Example sentences of "what [is] [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact my honourable friend , the parliamentary under secretary of state for the department of trade and industry who 's responsible for deregulation is also the sponsoring minister for one of these orders , namely the one on the insurance companies , and secondly our intention is that the cost here should be negligible , or nil er in that they do n't go beyond er what is already required or or possible by way of a right to report , here we 're imposing a duty to report . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The sudden change in writing or in speech from what is deeply moving or sublime to what is foolish or unimportant . |
| 4 | In most cases it is also useful to develop a statement of the primary task of the enterprise , based on a neutral assessment of what is actually happening or is being achieved ( such as making motor cars , or providing a specified service and so on ) . |
| 5 | Finally , there is the tension in the design process between the sense of design as a transformative activity , a positing activity , transcendent of the givens of a problem ( in the sense of both breaking with context and with the form of the immediately perceived requirements — design as defining needs as well as solutions ) and design as a posited activity , that which works from the given which deals with what is real not with what is merely planned or speculated or imagined . |