Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 2 | Manipulation of ‘ needs ’ by both creating them and satisfying them is the process by which social control is effected . |
| 3 | It is this that bears on my father 's second question-how to contain the uncontainable : producing these extremes and then controlling and containing them are the problems . |
| 4 | I do not think it would be reasonable to pretend that the cost of paying people , recruiting them and retaining them is the same in the south-east as in other parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | Simone Thiroux , the Canadian student so enamoured of Modigliani , was still shadowing him ; by now she was pregnant and claiming he was the father . |
| 6 | Erm , there 's a perfect example in Appendix Three , in and Planning It 's the second page of of Appendix Three , and to read through it , and I wo n't read it , because obviously everybody has done . |
| 7 | By the thirteenth century the right of founding a castle , repopulating an existing site and fortifying it was the exclusive privilege of the pope in Latium . |
| 8 | Recognising you 've got a problem is fine , but changing it is the hardest part and a lot of people do n't do it . |