Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [Wh det] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once specified , these problem behaviours can be talked about to the child and clear guidelines given about what is expected and what is going to happen if the child continues to misbehave . |
| 2 | ( e ) Fixtures and fittings It is very important that the clients clearly understand what is included and what is excluded . |
| 3 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 4 | Consequently , it is recognized that what is offered can only be a highly personal and limited selection of developments in disciplines other than financial management , with a few isolated ideas on linkages between them . |
| 5 | It may simply be said that what is needed for two events to be cause and effect as we understand them is that the probability of the second , given the first , is higher than the probability of the second , given the absence of the first . |
| 6 | Even though it may be said that what is taken on in the incarnation is a humanity in which we all share , it is still the case that the form in which this universal nature is said to have been taken on is that of a male human being . |
| 7 | The argument is often made that what is required is applied research to deliver products and processes directly to industry . |
| 8 | The contract includes agreement not only about what new skills and knowledge need to be learned but also about why they are needed , how they will be applied and what is expected to result from them within the school or office . |
| 9 | As Hopwood states ( 1982 , p. 43 ) : ‘ Familiarity with experience elsewhere should instil a greater realization of the differences between what should be done and what is said to be done , and what is done and what might be done . ’ |
| 10 | It eliminates the possibility of inconsistencies arising between what is done and what is recorded — with all the subsequent difficulties this causes -by the simple device of reducing the two activities to a single operation through the provision of integrated letter writing . |
| 11 | Work on knowledge about language should involve discussion of matters such as sexist language ; styles of interaction in social groups ( see below ) ; how hidden messages about social groups ( such as teenagers or older people ) which are conveyed by advertising etc. can be decoded for the values they contain and for the differences between what is said and what is implied . |
| 12 | On the contrary , it is essential sometimes to focus on language forms , in order to discuss cases where there is a difference between form and meaning , between what is said and what is meant . |
| 13 | Taxis refers to the kind of order which is made and which is imposed from without ; it is the order of an organization . |
| 14 | This paper is chemically treated and whatever is written or typed on the top copy , automatically creates a carbon copy on the paper beneath . |
| 15 | Not only will the ranks of its future membership suffer , but the impression will be conveyed that what is done in church is For Adults Only . |
| 16 | A skill description relates to how a task is performed and what is achieved rather than what actions are taken . |
| 17 | Kean has proposed that what is omitted in spontaneous speech are the elements of sentences which are unstressed — commonly , prefixes , suffixes and function words . |
| 18 | It must be remembered that what is described is , almost without exception , the church as it existed at the time of writing . |
| 19 | These can not be known at the time the decision is to be made and a means of stating what is known and what is assessed of the influence of future events on the commercial performance of the product , permitting comparisons between options , is needed . |
| 20 | These can not be known at the time the decision is to be made and a means of stating what is known and what is assessed of the influence of future events on the commercial performance of the product , permitting comparisons between options , is needed . |
| 21 | Examination of what is entailed and what is expected have produced ambivalent conclusions , less clear than the raw conviction that training is a good thing : but overall the evidence is favourable . |
| 22 | It should be emphasised that what is meant here is not just " contextually " dispensable but " universally " dispensable . |
| 23 | All the accounts of latent inhibition discussed so far have assumed that what is learned during pre-exposure interferes with the formation of the CS-US association . |
| 24 | However , I am assured by those who know that public persons — premiers in particular — do not become reconciled to criticism , and despite affecting not to be , they remain immensely conscious of what is being said and are troubled if what is said is not to their liking . |
| 25 | Who is involved and what is going on ? |
| 26 | What counts for the sake of higher education is the student 's ability to understand what is learned or what is done , to conceptualise it , to grasp it under different aspects , and to take up critical stances in relation to it . |
| 27 | There can be a world of difference between what is said ( or written ) , what is meant and what is understood . |
| 28 | reviews what has been achieved and what is known ; |
| 29 | In these circumstances , it is convenient for corporate officials to pull the cloak of honest ignorance over their heads and proceed under its darkness to stumble blindly and unwittingly over the thin line between what is condoned and what is condemned . |
| 30 | The public corporation in which its assets are vested and which is charged with the conduct of the business , is accountable to Parliament . |