Example sentences of "of what it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 2 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 3 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 4 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
| 5 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 6 | We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ . |
| 7 | That it does so , so profoundly , is a vital part of what it is for . |
| 8 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
| 9 | First we need a proper idea of what it is we are seeking to explain . |
| 10 | Analysis of the light absorbed by the atmosphere of Mars reveals a picture of what it is made of ; it matches the gas in the meteorites . |
| 11 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 12 | Being ‘ sinful ’ and ‘ just ’ is not the equivalent of having your cake and eating it , but an existential awareness of what it is to be a human being in a sinful and fallen world . |
| 13 | I have admired her greatly as someone who has an absolutely clear sense of what it is she is trying to achieve . |
| 14 | We are very aware of what it is costing parents to send children here . |
| 15 | Have they any idea of what it is like to re-tune at 70-plus miles an hour ? |
| 16 | If you put that depth of knowledge with the normal Wedding Present , you can see the talent , musicianship and understanding of what it is they are doing , ’ he says . |
| 17 | And then the dark-greens are by no means united in forming a simple statement of what it is to be an out-and-out green . |
| 18 | The type of answer required will be given by the answerer 's perception of what it is that is making the questioner curious . |
| 19 | Teachers and schools are of necessity partners in the business of curriculum reform and partners must set forth on an enterprise with an understanding of what it is about , and a certain confidence in the policies they pursue . |
| 20 | Though our modern technology and civilization is based largely upon our ability to harness the electron , conventional physics still has no real perception of what it is we have got our hands on . |
| 21 | We have no mental conception of what it is like to perceive the world through antennae . |
| 22 | Fury at the behaviour of the other , or at what the other symbolizes , can be a desperate attempt to get physically and emotionally closer by sharing the experience of what it is like to be battered . |
| 23 | This is not the basis of the Catholic position which is instead concerned with the nature of what it is to be a priest . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He observes people and places with a wry and uncanny sense of what it is that matters about them . |
| 26 | Not more of the same — a narrowing down of what it is to be British , and a belief that to promote good race relations you have to keep black people out . |
| 27 | ‘ If the public saw this film they would get a much better idea of what it is like to be disabled , ’ he said . |
| 28 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
| 29 | But this transformation is merely asserted by Althusser 's claim of the epistemological break — he fails to describe the transformed practice , that of science , except in terms of what it is not ( i.e. ideological practice ) . |
| 30 | But such emotions are themselves informed by the way in which we see the world , by our conceptions of what it is that we find desirable or fearful . |