Example sentences of "or what is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What counts for the sake of higher education is the student 's ability to understand what is learned or what is done , to conceptualise it , to grasp it under different aspects , and to take up critical stances in relation to it . |
| 2 | Choreographers should understand that counting beats or what is called the measure of the music is not dance rhythm . |
| 3 | This limitation in time is most clearly seen in the case of a life estate , whether it be an estate held for the life of the tenant , or what is called an estate pur autre vie , one held for the life or lives of some other person or persons . |
| 4 | That is not to say that we shall take dispositional mental facts or what is called the unconscious or the subconscious to be " another realm of consciousness " that we shall suppose there is consciousness and then inaccessible consciousness and then the brain , the latter involving dispositional mental facts . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not find any precise definition of the term , it is not either in law or commerce a strictly technical term , or what is called a term of art . ’ |
| 6 | There has been some suggestion that computer trading techniques have been partly responsible for the crash ( or what is called programme trading ) . |
| 7 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 8 | Erm the er most important item I think Chairman is the work programme for the future year which commences at erm about twelve and forms the second half of the report and I would be very happy to deal with any questions and it is very clearly in the light of things that we 've already said , the first part of er that latter half of the report er which er emphasises the erm principal activities er to the department er that of strategic policy in paragraphs thirteen one , thirteen two and thirteen three are therefore perhaps the areas to which I would er draw you attention er most , but the report as whole is er I hope a reasonably succinct summary of what has gone on or what is proposed to be done and er in order to avoid simply what is already in the report , I , I would leave it at that point and say I 'm happy to deal with any questions . |
| 9 | Large and uncompromisingly rectangular , it was built of granite , or what is known as granite in these parts . |
| 10 | But sometimes the problem lies in our assuming that religious concepts have the same meaning for different people , when in fact there are grossly different understandings , even within Christianity , of who or what is meant by God — to take only the most basic example . |
| 11 | Bacharach and Lawler ( 1980 ) distinguish between what they call the bases of power ( or what is controlled that enables behaviour to be changed ) and sources of power ( or how individuals or groups come to control the bases of power ) . |
| 12 | I listened with great interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) when he recounted all the difficulties that one experiences in that unhappy country , or what is left of it at the moment . |
| 13 | The aim of knowledge-seeking will depend on what is important for or what is valued by the individual or community in question . |