Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] what is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just a question of realising what is in your head , because I find I can usually hear roughly what I 'm trying to get to . |
| 2 | In addition , a continuation task will be used as a further method of assessing what is in the mind of the reader after reading a particular text . |
| 3 | So the writer of police procedurals is basically faced with the task of making what is in life dull into reading that is as far as possible exciting . |
| 4 | Whatever the original guidelines given them , goes the argument , the agents get drawn into doing what is in the best interest of those they are regulating — they are , wittingly or unwittingly , captured by the people they are supposed to be policing ( see , for example , Stigler , 1971 ) . |
| 5 | As John of Climacus said : ‘ The man who has come to know himself is never fooled into reaching what is beyond him . |
| 6 | It is of the essence of that jurisdiction that the court has the power and the responsibility in appropriate cases to override the views of both the child and the parent in determining what is in the child 's best interests . |
| 7 | This data can quickly be transferred from one information system to another and can be combined and transformed in ways which might not otherwise be practicable ; furthermore , data held on computers is invisible and not directly intelligible so that people have more difficulty in knowing what is in the records or what is happening to them . |
| 8 | Questions are categorised as closed ( where teacher wants answer which is already in her/his mind ) and open ( where teacher is interested in knowing what is in pupils ' minds ) . |
| 9 | Record s of achievement record positive achievements and the student has a large say in selecting what is to be recorded . |
| 10 | Transformational reformism is about changing what is into something very different . |
| 11 | Any state is described by saying what is on what . |
| 12 | It is a form of brainwashing , or what that pioneer in the study of learning processes , Gregory Bateson , called corrective learning , that information-seeking activity whereby a person attempts to ‘ achieve a congruence between ‘ something in his head ’ and the external world … by altering what is in his head ’ — only in this case it is what is in Iago 's head , ‘ If thou dost love me ’ , Othello says to Iago , ‘ Show me thy thought ’ ; earlier he had said that Iago hesitated . |
| 13 | We 've really got ta start this project by thinking what is in the interests of the members . |