Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] [is] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have also explored the left-inclined critique of responsible party government and pluralism , so highlighting the extent to which theory is up against theory as much as any theory is assessed up against facts . |
| 2 | Some of them do n't know which way is up . ’ |
| 3 | Around 4,000 older homes could be at risk — the problem is to identify which concrete is about to crumble and which is sound . |
| 4 | Any child whose weight is on or below the third centile ( i.e. only three in every hundred children will be this weight at this age ) is very seriously underweight . |
| 5 | Conversely , any child whose weight is on or over the ninety-seventh centile is seriously overweight . |
| 6 | The UKCC has the moral high ground : it can argue that such courses must be funded in order to ensure safe practice and to protect the vulnerable public from nurses or health visitors whose practice is out of date and potentially dangerous . |
| 7 | Upon this charming scene enters a woman whose marriage is about to break up . |
| 8 | As part of a series of exhibitions which reassess the work of individual sculptors , Galerie Patrice Bellanger is presenting an exhibition of the work of Joseph-Charles Marin ( 1759–1834 ) , pupil , rival and friend of Claude Michel Clodion , an exhibition of whose work is on at the Louvre . |
| 9 | Science teaching is also undermanned in less overt ways , such as teaching by unqualified teachers and those whose knowledge is out of date , adding perhaps another 10000 to this figure . |
| 10 | It is not the student returning but a flood of visitors — a lady coming to teach Hungarian to students about to visit Budapest , a social worker sorting out a student with severe memory loss whose phone is about to be cut off , a personnel officer from the Civic Offices to recruit potential employees from students on the scheme and one or two others who just seem to have wandered in off the streets . |
| 11 | If you , an ambitious young squire or the equivalent ( a grade 2 clerk ) are allocated a knight whose own baron or mentor is out of favour , or whose manager is out of fashion , your ambitions will be thwarted . |
| 12 | It is as if from their own experience of good parenting they know inside themselves what parenting is about . |
| 13 | ‘ In people 's misconceptions of what progress is about . |
| 14 | It is at this stage that we can perhaps be of most use by pointing out that that is mostly what grief is about . |
| 15 | " Finding things out " is not an inappropriate rendering of what research is about . |
| 16 | Character , which is what geography is about , depends , at root , on the underlying rock . |
| 17 | ‘ He has no inkling of what administration is about , ’ says an UMNO senator . |
| 18 | This is what masonry is about and as we have seen in Chapter 2 , starting with the simple wall one can go from the arch to the dome and to the most complicated cathedral , keeping everything in compression , or at least trying to do so . |
| 19 | This is because such bigotry and violence are the result not of being too religious , but of not being religious enough , of superficiality , of mistaken ideas about what religion is about . |
| 20 | Work on the external aspects of religion , such as putting on special clothes and going into special buildings , is likely to be seen by children as quite literally what religion is about . |
| 21 | The purpose of this chapter is to examine the question of how pupils can gain some inkling , through their own experience , of what religion is about , so that their imagination is stimulated to conceive of the possibility of the spiritual dimension being more than meaningless talk . |
| 22 | These four qualities or characteristics are only a beginning in attempting to say what spirituality is about . |
| 23 | And , after all , you scratch my back , I 'll scratch yours — that 's what business is about , they tell me . |
| 24 | And the modern focus on international marketing is reflected in the evolution of theories about ‘ what marketing is about ’ . |
| 25 | What it really does — let's not get too involved in the equipment — it gives people a flavour of what skiing 's about . |
| 26 | What shop 's down there ? |
| 27 | ‘ So many people misunderstand what naturism is about . ’ |
| 28 | That is what forgiveness is about . |
| 29 | This may be because we have lost sight of what education is about , or , at best , because we disagree on the aims and objectives of education . |
| 30 | Such conflicting views or theories of style will concern us for the remainder of this chapter , but rather than argue that one view is wholly superior to another , we shall try to harmonize the apparent conflicts , so that at the end of the chapter , we shall have worked through to a balanced view of what stylistics is about . |