Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pers pn] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose we believe that the snow is what is muffling the sound of the traffic , or that flipping the switch made the windscreen wipers start to work , or that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 2 | This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it . |
| 3 | It is this : saying that the character of ‘ mental representations ’ ( beliefs and imaginings , for example ) can be understood only in terms of a history of activity , or that it is the subject 's conception of himself as active in relation to the world which gives these ‘ representations ’ their ‘ content ’ or ‘ semantics ’ ( I hope to have shown something like this ) is simply irrelevant to the mind-body problem . |
| 4 | David established that erm in Isaiah , two twenty two , it says Seize Eve from man , and this is one of the prophecies that that David showed us that er shows the man , or the women , that they have to leave their wife or If it 's the woman , she has to leave her husband and her and her boyfriend and become his wife . |
| 5 | A confession will now be excluded if it is the result of ‘ oppression ’ or if it is the consequence of ‘ anything said or done which was likely , in the circumstances existing at the time , to render [ it ] unreliable ’ ( emphasis added ) . |
| 6 | She did n't know if she was rocking or if it was the room . |
| 7 | The trick is if you go away it does n't look like you have , and erm the same thing happens in a design studio , or if you 're the art director of a publication or of a book publisher , that everybody works together so it looks like it 's not all the same person doing everything . |
| 8 | If the wife is unable to produce eggs , or if she is the carrier of a serious genetic abnormality , the surrogate mother may also be the genetic mother of the child , and the spermatozoa may be donated by the commissioning woman 's husband , either by in vitro fertilization or through intercourse . |
| 9 | Like Brillat-Savarin 's famous fondue and the fonduta of Piedmont , the fondue of Franche-Comté is really a cream of eggs and cheese ( not , be it noted , scrambled eggs and cheese ) and has been rejected , I fancy , as being unauthentic either because it is more difficult to cook correctly than the Swiss version or because it is the cheese purveyors rather than the egg-marketeers who have been on the job . |
| 10 | This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution . |
| 11 | Does n't matter whether it 's the er whether it 's the person who does the short list or whether it 's the Home Secretary himself or whether it 's the other members of the authorities such as the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh would prefer in his amendment . |
| 12 | Whether it was the unsavoury reputation of the government of Lloyd George ; or whether it was the division in the party between the followers of Lloyd George and the followers of Asquith ; or whether it was the aftermath of universal suffrage and the desire of the working man for a party which he could call his own — it now looked certain that the party division of the country would no longer lie between Liberal and Conservative but in a wider gulf between Conservative and Labour , with the Liberal Party on the sideline . |
| 13 | Whether it was the wishes of the archdiocese ; or whether it was the inarticulate growls of air-marshals ; or whether it was the judgement that someone of 73 carries too many years to move to big new work ; or whether someone among Eden 's advisers thought scholarship important for some bishops — Eden rejected Fisher 's preference that Ramsey should go to London . |
| 14 | Whether it was the unsavoury reputation of the government of Lloyd George ; or whether it was the division in the party between the followers of Lloyd George and the followers of Asquith ; or whether it was the aftermath of universal suffrage and the desire of the working man for a party which he could call his own — it now looked certain that the party division of the country would no longer lie between Liberal and Conservative but in a wider gulf between Conservative and Labour , with the Liberal Party on the sideline . |
| 15 | We were the first union in nineteen seventy six to come out with our policy on the then Race Relations Act it 's always been a trade union issue whether it was the trade unions in Germany in the twenties and thirties fighting Hitlerism and Nazi-ism or whether it was the trade unions fighting Moseley and his black shirts in Britain it has always been part of our ideals and principles . |
| 16 | It is not suggested that the money belongs to the former regime of Siad Barre , nor that it is the property of a government or governmental agency rather than state property belonging to the Republic . |
| 17 | Er as a result of the success we 've now got to go back and revisit it , I mean Ian you know has been leading in from from this office er and that it 's the person contact which counts for so much . |
| 18 | By implication , the Constitution recognises that contemporary Mexican society is divided into classes , and that it is the function of the State to protect one class against another . |
| 19 | Tullock ( 1971 ) , like Disraeli , notes that the top and bottom of the income distribution may have interests in common and that it is the middle ( or median ) individual , or more loosely groups , who wield the power . |
| 20 | Is it not clear that , in the light of all these industrial failures , it is the failure of the Government which really needs to be brought to account , and that it is the Government 's task to put things right ? |
| 21 | This suggests feminism is crucial to attain women 's real and recognised participation in development , and that it is the way forward for women 's development . |
| 22 | Barclay ( 1978 ) argues that the existence of surplus profits in the financial services industry will attract new entrants , and that it is the influx of new entrants that tend to cause problems for regulators . |
| 23 | By contrasting the doctor 's concentration on physical ailments with the CAB worker 's lengthy advice session , there may have been an unintentional implication that CAB workers see their major role as counsellor and that it is the counselling role that is time consuming . |
| 24 | Marr ( 1982 ) and others have argued that there is , and that it is the fact that edges are associated points in the image where the intensity is changing most rapidly . |
| 25 | There is much evidence to suggest ( as we have indicated in Chapter 8 on education ) that considerable potential talent is wasted , and that it is the stratification system itself which restricts the development of potentially talented members of society from the lower orders . |
| 26 | Will he agree that inward investment is due to the activities of the Welsh Development Agency , some of the lowest wages in Britain and high levels of skills , and that it is the quality of the Welsh work force as much as anything else that has brought inward investment into Wales ? |
| 27 | There are some , he continued , ‘ so deranged , not only in religion but who in all things reveal their monstrous nature , that they will say that the sun does not move , and that it is the earth which shifts and turns . ’ |
| 28 | Whilst therefore making full allowance for the diversity of gifts God has given to his Church in the varying capacities he has accorded to different members , Paul insists that the Spirit creates unity , and that it is the job of the Christians to keep that unity and not spoil it . |
| 29 | Making it clear that there could be no question of a ceasefire , Foreign Minister Moumin Bahdon Farah said on Jan. 5 that the FRUD was a foreign invading force , and that it was the government 's duty to continue to defend the unity and sovereignty of the country . |
| 30 | And that it was the success of the sweet shop that had enabled her great-grandfather to buy this end of the business . |