Example sentences of "[verb] what is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can also be used to indicate what is to be presented by the speaker as the topic . |
| 2 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 3 | On no account worry about the following technicalities , but , as with driving a car , it is helpful to know what is under the bonnet . |
| 4 | As a little afterthought , if anyone one would like to know what is on my Christmas list — please tell that Mummy would like a LIE-IN ! |
| 5 | It is all very well to insist that causes have or are powers or whatever , but we need to know what is to be understood by that . |
| 6 | These people may of course want to keep their knowledge secret so as to avoid any involvement in criminal proceedings , which is not helpful to creditors and to credit managers wanting to know what is to be salvaged from the wreck . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 8 | If you go into a pub today and buy a pint of beer , a coke , a low alcohol lager and a packet of crisps , you have a right to know what is in all those products except the beer . |
| 9 | The resident has a right to know what is in the plan , and the staff of the Home will put it into practice . |
| 10 | Bluntly stated : an enquirer into ‘ the mind ’ has to know what is in his own mind and why it is filled in the way it is . |
| 11 | We still need to know what is in that contract or we need to find out whether there is anything peculiar , and I mean illegal , about Harley 's putter . |
| 12 | All too often they have to guess what is in the minds of their teachers . |
| 13 | And we feel that both of those policies combine to establish what is in effect a presumption against erm any form of significant employment development away from the the county 's main settlements . |
| 14 | While interest in ‘ transcultural ’ issues blossoms , blindness to racism remains as pervasive as ever , obscuring what is of value in other cultures and races . |
| 15 | The impossibility of becoming aware of another 's inwardness without a readiness to let myself feel as he does is plain when someone tries to communicate what is inside his head . |
| 16 | Bruner starts by leading children to discover what is in their own heads , and describes a lesson on sentence structure . |
| 17 | They do n't know what is on their own doorsteps . ’ |
| 18 | It is sad when the options are closed off because those who support do not know what is of most significance . |
| 19 | We just do n't know what is at the root of her condition . ’ |
| 20 | So when the Danes reconsider it in another referendum on May 18th , will most Europeans know what is at stake ? |
| 21 | Thus I can know what is in the bottom drawer of my desk , or what I shall eat for breakfast tomorrow , by some form of inductive inference from what I have observed or am now observing . |
| 22 | For instance , it is no use trying to prove that a certain sequence of steps will lead to supper if you do n't know what is in your larder . |
| 23 | They may not know what is in these documents ; even those who do may not understand the implications of the proposals . |
| 24 | You do not know what is in it . |
| 25 | Zuccarelli will not discuss what is inside his ‘ Ringo ’ recording head instead expounding a psycho-acoustic theory to disguise what engineers suspect is a simple advance in old-fashioned binaural recording . |
| 26 | Although big advances in multibeam sonar and improved positioning equipment allow detailed surveys to be made , the only way to find what is in the deposits is to drill cores . |
| 27 | Colin Patterson on the other hand writes what is for me the most scholarly paper in the volume , pointing out that , from the transformed cladist point of view , the much discussed and abused term ‘ homology ’ actually refers to those characters that define natural groups of organisms and need have no evolutionary connotations . |
| 28 | Job fairs are usually very lively and informal , and you can roam at leisure , surveying what is on offer and gathering literature on jobs you might not have considered in the everyday run of things . |
| 29 | ‘ There have to be considerably greater concerns to displace what is in reality the right of a parent to have their child living with them . ’ |
| 30 | When he told Perkins his landlord of his case , and that it would be a pity to leave Solomon unfinished , Perkins blanched when he heard it would take another two years , gave him his fat hand and told him if the painting did not sell after two years , and Haydon still could not pay , ‘ … why , sir , we 'll consider what is to be done , so do n't fret , but work . ’ |