Example sentences of "to what is be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former means that anything in the domain of belief is potentially relevant to what is being considered ; the latter means that the falsification or verification of propositions is done relative to their status in a scientific theory ( and , by extension , in a belief system ) . |
| 2 | The alert and attentive reader , however , usually brings critical attention to what is being read and reacts in some way . |
| 3 | In other words , the counsellor must seek the real feelings of the counsellee through careful listening to what is being said , how it is being said , and how this appears to relate to the real situation . |
| 4 | Even if the faults are apparent , a deaf person would be very wary of criticising for fear that the interpreter would no longer co-operate and that even the slim link to what is being discussed in hearing company will be taken away . |
| 5 | We are often so anxious to talk , to express our views or to make our point , that we often fail to listen to what is being said to us . |
| 6 | This will mean that you will be in possession of more information and facts than people who pay scant attention to what is being said . |
| 7 | Secondly , if you listen carefully you are more likely to make the right responses to what is being said to you . |
| 8 | You need to make the effort to put your energy into the task in hand and to listen to what is being said . |
| 9 | If this is the case , then it suggests that an important aspect of skilled reading is to avoid attending too closely to what is being fixated at any one moment , and to allow our eyes to be attracted to nearby interesting meanings . |
| 10 | The idea is that , say , a Domestos Hygiene Advisory Service , a Clarks Health Education Service , or a Butter Information Bureau , all channel information efforts about a product through a focal point , thus gaining better attention from the media , lending an increased air of respectability to what is being done for commercial reasons , and acting as a voice on behalf of the area of expertise in which the manufacturer operates . |
| 11 | Modality or modal meanings have to do with the attitude of the speaker to the hearer or to what is being said , with such things as certainty , possibility , and obligation . |
| 12 | The direction and length of our gaze also conveys information about our attitudes to each other and to what is being said . |
| 13 | As these passages demonstrate , the passive consumption of information and oral commentary is contrasted with characteristically written forms of language use which encourage intersubjective communication by forcing people to imagine , in the case of the journal , what others are doing or , in the case of the letter , how they will react to what is being written to them . |
| 14 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 15 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman gives credit to what is being done by civil service departments and executive agencies . |
| 16 | Thus , the basic needs approach switches attention from ‘ how much is being produced … to what is being produced , in what ways , for whom and with what impact ’ ( Hicks and Streeton , 1979 , p.577 ) . |
| 17 | There are many examples similar to ( b ) ; perhaps the best rule to give is that the tonic syllable will tend to occur on the last lexical word in the tone-unit , but may be placed earlier in the tone-unit if there is a word there with greater importance to what is being said . |