Example sentences of "[is] [conj] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A feature of all these quotes is that they conflate the social and the personal ; Vicky , for example , argues that the arts are ‘ a waste of taxpayers ’ money' and then says ‘ I could n't motivate myself to do it ’ . |
2 | The problem with ‘ infant industry ’ and other import controls is that they protect the domestic producer , whether foreign or local . |
3 | SVQs are nationally recognised awards ; their particular feature is that they incorporate the occupational standards defined by industry Lead Bodies . |
4 | An essential feature of general SVQs is that they preserve the main characteristics of occupational SVQs . |
5 | We remember the dazzling tries of Gareth Edwards , Gerald Davies and the rest but what tends to be forgotten is that they needed the Welsh forwards to pulverise their opponents into submission first . |
6 | Marx 's main quarrel with writers such as Maine is that they see the communal aspect of the descent group as growing out of the expansion of the family . |
7 | The reason I single out the engineers rather than the commentators or the producers is that they ensured the best pictures of the University Boat Race ever seen , as well as the usual smooth coverage of the Grand National . |
8 | The idea is that they feed the other side with what appears to be genuine material so as to establish their credibility and then the other side asks them to do things for them on their own home ground . |
9 | The only drawback to both the studies , by Fothergill and Gudgin , and Frost and Spence , is that they predate the economic recession of the 1980s and the reduction in public sector employment pursued by the Conservative government since 1979 . |
10 | ‘ Another thing I admired about young lads like Ken Logan , Gregor Townsend and Peter Wright is that they have the right attitude , a little bit of cockiness . |
11 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
12 | Seven out of the forty women specifically mention the pleasure they obtain from seeing a line full of clean clothes ; some explain it is because they anticipate the silent admiration of neighbours at this visible ( though shortlived ) achievement . |
13 | If I sounded dubious about The Smiths , it 's because they represented the first threat to us . ’ |
14 | I believe it 's because they have the best connections , and they 're paying the most money . |
15 | What is questionable is whether they make the best use of this information , particularly of that which , if they were competent to extract it , could be deduced from the companies ' published accounts . |