Example sentences of "[verb] what is [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But California has what is probably the highest suicide rate in the world . |
| 2 | It is certainly the case that Stirling Council has what is probably one of the most progressive same-sex-sharing tenancy policies in the country . |
| 3 | It was first given precision by Robert Hooke , a contemporary of Newton , who proposed what is now called Hooke 's law , namely that stress is proportional to strain . |
| 4 | By ‘ placing ’ exorcism in such a zone , state institutions ( which Greenblatt equates with Harsnett 's text ) can attempt to contain what is potentially disruptive to the state ; eliminating , in this case , charismatic religious groups as a potential threat to the established Church . |
| 5 | Most older people do not need what is interestingly referred to as ‘ warden-controlled accommodation ’ , although they seldom object to this extra facility . |
| 6 | This general description of the countryside oversimplifies what is really a very complicated pattern of soils and climate . |
| 7 | Instead there is an attempt to consolidate what is already known . |
| 8 | If we have decided on a moderate degree of modulation , it is well to know what is most effective and what subsequent progressions ( to return to the tonic ) are good . |
| 9 | ‘ The problem for people at the USTA and the LTA is that they are too far removed from what is going on in tennis to know what is really required , ’ he says . |
| 10 | People at the USTA and LTA are too far removed to know what is really required — Glenn William |
| 11 | To be successful at meetings you need to know what is really going on , or in other words what is below the surface . |
| 12 | Vladimir described the difference as ‘ white washing ’ and ‘ washing white ’ : white washing is quick and relatively easy , just covering up what was there , but there is always the danger of it chipping off and revealing what is underneath . |
| 13 | Its purpose is to discover what is both worthwhile in the literature and available ( either in print or obtainable secondhand ) and the exercise is carried out independently of existing library stock . |
| 14 | But you can try to improve the situation by realising you are not responsible for his behaviour and , slowly but firmly , letting him know what is no longer acceptable . |
| 15 | Do you know what is almost extinct in your sex ? |
| 16 | I do n't know what is now |
| 17 | At the meeting the VHPB reviewed what is actually happening in different countries against what is recommended . |
| 18 | The five lines above the signature , which appear on the facsimile of the whole page ( p. 58 ) , have defied attempts to decipher them , but Unver , beneath the facsimile on p. 50 , adds what is apparently a summary of these lines : that is , " Above is a note of Molla Yegan 's recommending this person [ presumably Molla Gurani ] as Fatih 's Hoca . " |
| 19 | I shall not enter into a detailed discussion of this Labour government , its programme and effects , but it should be noted that over the years to 1951 , as more and more of the party 's electoral pledges were realised , there occurred what is often interpreted as a ‘ weakening of commitment ’ of both party and people to ‘ socialism ’ , and a progressive exhaustion of the political impetus for social and economic change . |
| 20 | For the purposes of this essay I will concentrate on associative learning which covers what is popularly defined as learning , as opposed to genetic learning which is instinctual , hereditary behaviour that has developed through evolution . |
| 21 | Nor does it seem to have stifled what is often stringent criticism . |
| 22 | There are worlds of feeling to be gently explored in seeking to provide what is really needed . |
| 23 | He also composed more formal poems , including an epithalamium on the marriage of king Sigibert and the Visigothic princess Brunhild as well as panegyrics and poems for the courts of Charibert and Chilperic I. These public poems provide what is perhaps the best evidence for the ideology of the Merovingian court in the second half of the sixth century . |
| 24 | Since then , it has come to designate what is clearly perceived as a property in its own right , which , when used in an adjective , is ascribed to the accompanying noun ( or , strictly , to the entity that is its referential locus ) . |
| 25 | Now this means that erm putting it in its simplest way that for any of the districts in North Yorkshire and for Harrogate and if I may presume to say so in Selby in particular where the need is greatest , the local authorities must have the ability to designate what is provocatively called green field land , if they so wish in their local plan , proper consultations and strategic policies , they must have that freedom to do that if they are to be able to offer in their district land which will prove attractive to erm employment generating uses . |
| 26 | The truth is that the new chairman of British Coal has told the Secretary of State that he can not privatise the coal industry in its present state and that the Rothschild report may understate what is really in store for the coal industry . |
| 27 | These are two ways of expressing what is now a widely accepted notion . |
| 28 | The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 . |
| 29 | xlvii , Against Euergos ) by pirates , local rowdies or litigants seeking what is nowadays politely called a ‘ remedy by self-help ’ ; in which case the answer was to take refuge inside the fortified central pyrgos or tower , whose foundations are still a feature of the Vari site . |
| 30 | Moodie had succeeded over Ulster 's short circuits at Kirkistown and Bishopscourt but , despite four years of tryi West , he had never been able to crack what is arguably Ulster 's toughest race . |