Example sentences of "what is " in BNC.
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| 1 | FACTSHEET WHAT IS AIDS ? |
| 2 | What is ACET ? |
| 3 | What is AIDS ? |
| 4 | Your friends begin to wonder what is wrong . |
| 5 | What is Gift Aid ? |
| 6 | WHAT IS ACET HOME CARE ? |
| 7 | WHAT IS ACET ? |
| 8 | President Bush 's recent pronouncements on what is just and moral during the Gulf war left me feeling empty and bitter . |
| 9 | What is art ? |
| 10 | As the following chapters will show , the useful and helpful functions of art criticism will receive preference in the choice of what is quoted or discussed . |
| 11 | There may , however , be questions in her mind about the choices open to her : how will the information in a catalogue differ from what is to be found in a monograph ? |
| 12 | A presenter , after all , knows that a viewer has the visual evidence to check on what is being said . |
| 13 | What is true for general histories also applies to surveys of more limited periods . |
| 14 | A sound guide has an edge over the printed page , since the listener is looking at what is being described , interpreted and judged . |
| 15 | We will learn by our own experience what is best , and not by following the dogmatism of another . |
| 16 | What is valuable is to see that here is a critic writing at the top of his bent . |
| 17 | ‘ The critic , I hold , should be loyal enough to his own impressions to confess to what is probably due to his own defects . |
| 18 | The reader may be disappointed by the standard of what is written , but unlike other sites of criticism , this can not be attributed to the form of publication , only to the limitations of the author . |
| 19 | paradoxically , it is in museums that the market in art is defined , since permanent collections place limits on what is available for collectors to purchase . |
| 20 | What is clearly a dealers ' market is often signalled by the invention of a brand name to group together a variety of material , perhaps rather disparate . |
| 21 | The critic writing in a newspaper with very limited space needs such a label to give the reader a general idea of what is on display . |
| 22 | You may say that it is feeble in colour and monotonous in tone — it may be so , but it touches the heart , it arrests the attention ; and what is the use of all your correct drawing and pure tints , and skill in light and shade , if your subject leaves me cold and unaffected . |
| 23 | What is most likely to be useful in such material is the chance that inferences can be drawn by the reader , seeing a similarity in a problem elsewhere with a question in the visual arts . |
| 24 | Indeed , if the story enacted in a picture is not known , quite wrong inferences can be drawn from what is perceived . |
| 25 | What is an aesthetic experience ? |
| 26 | A pragmatic view is that an aesthetic experience is what is described as such , and as there are varieties of religious experience , so there may be varieties of aesthetic experience . |
| 27 | It is what is likely to occur . |
| 28 | There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on . |
| 29 | But what is most striking about both books is the sense they give of how desolate and enclosed an adolescence could be , at opposite ends of the society . |
| 30 | What is required is a poetry which does not analyse or criticise , and is suitable for throngs and parades : we are in a situation where the self-portraits of the lyric author can be displayed like placards . |