Example sentences of "[Wh det] it is for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument also assumes ( b ) that I can understand what it is for others to have mental states . |
| 2 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
| 3 | If one can notice the absence of something one must already know what it is for things to be absent . |
| 4 | All the work in this approach must go into a persuasive account of what it is for reasons to be conclusive . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |