Example sentences of "[verb] be [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is happening is that generally the Black movement for liberation is defined from a male perspective . |
| 2 | Mr Brighton , erm before I turn to another speaker , your comment about the location of a new settlement , and the likely effect it would have on the West Yorkshire conurbation , er I presume from what you 've said is that effectively the new settlement , if you have one , its location should be such as to serve the needs of York and Greater York , and therefore the further it is away from the West Yorkshire conurbation , or the West side of North Yorkshire , the more likely it is to fulfil that function . |
| 3 | What the child does not understand is that unfortunately the GIANTS have to do this . |
| 4 | The great problem we face is that obviously the authorities in South Africa do n't want the picture to be made , and we 're shooting it in Zimbabwe , where we 've been made very welcome , and erm the difficulties is the creation of South Africa in Zimbabwe , which means you have to go all over the place . |
| 5 | What this entails is that once a charge becomes enforceable , the chargee may thereupon take whatever steps are available to enforce the charge since English law places no significant impediments in the way of the right of enforcement of a charge . |
| 6 | What these experiments can not reveal is whether both the equivalence and distinctiveness treatments are effective in producing changes in the discriminability of the cues — clearly the observed difference could be obtained if just one of these treatments worked . |
| 7 | At the same time , to disbelieve is as much an act of faith , as much an unsubstantiated assumption , as belief . |
| 8 | What this means is that only a relatively small proportion of the population is earning and has the burden of supporting a large number of old and young . |
| 9 | It was still as mellow and welcoming as it ever had been but now the pine panelling was softly golden , gleaming with wax polish . |
| 10 | It was a dark cloudy day ; there had been as yet no spring , and the grass was muddy from constant rain . |
| 11 | My understanding of what what the panel said and what the what the Secretary of State agreed was that neither the panel nor the Secretary of State disagreed with the erm the general sense of the policy but felt that that sense was er embodied and and was able to be applied through the erm provisions of other policies in the plan at that time . |
| 12 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 14 | A point to note is that both the and curves are necessary to give the aggregate demand curve for the economy . |
| 15 | The first feature to note is that only a small minority of the listed inhabitants — five persons out of forty-seven — owned any land at all . |