Example sentences of "what it is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A first report on the direct and indirect contributions of universities and polytechnics to innovations in the production of goods and services , and possible changes in the balance of these contributions in high-technology activities , was completed in 1985 , and a more extensive report , including a model of what it is reasonable to expect from higher education , will be completed in 1986 . |
| 2 | The child , as it gains a progressive mastery of language , grows gradually into an awareness of what it is capable . |
| 3 | Trammelled as I am by ‘ the service ’ , I can only plead guilty to what it is impossible to amend without commencing de novo — for everything and everybody must find their level on board of a king 's ship . |
| 4 | The material is discussed and analysed in order to identify what it is necessary to know in order to solve the problem , and hence manage patient care . |
| 5 | The important thing for the conductor is that he must learn what it is possible to ask for . |
| 6 | But if our picture of God is wrong , then our whole presupposition of what it is possible for God to be or do is correspondingly altered . |
| 7 | What emerges from this example is that there can be situations of moral dilemma which impose limits on what it is possible for someone to do . |
| 8 | This means that , before you begin to think about colours and the names of varieties , you have to be clear about what you would like to do and what it is possible to do , perhaps planting kinds and types about which you may have heard but are not familiar with and which would add variation and interest to your garden . |
| 9 | In Lothian , we are concentrating very much on what it is essential to have achieved by 1 April 1993 . |
| 10 | It 's the erm oh what it is right it 's a computer . |
| 11 | I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle . |
| 12 | If Quine and Kuhn are right , there is no longer a universal test of what is probable or what it is rational to believe on the basis of experience . |
| 13 | A further consequence is , as Bogdanor states in ‘ Britain : the Political Constitution ’ in Bogdanor , Constitutions in Democratic Politics , p. 56 , that ‘ the term ‘ unconstitutional ’ can not in Britain mean contrary to law ; instead it means contrary to convention , contrary to some understanding of what it is appropriate to do . |
| 14 | In the light of the leverage exerted on them , how do local authorities decide what it is appropriate to spend ? |
| 15 | Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’ |
| 16 | But it is not easy to do this without becoming crude , and , since the art appeals principally for its sensitiveness to what it is mocking , crudity has the effect of alienating those readers the pastiche should most attract . |
| 17 | Government on these terms is tolerable if the party in power recognises that there are limits to what it is entitled to do . ’ |
| 18 | It is obvious that the starting position affects what it is realistic to aim for . |
| 19 | starting from statements about what it is important for children to know about language : e.g. its uses in literature , language variation , bilingualism , language change , ambiguities and problems in communication , the writing system , etc. ; |
| 20 | What it is important to establish at this juncture is Nizan 's systematic refusal to countenance any form of public criticism of the internal running of the Soviet state between 1935 and 1939 . |
| 21 | What it is important to recognise here is that a text 's negotiation with the time of its historical production is a complex operation . |
| 22 | Allan argues that the very nature of friendship is one of equality and reciprocity and that this will impose limits on what it is acceptable to give or to receive . |
| 23 | We do it when we decide what it is acceptable for people to be able or unable to do . |
| 24 | This wider meaning comprehends the normative attitudes held by the people towards government , their conception of how power ought to be regulated , of what it is proper to do and not to do . |
| 25 | The question of what it is desirable for Japan to be and do deeply divides the Japanese , but few fail to acknowledge that being Japanese sets them apart . |
| 26 | What it is difficult for those from the West fully to grasp , is just how surreal life under state socialism has been , especially in the early fifties when the system reached a kind of apogee of dementia . |
| 27 | Similarly the range of tasks for which the device is required may not be known in the kind of detail which is available from comprehensive task descriptions but the designer will consider the extremes of what it is likely to be used for and the environment in which it will be used , for example designing a machine-tool for use in a factory has different requirements from designing a powered garden tool where the user could be wearing heavy gloves , will not be wearing safety-boots and will not receive any formal training . |
| 28 | Apricot are actually sending their prospective dealers on a two day up-front training course just to familiarise them with the market and what it is likely to entail . |
| 29 | If those that are knocked out have opposite signs , what remains may be close enough to what was expected for the element to ‘ guess ’ what it is supposed to do . |
| 30 | Does it do what it is supposed to do ? |