Example sentences of "[noun] of [Wh det] it is for " in BNC.
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1 | That it does so , so profoundly , is a vital part of what it is for . |
2 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
3 | The concept of women 's standpoint also provides an interpretation of what it is for a theory to be comprehensive . |
4 | We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ . |
5 | Consider Hart 's account of what it is for a social rule to exist and his distinction between the internal and the external points of view . |
6 | All the work in this approach must go into a persuasive account of what it is for reasons to be conclusive . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 : |
9 | 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 . |