Example sentences of "what [vb -s] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 2 | The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past . |
| 3 | Here , though , is a very brief account of what has been done to date and what was found . |
| 4 | The Vobster Line is very much in its infancy and although not yet ready for passenger carrying , will nevertheless be of interest to those wishing to see what has been achieved to date and to learn of the plans for the future . |
| 5 | The objectives of each initiative should be clearly described , along with information on what has been achieved to date , and what is planned to be achieved . |
| 6 | The archosaurs had thus acquired an intermediate position , what has been referred to as ‘ semi-erect ’ , particularly in those immediately ancestral to the dinosaur . |
| 7 | In the light of that report the local authority carried out what has been referred to as a radical re-examination of the position . |
| 8 | To a lesser extent the preacher and the witness stand in the same relationship to their message , as they declare what has been revealed to them or that which they have personally witnessed . |
| 9 | Look at what has been given to you , and use it wisely . ’ |
| 10 | The company now hopes to transfer what has been developed to another vendor — Digital Equipment Corp sells the Y-MP EL , but has been less successful than Cray hoped . |
| 11 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 12 | There is also the problem , common to courses with high-recurrent frequency , that the guide does not remember exactly what has been said to each particular group . |
| 13 | It is perfectly in order to pause before answering a question so that you can be totally sure you have understood what has been said to you and to give some thought to your answer . |
| 14 | Make sure you have fully understood what has been said to you . |
| 15 | We are not talking of resurrection experiences here but of people needing to see for themselves what has been reported to them , so that the fact becomes obvious and denial or alternative explanations are less credible . |
| 16 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 17 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 18 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 19 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 20 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 21 | He used some statistics about what has been happening to jobs and businesses recently . |
| 22 | Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger . |
| 23 | Certainly keeps them going on the grounds that eventually there will you know we 'll be able to say and this is what we believed this long and you know this is what has been proved to be necessary . |
| 24 | Much of what has been considered to be poststructuralism 's wild disregard for history can be accounted for by the fact that it was operating within this — largely unknown outside France — anti-empiricist and anti-positivist tradition . |
| 25 | Whenever a trust is left , it can be left in precatory words so that someone may ask , enjoin , seek , or hope that the trustee should cause what has been entrusted to him to pass to the person the testator wished , just as he enjoined . |
| 26 | The ‘ relevant ’ skills learned concern the ability to plan projects , to apply mathematics as and when appropriate , to sustain work on them until some conclusion is reached and to communicate what has been learned to other people . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's been getting to you ? ’ |
| 28 | Again , explain what 's been said to a close friend and keep reminding yourself that in God 's eyes you are a successful , important and useful person . |
| 29 | Erm you you 've asked er chairman for for a general comment on on what 's been referred to as environmental discount , environmental considerations and so forth . |
| 30 | ‘ The only thing you 've got is what 's been given to you . ’ |