Example sentences of "what is [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet without a secure nation-state the scope for development of what is conventionally identified as social policy is severely limited . |
| 2 | While Huntington has identified much of what is generally understood as conservative thought there is one aspect , which is of particular importance for our task , which he seems to underemphasize . |
| 3 | Clearly , these categories of disability blur the borderline between what is generally considered as disability and what is considered the increasing frailty of old age . |
| 4 | It must be stressed , in this connection , that the ‘ poetic ’ text in question is not necessarily a part of what is normally described as poetry , but can be any form of literature that possesses aesthetic or artistic properties . |
| 5 | What is loosely described as ‘ the elderly population ’ covers an age range from 65 to 100+ years and is not the homogeneous social group that this unitary term would indicate . |
| 6 | The fourth is that of definitions of legitimate knowledge : what is often taught as neutral and objective is in fact androcentric and sexist . |
| 7 | This analysis does much to elucidate what is often dismissed as Nkrumah 's plunge into Communist ( or was it Fascist ? ) dictatorship . |
| 8 | What is often overlooked because of Cuba 's active ( although never particularly substantial ) support for armed struggle in Latin America later in the 1960s is that , initially , the Castro regime made consistent attempts to build diplomatic relations with its hemispheric neighbours . |
| 9 | The reward reduces the horse 's anxiety and negative feelings , and replaces them with more positive feelings instead — what is often described as ‘ ending on a good note ! ’ |
| 10 | She traces the origins of language interactions in the communicative patterns of earliest infancy , suggests some valuable features of what is sometimes dismissed as ‘ baby talk ’ and with extensive reference to the research literature , reviews a whole range of features of adult language that are thought to assist the child 's task of language learning . |
| 11 | She also identifies the need for what is usefully described as ‘ transition management ’ , to establish the change through a clearly defined communications strategy , based on a model of the change process . |
| 12 | As he prepares to defend his reputation as well as what is inaccurately described as his undisputed world heavyweight title here tomorrow night against Riddick Bowe , he says : ‘ I realise that if I do n't win , I 'll be remembered as a bum . ’ |
| 13 | I have developed considerable regard and affection over the years for Jack Profumo , who has worked his passage after having been what is technically described as ‘ disgraced ’ in circumstances where a great number of people would not have been over-censorious . |
| 14 | The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training . |
| 15 | However , problems arise as soon as you start to think about what is actually happening when a tippe-top flips over . |
| 16 | For the purposes of this essay I will concentrate on associative learning which covers what is popularly defined as learning , as opposed to genetic learning which is instinctual , hereditary behaviour that has developed through evolution . |
| 17 | Such pairs of things enter into what is variously described as interaction , reciprocal causation , functional interdependence , functional relation , concomitant variation , and so on . |
| 18 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 19 | These bodies have various functions ; none is exclusively concerned with what is commonly regarded as being their primary function , i.e. the making of laws . |