Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] it is for " in BNC.

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1 We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ .
2 That it does so , so profoundly , is a vital part of what it is for .
3 Consider Hart 's account of what it is for a social rule to exist and his distinction between the internal and the external points of view .
4 The concept of women 's standpoint also provides an interpretation of what it is for a theory to be comprehensive .
5 All the work in this approach must go into a persuasive account of what it is for reasons to be conclusive .
6 The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it .
7 Discussion of justification , of what it is for a belief to be justified , begins with this theory ; other theories will be described in terms of their relation to or divergence from this one .
8 And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning :
9 In fact , this means that our answer will amount to an account of what it is for a non-observation statement to be significant , and what it is that makes one such statement mean something different from what another one means .
10 It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting .
11 VP is about what it is for a sentence to be significant rather than meaningless , while MP is about what it is for a sentence to have one meaning rather than another .
12 VP is about what it is for a sentence to be significant rather than meaningless , while MP is about what it is for a sentence to have one meaning rather than another .
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