Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owing to the terrible destruction of scores , the only dramatic work of Monteverdi 's that we know between those of 1607–8 and the last two Venetian operas is a peculiar experiment ‘ in genere rappresentativo ’ , Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda , performed in the Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice in 1624 . |
| 2 | In any other situation the worst thing that can occur is that nothing happens at all . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't realize , ’ says Myra , Michael 's wife , from the far end of the sofa , ‘ the fantastic thing is that we went through all this scene twenty minutes ago , in the car on the way here . |
| 4 | One good thing is that we communicate with each other . |
| 5 | So what I would suggest is that we reply to this for you . |
| 6 | My own view is that what happened in 1987 was far worse . |
| 7 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 8 | But above all their value to user education is that they act as focal points , so that if practitioners have a problem there is an information centre or clearinghouse to take it to as a first resort . |
| 9 | One feature of the use of both dependency ratios and population projections is that they concentrate upon expected changes in structures . |
| 10 | THE trouble with debutantes , lamented Lady Tryon , chairman of yesterday 's Berkeley Dress Show , is that they come in such a peculiar range of sizes . |
| 11 | The answer to the question whether motivation arousal patterns derive from one 's past or from the situation in which one finds oneself is that they derive from both . |
| 12 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |
| 13 | A problem sometimes associated with salespeople who have worked for the same company for many years is that they rely on established customers to provide repeat orders rather than actively seeking new business . |
| 14 | One guess is that they work in strict alternation , perhaps in obedience to a monthly nerve signal from the brain . |
| 15 | What can not be denied is that they emerge from much experience in the author , and much original thought , that they are moreover integrated in a fiction which has a power independent of them . |
| 16 | Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers ; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores . |
| 17 | A business relies on a driving personality taking it forward , and the confusion about getting somebody on board who is working with you in the business and who is putting money board , is that they feel to some extent , proprietorial to that business , and you can find that that will result in those individuals who have done that tearing apart the business because they are trying to go in different directions . |
| 18 | Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion . |
| 19 | Is it possible to define what it is that they have in common ? |
| 20 | What we mainly have in answer so far , about causes and causal circumstances , is that they stand in seven connections — the last three of which are also fundamental to what will be said of nomic correlates . |
| 21 | There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester . |
| 22 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 23 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 24 | And I was just squeezin maself into a five and a half when Moira McVitie round the crescent in the cul de sac comes by and shouts out ‘ Hiya there Verena is that you trying on some fuck-me shoes for yer man gettin back . ’ |
| 25 | The received wisdom is that you knock off two letters from the French ; so 5c becomes British 5a . |
| 26 | As Cumings has pointed out , the importance of this paper is that it foreshadowed with considerable accuracy the sequence of events over the next three years , culminating in the formal establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 . |
| 27 | The sorry thing about teacher training is that it remains within such a restricting framework . |
| 28 | Another difficulty facing this definition or scope for pragmatics , is that it calls for some explicit characterization of the notion of context . |
| 29 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 30 | In fact one of the great things about this walk is that it keeps for most of the time to the shoulder of the fells so that they fall away steep sided below you giving you clear views out and down . |