Example sentences of "[prep] what it [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He observes people and places with a wry and uncanny sense of what it is that matters about them . |
| 3 | But such emotions are themselves informed by the way in which we see the world , by our conceptions of what it is that we find desirable or fearful . |
| 4 | In all such cases the prevalence of such actions and the possibilities for their control are better accounted for by addressing the question of what it is that usually inhibits the actions , rather than by accounting for how the motivations arise . |
| 5 | We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like . |
| 6 | Aristotle 's argument concerns the question of what it is that makes an action ‘ voluntary ’ , done of a person 's own free will , and in order to answer this question , he distinguished between actions whose origin was ‘ inside ’ a person , and those whose origin was ‘ outside ’ , which resulted from external influences or pressure or compulsion . |
| 7 | The approach to understanding organisations that concentrates its focus on people within organisations needs to be aware of what it is that motivates people within those organisations . |
| 8 | The Scottish summary of what it is that parents value in teachers and what makes a poor ( as well as a good ) teacher ( SED 1989:7 — 11 ) is in some ways an up-to-date version of parts of Enquiry 1 ( Schools Council 1968 ) . |
| 9 | When you see a problem take a note of what it is and where it is . |
| 10 | ‘ The consciousness secretly indwelling in matter , the occult inhabitant , is able to make its way upward from the lower to the higher gradations , taking up what it was into what it is and preparing to take up both into what it will be . |
| 11 | It 's extremely unwise to quote your Chairman of Committee , if the Chairman of the committee actually A has n't been informed that he 's being quoted , or B has not actually agreed with what it is that you 're quoting . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , let us , at least , start with what it is and how it might be explained . |
| 13 | In his public utterances Bohr was always very cautious about committing himself to what it is that actually is . |
| 14 | We were trying to put a finger on what it is that humans and moles and earthworms and airliners and watches have in common with each other , but not with blancmange , or Mont Blanc , or the moon . |
| 15 | The third force is the headteachers , for it is they who have the most decisive influence on what it is or is not safe to do or say in a school . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The notion of an avant-garde sensibility here functions simply as the ‘ other ’ of existing television ( just as much of the most interesting experimental video refunctions existing television as its other ) , a point outside the discourse of actually existing television from which we can argue about what it is that we actually want . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain . |
| 19 | But before turning to the central question of what ideals men and women should adopt , it is worth speculating a little about what it is that causes these observable differences of moral outlook . |
| 20 | Every definition of it can be swiftly undermined , so there 's inevitable uncertainty about what it is that we should be celebrating . |
| 21 | It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are |
| 22 | Erm , could I ask you to just share with us briefly , er , not in great detail , but , just a few words about what it is that you want to influence somebody about . |
| 23 | so you 're very clear about what it is that you want |
| 24 | when you 're clear about what it is that you want you can be assertive |
| 25 | We talked about it being clear , being clear about what it is that you want . |
| 26 | Okay what I ask you to do as with being assertive , first of all be clear about what it is that you 're going to try and do , be clear about what it is and what the situation is , explain it to the partner and then try it and let's see how it doing . |
| 27 | Okay what I ask you to do as with being assertive , first of all be clear about what it is that you 're going to try and do , be clear about what it is and what the situation is , explain it to the partner and then try it and let's see how it doing . |
| 28 | Although the details of the prescriptions advanced in each case may vary , there is some similarity in the nature of the diagnosis which each offers for what it is that currently afflicts our ailing body politic . |
| 29 | Yours is the clear-sighted , undeceived vision of the ancients , who knew life for what it is and men for what they are , and did not flinch from that knowledge . |
| 30 | It is thus the age of truth , the age when life is clearly seen for what it is and man knows his role in the totality of things . |