Example sentences of "[pron] is [conj] [det] [noun pl] " 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 Or is this line of thought simply a rationalization of the truth , which is that these days she and Charles disagree about almost everything ?
3 One is that such policies produce an extension of economic freedom and , thereby , political freedom .
4 It is that such questions can only be properly pursued in the company of the disciplinary studies .
5 the real politics of it is that those labels are attached , and you know that as well as I do .
6 Some groups of pieces may still form parts of the picture , but the more you shake the box , the more likely it is that these groups will get broken up and the pieces will be in a completely jumbled state in which they do n't form any sort of picture .
7 It is that these programmes , and the plutonium economy they seek to bring into being , encourage the Russian nuclear industry to think of plutonium as valuable .
8 erm Clevedon , or wherever it is that these guys hang out .
9 It is because such equalities are therefore not worth investigation ( they are all false ! ) that a totally different interpretation is usually attached to the statement
10 It is because such interfaces are believed to be dangerous that men act as they do in ritual situations .
11 This does not seem to be because the UK has more crime , or more serious crime , than comparable countries ; rather it is because more offenders are sent to custody , and for longer periods , in the UK than elsewhere .
12 It is because those Governments have been arguing for coal utilisation while our Government have sat on their hands wanting to take a swipe at miners and their communities .
13 Where the status of older people is low , it is because these attitudes determine that it will be low , not because it is a natural consequence of the ageing process .
14 It is because these qualities are so abundantly visible in photography today that the medium has some claim on our attention : photography still has much to tell us about the way the world looks and the experience of living in it .
15 It is because these principles have been lost that much modern architecture is criticized : there is no link with or respect for Nature .
16 The question before me is whether these assignments did have their intended effect for compensation purposes .
17 Consequently , all that embryology tells us is that both areas are part of the neocortex .
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