Example sentences of "[is] [that] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is that we live in a part of the world in which many people depend on Unix — not to fight Microsoft and NT , but to earn their living — and there are too many unknowns . |
| 2 | If that is what getting engaged does to him , the pity is that we live in a monogamous society ! |
| 3 | The major difference between the American and British systems is that we vote for an MP , the party with the most MPs wins and its leader moves into Number Ten . |
| 4 | The only important thing is that we play as a team and that we win . |
| 5 | The heart of true faith is that we enter into an experience of God which takes up our whole being , emotions included . |
| 6 | One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter . |
| 7 | What is most worrying about these two episodes is that they smack of an orchestrated campaign on the part of the English rugby powers-that-be to create added tension between nations , for which Brian Moore is singularly well-equipped to be the aggressive mouthpiece . |
| 8 | Sharp 's explanation is that they travelled via an RNA copy . |
| 9 | Yet one of the striking characteristics of Shakespeare 's Sonnets is that they exist on an almost universal level ; they are generalized ( with none of the depersonalization that usually goes with generalization ) ; they are widely , perhaps indefinitely applicable . |
| 10 | One advantage of base-isolated buildings is that they move as a unit . |
| 11 | The debate as to whether this institutional framework exercised a determining ( ideological ) influence on film output has been an ongoing one , but the importance of Claire Johnston 's contribution to it in the mid seventies is that she argued for a reading of Hollywood entertainment films which made a space for ‘ collective fantasies of women 's desire ’ . |
| 12 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 13 | I was too far away to observe what colour Enid Starkie 's eyes were ; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot , walked like a scrum-half , and had an atrocious French accent . |
| 14 | ‘ The important thing is that I got in a couple of block tackles , which was significant . |
| 15 | One of my activities outside HTV , approved of by the company , is that I act as a consultant to a communication company and help to train industrialists , business executives and trade union officials who want to come to terms with the necessary techniques of appearing on television . |
| 16 | And I 'll start backwards by saying what I 'd like to see , and that is that I think with a group of women coming from such a broad spectrum , that the work we 're going to do is never going to be the same and there are going to be large areas in which we may not be able to work together . |
| 17 | All I will say is that I reject as a model of justice the view which has temporarily gained favour in many developed societies : namely , the view that each person is entitled to what he can get , and let the next man look out for himself as best he can . |
| 18 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 19 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 20 | sure , th th th that is your other option is , is that you go for a m a much more equal policy and the , the government takes money in taxation and puts it back into the , the agricultural sector . |
| 21 | ‘ A principle I have always applied in the property business is that you put in a bid that you think something is worth , and you do n't go above it . ’ |
| 22 | One of the first things you 'll realise is that you work for an organisation that has to react and respond rapidly to changing circumstances . |
| 23 | All I 'm askin' is that you stall fer a couple of hours . |
| 24 | The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species . |
| 25 | Our dilemma is that it speaks of a level of separation from the world , the flesh and human reality which has already proved far too harmful to the churches in general and for women in particular for us to consider returning to it . |
| 26 | The essence of preaching or prayer is that it asks for a response now , not later . |
| 27 | And the reason for this , is that it belongs to a tradition , a fashion if you like , of writing , which went dramatically out of , out of fashion immediately after World War One . |
| 28 | Mike Johnson , Trafalgar House 's Open Learning Manager , said ‘ The benefit of EBC is that it builds into a permanent resource library that can be continually used and referred to ’ . |
| 29 | One of the advantages of EDLIB is that it acts as a Computerized catalogue as well as an issue system , The catalogue system creates files in which each book or audiovisual item is allocated a record , which contains accession number , title , author , Dewey number , price , subject and one spare field , which can be used as another subject field . |
| 30 | The idea behind a water staircase is that it appears as a staircase of sparkling , silvery water . |