Example sentences of "on what [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second series of questions focuses on what 's really Happening here as the problem . |
| 2 | When I first put the boots on I found them surprisingly stiff — given this solid feel I wondered why there was n't a traditional square cut heel on what 's quite a heavily cleated waterproof sole . |
| 3 | Mrs Buxton , aged 82 , plans to travel with the containers : ‘ We have been running as a charity for about 10 years and I usually go over with the donations to cities such as Krakow and report back on what is badly needed over there . ’ |
| 4 | Undersoil heating at other grounds meant the Premier League was confident of promoting a full Boxing Day programme on what is traditionally its best-attended day of the year . |
| 5 | Kempton , Newton Abbot and Wincanton keep the industry moving on what is traditionally one of the busiest days of the year . |
| 6 | With her stable in tip-top form , and plenty of improvement sure to surface , Relatively Special looks a cracking bet on what is traditionally a tough card for punters . |
| 7 | Even so , the broad-ranging debate as to whether — and if so how much — the increase of power play through modern technology in recent years is damaging tennis as a spectacle , following hard on the controversial recommendation from the Rules Committee of the International Tennis Federation that the ‘ let ’ in serving should be abolished , ( see Editor 's Main Point ) , certainly helped focus minds on what is clearly an important issue . |
| 8 | More important was the classic work on what is probably our best contemporary geosynclinal area-the Indonesian Archipelago . |
| 9 | It has been commonly assumed that in controversy even if we could finally agree on what is objectively so , the moral debate has not yet started ; you can still find good what I find bad , and unless we discover common principles from which to argue , the debate can never begin at all . |
| 10 | But the present argument has led to the opposite conclusion ; when we reach agreement , by public tests , on what is objectively so — which includes how we do respond when we see the situation as it is — the debate is over . |
| 11 | The spectacle of inner city regeneration offers a powerful medium for a political commitment to a strategy based on what is superficially market led growth . |
| 12 | President Bush 's recent pronouncements on what is just and moral during the Gulf war left me feeling empty and bitter . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , this further emphasises the separateness of old people ( not dissimilar to mothers of young children ) precisely because they so often do not share in this extended range of opportunities and are more dependent on what is locally available . |
| 14 | It is a generally held perception that formal assessment has hindered and distorted work in the secondary classroom through laying too much emphasis on what is easily examinable , regardless of its relevance as musical experience . |
| 15 | Indeed , Winkler argues that such devices ‘ put a patina of legality on what is fundamentally a destruction of the rule of law ’ ( 1977 , p. 51 ) . |
| 16 | • The Glasgow Sunday Mail reports on what is really a fishkeeping success — trying to turn it into a horror story . |
| 17 | The whole character of faith is that it does not rest on itself , nor on what can be seen as an extension of itself , but on what is quite other than itself , by which its own emptiness is filled . |
| 18 | An emphasis on technical activities and on what is often , essentially , administration implicitly denies that staff are an asset . |
| 19 | Although prosecution followed by a fine can bring home to parents the reality of their child 's non-attendance problem , a financial penalty is likely to be inappropriate when imposed on what is often a poor family whose financial problems are already one of the factors threatening family stability . |
| 20 | It is where culture sets limits on our sexual ( reproductive ) activity and where sexual capability sets limits on what is culturally possible , that our humanity and our animality interact . |
| 21 | The economic situation may set limits on what is socially possible , but ( as Weber for one insisted ) this is equally true of the prevailing ideological situation . |
| 22 | Hence the reliance on what is socially defined as ‘ crime ’ and various forms of illegal profits . |
| 23 | I was at a loss to explain how my little story came about , as was a BR employee I asked , but another friend put his finger on what is almost certainly the reason . |
| 24 | Ethical debates about the quality of life and the limits to medical intervention are certain to become more pressing as frontiers are rolled back on what is technically possible . |
| 25 | This prohibition , however has been based on what is highly questionable . |
| 26 | Robert Rogers comments on what is commonly held to be the widespread use of metaphor among schizophrenics . |
| 27 | If you 're stuck on what is currently shareware 's most popular game get this disk and you will soon be on your way . |
| 28 | Whether the Government are Labour or Conservative , the inspector ought to have the right to comment , on , for instance , funding and on what is currently going on in the Prime Minister 's county of Cambridgeshire , where there have been some very severe reductions . |
| 29 | They seem based on what is essentially a largely Viennese-inspired ‘ received tradition ‘ tempo assumptions which go back only to the later 19th century at the earliest . |
| 30 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |