going on elsewhere that they are temporarily ‘ switched off ’ to how they are flying . |
| 4 | We perceive what is ‘ out there ’ or what is ‘ around us ’ as a result of the transfer of energy from objects or events to specialized parts of the body known collectively as ‘ the sensory system ’ . |
| 5 | Choreographers should understand that counting beats or what is called the measure of the music is not dance rhythm . |
| 6 | This limitation in time is most clearly seen in the case of a life estate , whether it be an estate held for the life of the tenant , or what is called an estate pur autre vie , one held for the life or lives of some other person or persons . |
| 7 | ‘ Who or what is Tammuz Malamute ? ’ |
| 8 | The use of a particular language does not necessarily coincide either with a group that claims common descent , or a geographical area or what is supposedly a culture . |
| 9 | Thus we are told that it is a ‘ good film ’ , is ‘ riveting viewing ’ and has ‘ excellent acting ’ but are never told what makes a film ‘ good ’ , why certain images are ‘ riveting ’ or what is ‘ excellent acting ’ . |
| 10 | Who or what is behind the phenomena ? |
| 11 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 12 | Who or what is a retailer ? |
| 13 | This faith could be said to rely , at least to some extent , on that part of the teachings of the Old Testament which claims that a ‘ god ’ had promised sovereignty over the Promised Land , or what is now Palestine , to the descendants of Abraham . |
| 14 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 15 | This data can quickly be transferred from one information system to another and can be combined and transformed in ways which might not otherwise be practicable ; furthermore , data held on computers is invisible and not directly intelligible so that people have more difficulty in knowing what is in the records or what is happening to them . |
| 16 | One extract from the guide reads : ‘ Before children have the vaguest ideas about who or what is a homosexual they learn that homosexuality is something frightening , horrid and nasty . |
| 17 | Large and uncompromisingly rectangular , it was built of granite , or what is known as granite in these parts . |
| 18 | Or what is the role of the aesthetic , or the work of art , in religious communication ? |
| 19 | You may need to fill or plane off a slot at the thick or what is now the top edge . |
| 20 | ‘ Who or what is Santorini ? ’ |
| 21 | Nobody knows why they are in Sunnyvista or what is happening outside the city . |
| 22 | But sometimes the problem lies in our assuming that religious concepts have the same meaning for different people , when in fact there are grossly different understandings , even within Christianity , of who or what is meant by God — to take only the most basic example . |
| 23 | Who or what is to blame for the production of this sex monster who terrorised five counties for nearly six months ? |
| 24 | There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise . |
| 25 | Human beings do not respond to what is there ( or what is real ) but to their filtered version of what is there , that is , what they perceive to be the case . |
| 26 | Like all taxes they consist of two elements : the tax base , or what is to be taxed ; and the tax rate , or the amount to be levied on the tax base . |
| 27 | Who or what is responsible for his growth ? ’ |
| 28 | Of course , it is my belief about what is right or what is wrong ; if I believe something to be right , I am prepared to do it , whilst if I believe it to be wrong I am not . |
| 29 | Under this chairmanship , the first Modern Languages and Marketing Studies undergraduates were admitted , the ACML or what is now the Modern Languages and Accounting Studies degree programme was launched , the Information Technology stream was introduced in the Modern Languages Degree programme and the latter was expanded to include Arabic as a main language . |
| 30 | But their understanding of revelation is that God has revealed what is to be the case , or what is truth , in very exact terms . |