Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [Wh det] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vast and ordinarily unnoticed area of the history of the arts is the development of systems of social signals that what is now to be made available is to be regarded as art . |
| 2 | The last travel journal ends with Gide back in Cuverville dreaming again of a loss of self — ‘ to be rid of oneself , so that one blue breath , in which I am dissolved , might journey on … ! — a dissolution which would redeem loss , but only by disavowing the recognition that what is most intensely desired is lost to the past . |
| 3 | It is reinforced by the further recognition that what is now valid may well not be in the future , and that some people see earlier than others when changes in accepted opinions and values are needed . |
| 4 | This work has shed much new light not only on chronology , and therefore on the development of Bach 's style , but also on performance practice and what is loosely termed reception history . |
| 5 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |
| 6 | This epithelial tropism is likely to be dependent upon the viral upstream regulatory region ( URR ) which drives the expression of the genes encoding the E6 and E7 transforming proteins and which is preferentially active in cells of epidermal origin ( 3 , 4 ) . |
| 7 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 8 | The next claim which constructivism makes is that centralsystem thinking emerges out of the organism 's interaction with the environment , an interaction that is initially a literal inter- action but which is later carried out internally , at least in the human case . |
| 9 | In so far as this policy is concerned I think is all it does is give greater clarity to what is the strategy of the plan and what is perhaps implicit within those other policies . |
| 10 | In 1965 , Lukacs retrospectively described his critical essays as the " two-front " struggle which constituted " an indictment of the impoverishment in artistic content and in fictional representation both in Western avant-garde movements and what is customarily called socialist realism " . |
| 11 | Professor G.W. Keeton favoured a periodic judicial abstract restatement of general principles , a practice which , apart from obiter dicta , is not provided for in the English legal system , which is anathema to the judges and which is surely legislative responsibility . |
| 12 | In this context we may distinguish ( i ) the impartiality which is part and parcel of making moral or legal-judgments on the basis of formulating universal rules permitting or prohibiting certain types of conduct as distinct from making decisions only about particular persons and particular occasions : the impartiality not just of universalisability but of rules which actually are to be universalised ; ( ii ) the impartiality of being a non-involved person which is particularly relevant to the position of the person who is applying legal or moral rules to particular circumstances and which is directly to do with the characteristics of the judge who according to this standard must have no personal interest in the outcome of the case , but which may also be relevant in the process of legislation since legislators may have particular and personal interests in the outcome of the legislation in question ; ( iii ) there is the idea of impartiality as a norm of moral and judicial reasoning which has to do with giving due consideration to all relevant factors , a practice which may further but is not guaranteed by impartiality of the first two types . |
| 13 | I also speak on behalf of the group New Consensus , of which I am chairman and which is both all-party and none . |
| 14 | a notorious slum or ‘ rookery ’ in west London , comprising the area of Seven Dials and what is now New Oxford Street . |
| 15 | It is a movement he has used many times and which is perhaps seen at its best in the pas de deux to the Meditation from Thai-s created for Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley ; in A Month in the Country when Natalia dances with the Tutor to express her emotions ; and in Les Deux Pigeons in the final pas de deux , when the Young Man has returned to The Girl and tenderly dances with her in his arms ( see page 83 ) . |
| 16 | I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year . |
| 17 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 18 | Thus we fabricate a deeper sense of being red in which an object is red only if it is red in a stable fashion in the perceptual fields of all observers and which is therefore treated as part of the real world which exists independently of us . |
| 19 | The panels therefore are a contribution by the guidance staff to a total school philosophy which includes continuous assessment , a school-based certificate in years three and four which covers both the cognitive and affective domains and which is wholly positive in its comments , and mixed-ability teaching in years one and two . |
| 20 | Something similar happened in Vienna later , when the Emperor Franz Josef ordered the removal of the city 's walls , and replaced them with the famous Ring , with its parks , university , public buildings and what is now the Vienna State Opera . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I will adventure , ’ said the little tailor , ‘ though I have great fear of the dark places under the earth , where there is no light of day and what is above is dense and heavy . ’ |
| 22 | This provides a mechanism that buffers skews in adult sex ratio and which is quite distinct from Fisher 's principle and allied mechanisms for the primary sex ratio . |
| 23 | He knew this would be ‘ a great mortification ’ to Scott , but ‘ the personal feeling of an architect ought not to enter into competition with what is best adapted for the public service and what is most compatible with the ornament of the town ’ . |
| 24 | Of the greatest player of her day , Jane Austen wrote only that ‘ We were quite satisfied with Mr. Kean , ’ — which may not look so good splashed across the marquee but which is all many of the experts demand : as far as Miss Austen is concerned , he did n't get in the way of the drama . |
| 25 | Should we take account of only the material standards of village life or should we include such an apparently ephemeral notion as what is colloquially referred to as ‘ community spirit ’ , the sense of identity and belonging , which the inhabitants feel ? |
| 26 | The use of a particular language does not necessarily coincide either with a group that claims common descent , or a geographical area or what is supposedly a culture . |
| 27 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |
| 28 | The struggle systematically to open up the domestic and intimate relations of the normal kin-based nuclear household is premised on the belief that what is chiefly at fault with the conventional family household is that it is excessively closed and rigid . |
| 29 | Moreover , by relating this information to data on spreading rates , the directions of relative plate motions derived from the analysis of earthquakes , and palaeomagnetic evidence of continental palaeolatitudes , it has been possible to establish the direction and speed of present-day plate motions and what is probably a fairly accurate history of movements over the past 200 Ma or so ( Fig. 2.16 ) . |
| 30 | And there are notes on subjects such as fruit crystalisation and what is possibly the best explanation published of how and why jams set . |