Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb -s] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way in which she copes is a real test of her understanding . |
| 2 | She rarely takes the babies into the garden because of the sewage , which she claims is a regular feature of the small sandy beach in North Queensferry . |
| 3 | Indeed , it is the only occasion on which there has been a substantial national strike in support of any industrial group of workers in Britain . |
| 4 | This probably underestimates the extent to which there has been a wider shift away from direct council provision , however . |
| 5 | These fields , in which there has been a growing attempt to eradicate sex inequality , still show the persistence of women 's domestic commitments as a barrier to equality . |
| 6 | If I may hark back to the answer that I gave to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) , one of the areas on which there has been a significant concentration by the Government and the security forces in recent years is the financial resources available to terrorists — I hasten to say on both sides of the community . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe this is the only country in which there has been a national acknowledgment of God 's directing Providence in the cholera , and I believe it is not a mere outward form but that more and more are becoming every day religious . ’ |
| 8 | And the education legislation , of which there has been a considerable amount , is now much more specific . ’ |
| 9 | It also welcomes the changes in VAT , which are clearly of benefit to commerce , and the measures to encourage prompt payment of VAT , the delays in which it says are a vital factor affecting a great number of firms . |
| 10 | And the history to which it relates is a patriarchal history . |
| 11 | She says to Babur , in what she imagines is a conspiratorial whisper , ‘ I thought they were more likely to search you . ’ |
| 12 | What she needs is a hard working man who can let her blossom as a person . ’ |
| 13 | What one wants is a major library award of whatever it would cost to put a qualified librarian in . |
| 14 | He breathes , then asks in what he thinks is a gentle voice , ‘ What 's the problem Saturday ? ’ |
| 15 | Once , as Minton walked past a queue of students waiting to enter a Royal College dance , Richard Chopping heard one remark , ‘ What he needs is a good kick up the arse . ’ |
| 16 | What he finds is a bloody civil war that is the change his life forever . |
| 17 | It has done so now in response to what it feels is a growing impatience from its members with the continuing reluctance of landowners to permit access to their property . |
| 18 | The driver turns the engine over a couple of times ; says , ‘ What it needs is a little push . ' ’ |
| 19 | The environmental campaign group is to lobby shoppers on Saturday to highlight what it claims is a destructive and sometimes illegal assault on rainforests . |
| 20 | Morden , Surrey-based Short Term Rental Systems Ltd can now offer UK customers what it reckons is a unique combined hardware and software personal computer rental service , thanks to a series of agreements with WordStar International Inc , Microsoft Corp , BitStream Inc and Lotus Development Corp : users are offered a combination of Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc machines ready-loaded with the software of their choice — an 80486 machine with colour monitor , inkjet printer , WordStar word processor and Lotus spreadsheet will cost £135 ; 24 hour support is also available from Bushey , Hertfordshire-based Professional Support Centre ; the service is aimed at ‘ Small-Office-Home-Office ’ users , large corporates wanting to hire machines for project work , and hotels , exhibition and conference organisers wishing to hire out facilities to clients ; rental , naturally , has been viewed with suspicion by software companies anxious about piracy — Short Term Rental has got round this by removing the installation commands from the software it rents so preventing users from copying . |
| 21 | What it has is a big dictionary of words and synonyms classified by type ( people , locations , actions , etc ) and connected by their most likely relationships . |