Example sentences of "[vb pp] be [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason that sales have not boomed is that many customers have been disappointed at what robots do for them . |
| 2 | What is often forgotten is that many people derive their living from them . |
| 3 | The evolutionary view is that the only explanation for certain practices being adopted and others discarded is that these practices enable the group which adopts them to survive and gain mastery over others . |
| 4 | What needs to be considered is whether these groups are better or worse off as a result of ten years of Conservative rule . |
| 5 | The principle to be applied is that any departure from the target represents a loss or gain to be shared on an agreed basis between the two parties . |
| 6 | When it is said that the continuation of the sterling area was an ‘ implicit ’ decision ( in sharp contrast to the debates on overseas expenditure ) the point being made is that this continuation was not the result , it would seem , of any debate within the Attlee government . |
| 7 | The general impression conveyed is that these women would not necessarily be more satisfied with work if they saw more people , but that they would certainly be less dissatisfied . |
| 8 | I mean I 've got is that any good because |
| 9 | The main syntactic universal upon whose existence both Chomsky and Sampson are agreed is that all sentences of natural language are hierarchically structured . |
| 10 | The reason why that 's been preserved is that that part of the wall was never bricked in . |
| 11 | What research has shown is that these tendencies to behave in certain ways are deeply embedded in past experiences . |
| 12 | The question often raised is whether this education system is relevant to Zimbabwe 's needs . |
| 13 | What I hope I have demonstrated is that some sort of positivist approach , in which one regards a theory as a model , is the only way to understand the universe , at least for a theoretical physicist . |
| 14 | Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most disturbing factor I have so far encountered is that any savings from outpatient surgery are to the purchaser 's benefit , not the provider 's , and therefore outpatient surgery will effectively incur a financial penalty . |
| 16 | What is not voiced is that this importance is , in part at least , caused by the institutional processes which give Shakespeare a privileged position on the curriculum at schools . |
| 17 | What is well documented is that any attempt to prepare enquiry and discovery activities based on the pupil 's own interests and starting points will most frequently and helpfully lead to thematic work , breaking out of the narrow specialisms of the traditional timetable . |
| 18 | Th What 's happened is that this spelling , th this reversal of spelling has occurred in English , as some of you obviously do n't seem to know and your modern English versions you speak used it . |
| 19 | What they may not have realised is that that message conveyed itself to the American public ! |
| 20 | What is not so generally realised is that many deaths and serious illnesses also result from the poisonous substances produced by a range of other animals . |
| 21 | We may too readily have mocked the Tory ladies in their funny hats advocating primitive retribution , for what the socialist movement has not registered is that these ladies articulate a collective fear which women share . |
| 22 | ( Another curious suggestion I have heard is that these rings were worn as a souvenir of a marriage ) . |
| 23 | Rather , what many professional economists in the UK , the United States , and other Western countries have disputed is that these economies do in fact have tax rates above t * ; . |
| 24 | But what can still be debated is whether such phenomena are related to the neuropsychological damage often attributed to lead . |