Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [pron] [is] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I suggest that it is the fox because we 're told it has a sudden sharp hot stink the fox . |
| 2 | The fiduciary controls on managerial discretion provide that it is the duty of the directors to act in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 3 | You make everything sound rosy , then you say that something 's the matter . |
| 4 | Such hidden assertions can easily be discovered , but it is less easy to notice two further presuppositions in the sentence : " It is possible to evaluate texts ( i.e. say that one is the 'best' ) " and " It is possible for texts to reflect social attitudes " . |
| 5 | How can the hon. Gentleman say that it is the Government 's fault when someone does not pay taxes ? |
| 6 | I only say that it is the route of the Council of Europe that has been recognised by the Community as leading to Community membership itself . |
| 7 | Acknowledge that it is the will of God for His children to have health and strength to carry out His work . |
| 8 | I sometimes forget that it is the day of the year when I was made a bishop . |
| 9 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |
| 10 | Proponents of this view contend that it is the intensity of social deprivation and its institutionalization in centralized state policies , production processes , and social attitudes that constitute a sufficiently novel form of structured dependence to render it qualitatively different from reliance by elderly people on Poor Law , charity , or family in the past . |
| 11 | If we take a social view of language , and accept that it is the possession of the community as well as internal to speakers ' minds , we must be prepared to accept that reversal of merger can take place in this way , so long as speakers know that meat is an alternating class . |
| 12 | This is because both frontbenches accept that it is the function of the House to permit the two sides to state their cases , and each party in power has respected the right of the Opposition to determine the subjects of debate for about one-third of the total time of the House . |
| 13 | ‘ It is absolutely crystal clear that he is the man who did these things , ’ said Mr Brown . |
| 14 | On Europe , to put it beyond all doubt in this House , in the country , and on the continent , will my right hon. Friend reaffirm that it is the policy of Her Majesty 's Government that Britain shall not go down the route of a federal Europe and that it is for Britain to decide on the future of her own currency ? |
| 15 | Having listened in the past to some of their recordings , I suspect that it 's the RTH/Iseler combination that we have here but , which ever it is , the Toronto Choir sing with gutsy tone in items such as Haydn 's ‘ The Heavens are Telling ’ ( from The Creation ) and with some finesse sensitivity in more contemplative music by , for instance , Fauré and Vaughan Williams . |
| 16 | Harmony , by contrast , he sees as a corrupt and mediated construct because it is the product of articulation ( i.e. of differentiation ) . |
| 17 | This problem is not so common with the bell and pad as it is the alarm doing the waking of the child and the child is already wet . |
| 18 | It is also significant that the oddness of 9a can be reduced by modifying table semantically : The table with the electronic eye saw Arthur ( we know that it is the meaning of the modifying phrase which is important because the reduction in oddness depends on the open set items the phrase contains — compare The table with the melamine top saw Arthur ) ; no similar modification of bake in 11a , or table in 12a , can reduce the degree of deviance of these sentences . |
| 19 | I like that it 's the smell of them ! |
| 20 | And if the breeders reply that it is the puppy dealers ' fault , how could any self-respecting breeder sell puppies to dealers in the first place ? |
| 21 | And I think that 's a , you know and it 's the fact that society allows a lot of abuse to happen to women and therefore it 's not seen as hatred to women , it 's seen as perfectly acceptable . |
| 22 | I know but it 's the way I did it . |
| 23 | Now he 's been taken ill with this so , she hopes that he do n't and get behind you know but it 's the head in it ? |
| 24 | This is not merely prejudice since it is the case that women 's position in the family is rarely irrelevant to their position in the public world . |
| 25 | And , while she was staring at him thunderstruck , ‘ I never know whether it 's the man you congratulate or the woman , but anyway , I 'm dead chuffed about your engagement . ’ |
| 26 | Note that it is the responsibility of the LIFESPAN Manager to ensure that the storage directory name is valid , i.e. that the directory indicated does exist , and that it is unique to a Charge Code , otherwise problems may be encountered when LIFESPAN attempts to create and access modules . |
| 27 | Note that it is the heel which rests on the board , not the whole foot . |
| 28 | Note that it is the use of the passive structure rather than the lexical item ‘ said ’ which signals this ‘ adverse ’ meaning of criticism . |
| 29 | Followers of Koresh believe that he is the Messiah and that the end of the world is near . |
| 30 | This proposal has been rejected by Environment Minister David Trippier , who said in a letter to the RWMAC : " We firmly believe that it is the responsibility of the originator of the wastes to find the means of disposal " . |