Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quicker thinking readers will probably have noticed what I did n't , which is that the first appearance of ‘ adverb ’ is a mistaken correction by a typesetter or proofreader of the correctly wrong ‘ abverb ’ . |
| 2 | Are not we entitled to be told the whole truth , as revealed by Greenpeace , which is that the total lifetime cost of Trident will be more than £23 billion ? |
| 3 | There is something more important , which is that the essential idea of the background view does not in itself conflict with our necessitation view . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to want ’ , the underground man 's lonely cry , is also his though he does n't utter it , and biting the governor 's car , like sticking the tongue out , is a one-against-all drumming of the heels of consciousness — but again with a difference which is that the biting extends beyond the notional ; it happens and it hurts , though it 's a minor foray compared with Raskolnikov 's spectacular eruption into actuality with the murder . |
| 5 | Such interrogatories shall bear a note at the end setting out the effect of RSC Ord 26 , r 3(2) , which is that the opposing party may within 14 days apply to vary , or have withdrawn , the interrogatories . |
| 6 | This is due to many factors , one of the more obvious of which is that the cumulative physical demands of manual work may well affect the worker 's health . |
| 7 | Hence fair play , one of the rules of which is that the eventual murderer shall be one of a small group , delimited in some way . |
| 8 | The author stresses that the nature of assessment is a complex activity requiring skill and being more than the gathering of information which is but a first stage in the process . |
| 9 | These authors argue that in the ‘ brideservice societies ’ , a category encompassing the relatively egalitarian hunting and gathering peoples and those that have a mixed economy of hunting , gathering , small-scale horticulture , the association of sexuality and violence , which is but a particular type of sexual oppression , plays a central role in all political and much social action . |
| 10 | Alternatively , to avoid this people come to feel omnipotent which is but a short step from wreaking the kind of destruction that offers little hope of remaking life at work anew . |
| 11 | My suggestion to you is that the only connection between them is basic human nature itself , namely that the heart of man is incurably evil . |
| 12 | One point that may help you is that the lower the potency the more frequently it is likely to need repeating . |
| 13 | One is that a long tail indicates an extremely fit male : to grow such a tail and carry it around will take extra energy . |
| 14 | When it comes to flavour , the difference between a TFTA turkey and a standard one is that a traditional bird is hung for at least seven days . |
| 15 | One is that no actual endangerment is required : the explosion need only have been inherently likely to endanger life , and the offence is committed whether or not anyone 's life was put in danger . |
| 16 | One is that the small river or stream was low one night as it was a particularly dry period , the innkeeper deposited the body as per usual , but by the morning it had not drifted away . |
| 17 | The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing . |
| 18 | An important one is that the possible substitutes for man ( preserving grammaticality , but not necessarily semantic normality ) are virtually identical in the two positions . |
| 19 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 20 | One is that the present level of unemployment must concern the health service ( and 1 have said nothing about other social problems ! ) . |
| 21 | One is that the bigger the event ( up to about 3,000 people ) the more it costs proportionally . |
| 22 | One is that the light-sensitive pigments of the eye could also act as magnetic sense organs . |
| 23 | One is that the statutory services are not uniformly ideal and beyond reproach and those of us who have worked in and with them would acknowledge that . |
| 24 | Of ‘ all the oppositions that furrow Freudian thought ’ it can be said that ‘ one is but the other different and deferred , one differing and deferring the other ’ ( Margins of Philosophy , 17 — 18 ) . |
| 25 | There is though a real danger that Galway may have already played their All Ireland final , and that after their sterling endeavour against Tipperary they wo n't have sufficient left in the tank . |
| 26 | I 've heard you selling the guy that showed you these two manifestos one by the Tories and one by the Labour and the one that stuck in my mind it 's that the Labour Party will have a minimum wage to comply with the rest of Europe . |
| 27 | People walking in but we need to need to clearly define the areas and if it 's that the national account department at has this list of corporate clients then maybe it makes sense that the national account manager responsible for deals with those also |
| 28 | If you 're at all interested in that area then I have got you a reference I can give you to hand but it 's but a great deal of er architecture , certainly the thirties , forties , fifties reflected corporate status , corporate identity . |
| 29 | So they wo n't do that , and of course it 's and the main thing that costs is the transport is every time you go on a bus you 're down to whatever it is two hundred pounds , and because of the two areas that we use , I mean we 're not gon na , I mean I do n't really know |
| 30 | I suspect it 's because the 1992 election is the first in which the BBC is following ITN 's lead by using exit polls . |