Example sentences of "[verb] [is] that [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's erm in fact a quote from Wilson , the founder of Socio-biology , the mo in other words modern er Darwinism as oppo as , as a applied to animal behaviour and Wilson 's point in saying that sex is an anti-social force in evolution was to suggest that what is really happening is that if natural selection is a question of the reproductive success of individual genes , then individuals should be motivated to produce as many copies of those genes as they possibly can , and that will inevitably bring them into competition with other members of the species who wan na do exactly the same thing . |
| 2 | What no one seems to have noticed is that if subliminal advertising worked , recall measures were to a significant extent irrelevant . |
| 3 | Another point to remember is that when weak-form words whose spelling begins with ‘ h ’ ( e.g. ‘ her ’ , ‘ have ’ ) occur at the beginning of a sentence , the pronunciation is with initial h , even though this is usually omitted in other contexts . |
| 4 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
| 5 | What I 'm trying to say is that when two people who neither like nor trust each other are thrust together , then something 's got to give . |
| 6 | In fact the rule fails to show the full complexity of the morpheme boundary constraint ; what appears to happen is that if another syllable intervenes raising and lengthening fails , unless that syllable is an inflectional morpheme . |
| 7 | Perhaps the best one can say is that when such heroes die they go , in Tolkien 's opinion , neither to Hell nor Heaven , but to Limbo : ‘ to my fathers ’ , as Théoden says , ‘ to sit beside my fathers , until the world is renewed ’ , to quote Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit , perhaps at worst to wait with the barrow-wight ‘ Where gates stand for ever shut , till the world is mended ’ . |
| 8 | What it seems to mean is that if this pump had been required in an emergency , it would not have been immediately available and although , after a lifetime in industry , I know that such errors and failure can and do happen , there is really no room for such occurrences in nuclear generation . |