Example sentences of "[det] be [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 2 | The fossil record is full of curious plants that do not fit comfortably into classifications — this is one of the things that makes the study of fossil plants so fascinating . |
| 3 | ‘ This is one of the things she wanted me to do . |
| 4 | And this is one of the things we rarely do . |
| 5 | And of course during the strike period er this is one of the things he used to supplement our meals with you see . |
| 6 | ‘ This is one of the things I would prefer to understand . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ This is one of the things I find really amusing , ’ says Will . |
| 8 | This is one of the things that some studies have shown it to be the case , other studies have n't . |
| 9 | This is one of the things that makes the 486 so fast . |
| 10 | This is one of the things that makes the book so long . |
| 11 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 12 | ‘ This is one of the things I find really amusing , ’ says Will . |
| 13 | Right , this is one , this is one of the things which I am not happy about , with the way in which you are running your system at the moment , and that is that you 're being totally reactive . |
| 14 | And that 's you see , this is one of the things that contemporary critics , some contemporary critics could n't take , that Jane wanted Rochester as much as Rochester |
| 15 | it 's all symbolism , and this is one of the things you have to work out , to , to find out whether there is er |
| 16 | It the impetus came I think largely from feminism and it was perhaps a way of of y'know kind of erm because there was a great deal of interest , particularly in the seventies , in cataloguing and understanding the various ways in which women were oppressed and this is one of the things came to light and often through things like consciousness raising groups . |
| 17 | Now again this is one of the things we do n't really know um very much about . |
| 18 | This is one of the options open to the club after the unanimous vote by members and season ticket holders at Friday 's special general meeting against paying the £5,000 a year rent demanded by Belle Vue 's new owner David Butters . |
| 19 | This is one of the dangers of its strong political ties to one party and one politician in particular . |
| 20 | This is one of the dangers of licensing and obviously the licensee will have to be chosen with great care . |
| 21 | The reader is in league with the author ; this is one of the rules of the reading game , and best learned early . |
| 22 | Devising a system that is applicable to Ben Nevis style ice routes and Cairngorm mixed routes is difficult , but this is one of the advantages of the proposed two-tier grade . |
| 23 | But this is one of the experiences that taught me very early in my career that I must do the opposite . |
| 24 | This is one of the conclusions of an updated and extended edition of its report Overview of the European flavours and fragrances market |
| 25 | This is one of the conclusions of a family of arguments in Wittgenstein known collectively as the private language argument . |
| 26 | This is one of the abuses targeted in the English Law Society 's current ‘ Anti-Discrimination ’ paper . |
| 27 | This is one of the perks . |
| 28 | This is one of the reasons why Chomsky ( 1959 ) was able to launch such a devastating attack on radical behaviourism . |
| 29 | This is one of the reasons why I set up my Foundations . |
| 30 | This is one of the reasons why anyone who works for himself should make sure that he is fully covered by insurance providing for loss of earnings during a long-term illness , as well as insurance against the possibility that he might not be able to work again after such an illness . |