Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said it was difficult for the jury to isolate the narrow questions that they were going to have to decide , which is whether these officers had er fabricated notes of an interview with one of the Birmingham Six , from all the information that they had . |
| 2 | I think there 's a more serious thing that we have n't actually touched on which is that many people feel that they are discriminated against when they go for certain posts |
| 3 | ‘ It fails to meet the central question in Scottish politics which is that any change which is to be meaningful must involve the transfer of political and legislative authority from Westminster to a parliament elected in Scotland by Scots . |
| 4 | Or is this line of thought simply a rationalization of the truth , which is that these days she and Charles disagree about almost everything ? |
| 5 | And there 's another side to that which is that some people in the statutory provision are in it for the money , for their careers , for empire building and so on . |
| 6 | If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is . |
| 7 | If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is . |
| 8 | The only requirement regarding the software itself is that each file should contain a module header . |
| 9 | One is that such policies produce an extension of economic freedom and , thereby , political freedom . |
| 10 | One is that younger children ask as many questions as older children but do not get the degree of cooperative response from their partners . |
| 11 | One is that any attempt to draw a line between the meaning of a word and ‘ encyclopaedic ’ facts concerning the extra-linguistic referents of the word would be quite arbitrary ; another is that there is no motivation for isolating ‘ pragmatic meaning ’ as a separate domain of lexical meaning . |
| 12 | One is whether binary oppositions exist in language to be discovered , or whether they are constructed as a convenient method of analysing language . |
| 13 | One is if local elements are arranged in parallel with independent access to the output mechanisms . |
| 14 | There 's that much , there 's that many people out of work , there 's and |
| 15 | There is but one objective — to find the cause of the accident — and all parties are equally interested in establishing that without distortion or national bias . |
| 16 | There is but one restraint on design and that is that the sail height should be greater than 2 metres or 78¾ inches . |
| 17 | There is but one type of work which police everywhere enjoy , and that is active crime-fighting on the streets ( for example see Ekblom and Heal 1982 ; Ericson 1982 ; Holdaway 1983 ; Manning 1977 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b ; Punch 1979a ; Reiner 1978 , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way … |
| 19 | Yet apart from the story of his binding , a long account of the finding of a wife for him , for the bulk of which he is off stage , and a story about him on his death-bed which is primarily about his sons , Jacob and Esau , there is but one chapter devoted to him ( ch. |
| 20 | A labourer and his family — in all eight persons — are the occupiers of this hovel , in which there is but one bedroom for their accommodation . |
| 21 | Then came a question on the size of the Balm of Gilead Fir in America and which sort of soil suited it best , ‘ for there is but one place , in England , where the trees live more than ten or twelve years . ’ |
| 22 | The Hebrew scriptures contained prescriptions that enforced a separateness and particularity of the Jewish people , in tension with the universalism of monotheistic belief : if there is but one God , he is Lord of all peoples , even if some of them feel after him more coherently than others . |
| 23 | While it is undoubtedly true that Hindus say there are many gods they also declare that there is but one God , Iśwara , Devādhideva , who is God of gods . |
| 24 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Well , well , well , Captain , ’ said Mayor Mutton when the laughter ceased , ‘ So you are apprehended at last … caught in the very act of importing illicit French liquor into His Majesty 's Realm , a heinous crime for which there is but one penalty . ’ |
| 26 | And then , what they were wanting to get across , Hang on then , the reason why it 's put there is that most people are , are now acutely conscious of , of having too much fat , too much milk , too much this , that and the other , and it , and it grabs some people and it 's a legitimate way in . |
| 27 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 28 | But the easiest to explain it is the fact there is that less gravity on this side holding the sea water in . |
| 29 | It 's that same adhesive — it looks as if it will have to be withdrawn ; there 's definitely some harmful irritant in it . ’ |
| 30 | well over , over a period , it 's and other things too but they sa they said that murals and proggie mats are involved in it . |