Example sentences of "[adv] what [is] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I think perhaps what 's going to be said to you to the rest of the day erm will actually bring out the key points tha that Hughie was trying , trying to make .
2 The core material would be highway ‘ planings ’ , which are basically what is scraped off a road before it is re-surfaced .
3 We , the undersigned , being the group concerned , are the only ones who can state authoritatively what is happening within our group .
4 So what 's cooking on the alternative fuels front ?
5 So what 's left for the Nineties ?
6 That 's on Sunday , so what 's happening on Sunday Carla ?
7 So what 's going to be ?
8 The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that .
9 So what is incorporated in there , is the minimum that you could ever survive on in terms of running a totally enabling authority .
10 So what is happening to the tape being produced in Wrexham ?
11 So what is happening to that money ?
12 So what is mined in large quantities in Derbyshire ?
13 Hence the scene in the restaurant with the company director forced to say only what is contained in his annual report .
14 For instance , if the hypothesis were that nation states pursue their own self-interest , then one could ask not only what is to count as a nation state and as pursuit of self-interest but also why these particular concepts were the ones chosen .
15 As far as the author 's experience is concerned , what counts from the viewpoint of criticism is only what is embodied in the text , and that is wholly accessible to anyone with a knowledge of the language and culture to which the text belongs .
16 Although I am sure that these remarks will apply to all constituencies in the north of Ireland , I can judge only what is happening in the one that I know best , which is my own , where 3,344 houses have been deemed ’ unfit ’ , as the Minister confirmed to me in a written answer in 1988 .
17 Nevertheless the argument is an effective way of understanding why linear stability analysis of the full situation predicts overstability and thus what is happening in Fig. 23.5 .
18 Somehow what is left of Beaufort conspires to embody these political and religious transitions ; when the mists lie in the valleys of southern Lebanon , the remaining walls can be glimpsed above the clouds , but because of the peculiar geography of the place — because the ravines and wadis fold in uneven formation and in odd directions — Beaufort always appears to be in a different location , its broken ramparts a nightmare denture which eludes every contour and coordinate .
19 Indeed , that such questions are intelligible is largely what is meant by saying that its phenomenology ‘ has a dimension comparable to visual experience as we know it ’ .
20 Again the question of just what is disorganized about disorganized capitalism surfaces for our consideration .
21 But that is just what is happening to black people coming to Britain as dependants and visitors .
22 They can even be used allopathically ( as in orthodox medicine ) and this is just what is happening in the situation above when one or two remedies are advocated for the treatment of everyone with one disease label .
23 He says it is just what is needed in Northampton to get things moving again .
24 The quite understandable confusion comes in the area of just what is meant by persuasion and permission .
25 At a more general level , there seems to be considerable confusion about just what is meant by RMI , what does it entail and what are the benefits to the patient .
26 If , being true , they both portray certain aspects of reality , just what is meant by " reality " ?
27 But this abolishes , in effect the distinction between particulars and universals , while leaving us with the problem of explaining just what is meant by " different " places and " different " times .
28 Just what is meant by an " outsider " in such cases is a matter for definition .
29 Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length .
30 This is because The Stock Exchange , from , 1979 onwards , began to modernise its clearing-system by introducing progressively what is known as TALISMAN .
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