Example sentences of "what is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is politely and euphemistically called ‘ adjustment ’ is the next piece in the jigsaw of a declining Third World . |
| 2 | President Bush 's recent pronouncements on what is just and moral during the Gulf war left me feeling empty and bitter . |
| 3 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 4 | In controversial matters such as care involved in industrial relations there is room for difference of opinion as to what is expedient , what is just and what is morally justifiable . |
| 5 | In controversial matters such as are involved in industrial relations there is room for differences of opinion as to what is expedient , what is just and what is morally justifiable . |
| 6 | What is generally and inherently good about getting true beliefs is that they 're useful , in the following sense : truth is that property of our beliefs which ensures that the actions they make us perform will succeed . |
| 7 | What is theologically and pastorally appropriate in the eastern Mediterranean and the Ukraine can not be theologically wrong and pastorally unsuitable anywhere else . |
| 8 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |
| 9 | He is saying goodbye to what is past and irretrievably lost . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps we could ignore what is past and start again ? ’ he suggested . |
| 11 | There is no need to write copious notes that repeat what is clearly and carefully published in print . |
| 12 | Gide was , at least at that time , the sexual tourist of which Said and others have written , his opportunity to come and go enhanced by what is aptly if euphemistically called independent means . |
| 13 | Moreover ( and this point has already been appreciated by alert education advisers ) in-service training within the school does not require extra staff , extra equipment or extra classroom space ; it makes use of what is immediately and necessarily available . |
| 14 | infinity and paradise , what is beyond and what above … |
| 15 | To ensure effective control , the number of subordinates and tasks over which a manager has supervisory responsibilities should therefore be restricted to what is physically and mentally possible . |
| 16 | This chapter has offered a summary of what is more or less evident when one looks at teachers ' lives today . |
| 17 | What is more or less likely to have happened ? |
| 18 | What is more or less manageable on an average wage , like paying the TV licence or buying shoes , causes a major cash flow crisis when you 're living on supplementary benefit . |
| 19 | A ‘ system ’ is such a bounded entity that it is possible to differentiate between what is inside and what it outside . |
| 20 | Once more , the question of what is morally or ideologically correct is not at issue here : political rectitude is not a consideration since the politics of ‘ race relations ’ are not articulated and can not therefore be interrogated . |
| 21 | As people get wealthier right , one of the , they not only demand more goods , but they demand a wider variety of what is essentially or what can be classified as the same good . |
| 22 | In an early comment upon denudation chronology Day Kimball ( 1948 ) proposed that historical geology could be divided into two parts : stratigraphy , which deals with what is there and denudation chronology , which is concerned with what is n't ! |
| 23 | Bombay-based Anil put India 's failure to exploit its manpower and mind power and its lack of excellence in sport , economics and the arts down to a ‘ Learn what is there and do n't question it ’ attitude . |
| 24 | And yet there is here , as with so many issues surrounding Karajan 's work and reputation , the wider question of the degree to which we hear what is there as opposed to what we imagine is there . |
| 25 | The reader may feel perplexity , but the text will not amplify what is there or rewrite itself in a simpler form . |