Example sentences of "is [noun] [prep] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that , he wrote , is part of what the big glass itself will try to explore , with its notion of delay . |
| 2 | This qualitativeness — the ‘ manifest image of the world ’ — is irreducibly connected with what experience is subjectively like , and it is part of what is lost if consciousness is analysed away or otherwise abandoned . |
| 3 | For this is part of what ‘ democracy ’ means , or has come to mean . |
| 4 | Much of the alleged wisdom that inheres in institutions and practice is part of what she has regarded as the flabby consensus that dragged the country down . |
| 5 | With many relationships the case for self-creation is even stronger , since in them the fact that one chose to have a relationship of a certain kind and chose one 's partner is part of what makes the relationship valuable . |
| 6 | We would need their agreement to build houses outside the city boundary and you know that this is part of what the Steering Committee will propose … |
| 7 | The endurance of rivers , which is part of what makes them such a potent symbol in our culture , is also precisely the reason why they matter so much to ecologists and scientists . |
| 8 | The extreme ultraviolet is part of what physicists call the vacuum ultraviolet , wavelengths shorter than about 200 nanometres which are absorbed by air so strongly that experiments have to be performed in a vacuum . |
| 9 | This is part of what makes his eventual faith in God ( which he reaches for other reasons ) a radical reliance on God alone . |
| 10 | That stage is part of what is involved in social care planning . |
| 11 | The condition of what one says being meaningful is part of what one means . |
| 12 | In Zettel , he explicitly denies that the agreement between colour-word-users is part of what is communicated . |
| 13 | Although capping salaries is part of what they all want , many owners are convinced that only television can provide a long-term solution to the game 's financial problems . |
| 14 | ‘ And picking up things arseways is part of what it 's all about , ’ he continues . |
| 15 | ( A ) is part of what is stated by stating that rain is making the balcony wet , or causing the balcony to be wet . |
| 16 | ( B ) is part of what is stated by stating that rain would make the balcony wet . |
| 17 | This is because classically they have a well-defined location at a particular instant whose specification is part of what is involved in saying that they are in the same state of motion . |
| 18 | Putting an element in rheme position means that it is part of what the speaker has to say , and that is the very core of any message . |
| 19 | This is part of what is meant by an ontological existent ( qua item existing in the modus " per se " ) . |
| 20 | My registering its presence is part of what might be termed an " evidential event " . |
| 21 | That , after all , is part of what we mean by ‘ professor ’ : x is so on top of his or her subject that he or she has something to profess , to convey , to teach . |
| 22 | But yeah , certainly that 's one of the things that we think , is that our , er it 's our memory of our own historical life events is part of what makes us who we are . |
| 23 | The dashing cavalier , er the , Locke tells a story about someone who in their youth was a k a cavalry officer erm and how this person in later life , their memory of being a cavally off cavalry officer is part of what individuates them . |
| 24 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 25 | MacGregor , representing Norfolk South , is part of what is known as the East Anglian mafia , whose most influential member is Major himself . |
| 26 | And D is part of what Michael is saying , it gives the chair , vice-chair , opposition liaison member the discretion to allow for usually natural disasters , and we would obviously want that discretion with your support . |
| 27 | However , there is a different form of uncertainty that can not possibly help the theist 's case , and that is uncertainty about what is meant by talking about God . |
| 28 | Secondly , there is uncertainty about what can be kept electronically , and what should be kept . |
| 29 | There are questions about knowledge which may , or must , be answered using limited resources , although there is disagreement about what the available resources are . |
| 30 | Between countries , and even within them , there is disagreement about what constitutes waste and what should count as hazardous . |