Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [is] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I can say that really what worries you is more the crime and the drugs much more than prostitution , as far as prostitution you 're saying that basically there 's a |
| 2 | Some say it is just the Asian way . |
| 3 | It 's what they say it 's just the whole business of looking at lectures for the British National Corpus . |
| 4 | But they say it 's only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 5 | And and people say it 's sometimes the only er money tha that a mother wo gets that she can call her own and and use in the way that she wants to . |
| 6 | If it 's a small discharge and say it 's twice the limits , three times the limits , then it would be considered to be needing improvement . |
| 7 | He says she is still the MP she was ; in 1986 she told a hard left conference that ‘ if they come for Militant in the morning , they 'll come for the rest of us in the afternoon ’ . |
| 8 | He says it 's entirely the fault of the green man and he does n't approve of his ideas at all really and only backs them because of a natural wish to support his daughter . |
| 9 | In local area networking , Novell has weathered the storm whipped up by Microsoft by holding onto a 70% share of the market with NetWare , and says it is now the biggest shipper of TCP/IP , sending out code for 40,000 to 50,000 terminals a month . |
| 10 | In local area networking , Novell has weathered the storm against Microsoft by gaining 70% of the market with NetWare , and says it is now the biggest shipper of TCP/IP , sending out 40–50,000 seats a month . |
| 11 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |
| 12 | He says it is absolutely the case that the baby can not be born alive if a Caesarean operation is not carried out . |
| 13 | I hope it 's only the beginning . |
| 14 | But there is a more immediate aim for striker Ian Wright who is fighting a fitness battle to return in the live Sky TV game against the club which sold him to Highbury less than a year ago and show he is still the man England need . |
| 15 | Because they 've always said it 's exactly the same as a day worker and yes you have either the shift off before the night shift off before you go on the course or the one after . |
| 16 | It 's just the pocket really let's turn you round a bit see if it hurts it 's just the way it is I 'm afraid see if we can open it up and spread it out a bit . |
| 17 | Because very often you , a father can be very keen on gardening and getting the children to help him is just the last thing . |
| 18 | Peek Plc 's Talahassee-based Peek Traffic Inc has acquired two traffic control companies and reckons it is now the largest , most diversified and capable US traffic management systems company : it bought Signal Control Co in Salem , Oregon and Signal Maintenance Inc in Anaheim , California , both from IASCO of Foster City , California , for $4.2m , equivalent to net asset value of the two companies , which have combined annual turnover of $24m ; payment will be $2.08m cash on completion and installments of $1m in October , $470,000 and $650,000 in April and July 1994 respectively . |
| 19 | • If gill damage does occur it is often the first site of activity for parasites and bacteria , and remedial action must be swift in order to prevent excess damage . |
| 20 | I do not believe it is merely the result of social conditioning that in the Scriptures , in the Jewish and Christian tradition , mankind and the Church is presented as feminine to God , to whom our response must be one of obedience in contrast to those religions in which the divine is regarded as contained within creation and is to be manipulated or cajoled in order to provide what man needs . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm told it 's also the worst stretch of water in the world — storms and an impossible current for more than nine tenths of the year . |
| 22 | ‘ I suspect it 's probably the first decent meal you 've had for days , Melody . |
| 23 | His lawyer reckons he is probably the youngest person on Death Row in the world . |
| 24 | WELL , IF you want to go on strike , the place to do it is obviously the London borough of Barnet . |
| 25 | Rehabilitated and well furbished it is now the pride of the waterfront . |
| 26 | There 's the erm er the value of the contract per year , there 's a first year you know it 's just the the co cost of the ad thirty percent that 's what the commission was worth and it 's nice to come out with a signature for a erm and this was a charity one so they got it slightly less , erm er and know that you 've just earned yourself that much . |
| 27 | Well that 's what I said you know it 's just the same as it was it 's not |
| 28 | With people who 'd be have nothing to do with the music business or just you know it 's just the social er the social life you know . |
| 29 | I know it 's always the way with plot resumes , but there are actually one or two minor mistakes there are n't there ? |
| 30 | I I hope so I think it was er er we bridged you know I mean maybe you know it 's often the way is n't it you know you think that 's something going on and you think it 's different to what it is when he realized we were all very level headed and that er . |