Example sentences of "to what [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researchers are still compiling figures but claim the quantity of halon gas emitted to be " a very large amount compared to what is normally emitted in the world " . |
| 2 | The decision as to what is best will very much depend on timing . |
| 3 | The explicit curriculum refers to what is openly expressed as the intention of the school , and to what is actually taught — the content per se which is put across . |
| 4 | I managed to persuade my husband that we should send daughter number three to what is reliably known as the most expensive school in Britain . |
| 5 | Modelling of the deep magnetic boundaries has provided good correlations with reflectivity boundaries picked up on deep seismic surveys , and images of the data and their derivatives have suggested the presence of major structural boundaries , both parallel and oblique to what is conventionally taken to be the Iapetus suture , which may be the margins of terrains assembled as part of a broader zone . |
| 6 | As such , the subject contains internal objects , representations which determine the relation to what is misleadingly called external reality . |
| 7 | Which was right be had no resemblance to what is commercially thought of a typecasting in any way — it 's just that the mixture was right with Simon Callow . |
| 8 | It amounts to £92.5 million over five years which is supposed to be additional money to what is already budgeted . |
| 9 | Thus , an idea on a social form of activity must be related to what is already known in sociology if our research is to make a genuine contribution to sociological knowledge . |
| 10 | Up went Solly , up the steep rock above which a proliferation of good holds give a misleading impression as to what is yet to come . |
| 11 | Such breeding programmes , in conjunction with the use of fertilisers and crop-protection chemicals , have given rise to what is commonly known as the ‘ Green Revolution ’ of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | Modern medical thinking suggests this might have been due to what is commonly known as a ‘ bunch of grapes pregnancy ’ . |
| 13 | Above all , understanding an utterance involves the making of inferences that will connect what is said to what is mutually assumed or what has been said before . |
| 14 | When you read the reports of your debtor companies you may find the following of help in getting to what is really meant . |
| 15 | The truth is that the Footsie is proving to be a misleading guide to what is really happening in the market . |
| 16 | Even if the outgoing employee has no constructive criticism to make of the job , the period of compiling the job specification prior to the interview is an invaluable chance to reconsider what exactly the job involves and to compare what is being done to what is really needed . |
| 17 | Why not with Dr Primo Nebiolo , president of the IAAF , who never ceases to eulogise about the greatness of the sport while around him , those attuned to what is really going on are in no doubt that cheating remains rife . |
| 18 | Then at last he said : ‘ Gentlemen — and ladies , pardon me — I have given much thought to these matters and I wish to say here in confidence to you , that while there remains between myself and many of those present differences of interpretation as to what is really occurring in Europe at this moment , despite this , as to the main points that have been raised in this house , I am convinced , gentlemen , convinced both of their justice and their practicality . ’ |
| 19 | People understand language by using their knowledge about everyday life to add to what is explicitly stated . |
| 20 | Contrary to what is often seen in films , very few kicks are employed . |
| 21 | Contrary to what is often said , there is a law of trespass in Scotland but it is rather a complex and grey area . |
| 22 | Will they feel empty on the last child 's departure and give substance to what is often called the ‘ empty nest ’ syndrome of marriage ? |
| 23 | Where there is power , there is resistance : contrary to what is often assumed , it is the absence of resistance which is impossible . |
| 24 | This may seem like an odd question but there is quite some difference between eating styles , especially eating related to what is often viewed as ‘ naughty ’ food . |
| 25 | Clownfish are rarely observed in the wild without their protector and contrary to what is often recommended , they are not happy in the aquarium without an anemone . |
| 26 | Contrary to what is often supposed , especially by the more engagé workers in comparative religion , there is no cross culturally valid catalogue of phenomenologically distinct kinds of beneficent or baneful powers . |
| 27 | Talcott Parsons has been one of the sociologists to realize this , contrary to what is often supposed , as will be shown later in this chapter . |
| 28 | Contrary to what is often supposed , the Dutch were scarcely less prone to employ political means to promote their economic position than was the France of Louis XIV and Colbert . |
| 29 | In particular , unless very rigidly controlled it is subject to what is technically called " a false drop " , that is to say , the combination of facet headings that produce false or unsought information . |
| 30 | The first band of earnings attracting this contribution should run up to what is now called the lower earnings limit . |