Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] is [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results , though , are generally unimpressive , mainly because — as on the Isle of Dogs , for example — lack of an overall masterplan has meant there is little cohesiveness . |
| 2 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 3 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 4 | What it should have told them is that terrorism makes it harder , not easier , to gain a hearing in a democracy . |
| 5 | Roman Catholics ‘ should be received with lenity and all meekness , not to quench with delays the feeble smoke of conformity which seemeth to breathe from them , but to build wheresoever there is any foundation ’ . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , in this case I do believe there is some value in tracing differences in the perspectives from which various groups of colleagues seemed to have developed their thinking . |