Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Françoise Cribier finds one reason for the remarkable exodus of retired couples from Paris is that both man and wife need the husband to get out of the house . |
| 2 | The end result is that both dog and owner gain satisfaction and a richer existence . |
| 3 | The unavoidable fact of the matter is that both religion and secularism are stances . |
| 4 | The first is that both Labour and the Conservatives emerge more or less united — the former striking an attacking pose in the foreground , the latter stoutly closing defensive ranks behind . |
| 5 | The point I am trying to make is that both suicide of the schizoid type and anorexia nervosa involve a denial of reality which depends upon an acceptance of a split between self and body , and is only possible through paradox . |
| 6 | What he fails to add is that nowadays information is as leaky as a fistful of sand . |
| 7 | Erm I think my answer to the to the questions being thrown out by by the Senior Inspector is is that surely Government policy is to protect the countryside for its own sake , and and why is it therefore wrong for a county with erm areas of acknowledged environmental importance to try and give expression to that in in its structure plan . |
| 8 | No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist . |
| 9 | One answer is that historically Christianity has shown precious little compassion for animals anyway . |
| 10 | The fact is that neither congress nor the American people were ready in the early 1980s for the demolition of the welfare state , however much conservative theorists might believe that to be desirable . |
| 11 | It is that wherever Parliament in an earlier statute has directed its attention to an individual case and has made provision for it unambiguously , there arises a presumption that if in a subsequent statute the legislature lays down a general principle , that general principle is not to be taken as meant to rip up what the legislature had before provided for individually , unless an intention to do so is specially declared . |
| 12 | And then we can say the actual amount that we 're gon na collect is and just hand write it . |
| 13 | See how horrendous the next one is and then panic . |
| 14 | Thompson aims to raise understanding of what prejudice is and how discrimination works . |
| 15 | ‘ An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine . |
| 16 | This is because here energy levels are often depleted — either she does n't eat properly or she diets in order to keep slim . ’ |
| 17 | The reason they are hanging on until after the election is because both Labour and the Liberal Democrats are pledged to return opted-out schools to local authority control , with all that implies in terms of victimisation and possible closure . |
| 18 | This is because both recognition of the trigram and comprehension of the passage being shadowed involve linguistic ability which is specialised in the left hemisphere . |
| 19 | Maecianus reports a case in which the interpretative question is whether when speaking of ‘ sums ’ ( summae ) the testator could also be held to have had in mind non-pecuniary dispositions . |
| 20 | There is as well experience of identification of assorted beads according to shape , size and colour and ( maybe ) material — wood or plastic . |