Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] [conj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Which is recognizing that children play a vital r role in a lot of coun in a lot of families .
2 He banishes Hippolytus and prays for his death , which is granted when Poseidon sends a sea monster to upturn the young man 's chariot .
3 They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past .
4 If deconstruction in a purest sense is only of limited interest to a study which is asserting that texts emerge out of a particular culture called the English Renaissance , it is also true that , fortunately , there is little pure deconstruction about .
5 This marks their first exchange of vows , which is reiterated when Lise pretends to harness Colas by the ribbons to a trap of which she is the driver .
6 The first is traditionalism , by which is meant that Conservatives have an attachment to established customs and institutions , and , as a corollary , a hostility to ‘ sudden , precipitate and revolutionary change ’ .
7 Nobody is spared as firm goes bust every ten minutes
8 Answer : nobody is denying that thoughts have qualitative content .
9 She is insisting that Gerry finds them a ‘ love nest ’ a safe distance from his wife .
10 ‘ You think the valley itself is corrupted when strangers visit it . ’
11 One is pictured as mum exchanges glances with her llama neighbour and Geoff Edwards , who is helping to look after them , said : ‘ They are really delighting the young visitors jumping about in the unusually warm and sunny weather . ’
12 No one is saying that Cairo does not need the repairs , but the disparity does show the imbalance that arises when aid goes to urban , high-technology programmes .
13 It 's argued that metering offers consumers an incentive to save water , allowing you to limit your bill by using less .
14 It 's accepted that doctors do n't look after their own families .
15 It 's said that Beethoven had green eyes .
16 ‘ Yes , I 'm afraid it 's locked and Francis had the key . ’
17 It 's claimed that Gilbey spoke to the Princess of Wales , who was using an ordinary domestic telephone .
18 It 's claimed that Gilbey spoke to the Princess of Wales , who was using an ordinary domestic telephone .
19 Years later it is discovered that Grom reached the Elven Kingdoms of Ulthuan , causing great destruction until finally defeated by the High Elves .
20 It is hypothesised that words processed at deeper levels will be better recognised than those processed to only a shallow level and that reaction times will be longer at deeper levels of processing .
21 But in these papers it is stated that Tyndale headed his written defence , ‘ Faith alone justifies before God ’ , and that among the questions debated were worship of saints , the Sacraments and the authority of the Pope .
22 It is puzzling when people say I write like this one and that one and all such different kinds of writers and so many of them , and it makes me feel I am nothing in myself . ’
23 The effect of this when it is accepted is very far reaching because the more an idea is tested the more it is validated and criticism becomes not a threat but an opportunity to strengthen the idea ; and what is more important scientists cease to have the same proprietorial attitude towards in idea .
24 There can be no good reason to object to this when it is recognised that efficiency incorporates personal factors such as safety , health and quality of working life as well as system factors such as productivity and quality of work .
25 It is said that Arabs have no compunction about reneging on a deal , that they will blow hot and cold , use the phrase ‘ God willing ’ to suit their own purpose , say ‘ yes ’ when they mean ‘ no ’ and generally confuse their more direct Western counterparts .
26 It is said that Farafrans know the night sky better than most people know the rooms of their own home .
27 Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here .
28 It is said that Britain has become a country of High Mass Consumption .
29 It is said that Ferdinand made all three brothers promise to defer to Rodrigo del Bivar , putting him virtually in loco parentis to the infantas , though he was still only of an age with them .
30 It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do .
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