Example sentences of "what it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | His kin are entrepreneurs , a wandering bourgeoisie : they have known what it is to be strangers in tight corners , as he himself is a stranger in this tight African town . |
| 2 | The novel ( or so I hope ) signals a separation between author and narrator with its very first sentence : ‘ The World is what it is ; men who are nothing , who allow themselves to become nothing , have no place in it . ’ |
| 3 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 4 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 5 | You ca n't imagine what it 's like not to know what it is to meet an attractive person who 's also attracted to you , can you ? |
| 6 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 7 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 8 | Get in touch with the true essence of England , what it is to be English . |
| 9 | But what if the motorless machine is what it is all about ? |
| 10 | I mean that the novel has always given the impression that third person narration can narrate what it is I am feeling . |
| 11 | Which the big glass will not only deny but show up for what it is : narcissism , regression , the refusal to see things as they are . |
| 12 | If only we could bring it into focus , he wrote , if only we could concentrate hard enough , we might be able to understand what it is . |
| 13 | Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote . |
| 14 | So it is just as important to know what it is about your organisation that customers value so that you can promote it fully . |
| 15 | But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Human nature being what it is , my guess is that any maid worth her salt would have put a slightly imperfect dish in front of anyone but her master or mistress for the cook 's sake . ’ |
| 17 | I ca n't for the life of me understand what it is you see in it . |
| 18 | Do you know what it is , and where I can get one ? |
| 19 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
| 20 | And then you plunge into me , my spine shatters and floats in hyperspace , and I know — do n't know what it is , but it is . |
| 21 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 22 | This might be characterized as ‘ what it is like to see ’ or ‘ what things look like ’ or , most especially , ‘ what colours are like ’ ( that is , what they look like — there is no difference in their case ) . |
| 23 | BS is supposed to have complete scientific knowledge of V and his physical environment when V sees : yet BS does not know what it is like for V to see , what colours look like , etcetera . |
| 24 | Differentiating modes of access seems relevant only because of the covert assumption that different ways of knowing feel different — that is , what it is like to have those experiences is different . |
| 25 | He combines the view that what it is like to see , for example colour is something BS would come to know on gaining his sight , with the view that what it is like to see , for example , colour is not a further fact in addition to the physical facts about the brain ( p. 146f ) . |
| 26 | He combines the view that what it is like to see , for example colour is something BS would come to know on gaining his sight , with the view that what it is like to see , for example , colour is not a further fact in addition to the physical facts about the brain ( p. 146f ) . |
| 27 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 28 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 29 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 30 | It is legitimate , therefore , to ask what it is that is special about flea-bitten membranes that they should open up one object ( the body ) to all others , to a world . |