Example sentences of "what it is for [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 2 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 3 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 4 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 5 | And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning : |