Example sentences of "[is] [det] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , obviously that s all I can say — Kuemann ( ? ) has a good strike too etc , but look at that company … all allegedly world class players … youd expect them to have a half decent free kick : - ) All those players are acclaimed too . |
| 2 | There is little one can do about the former . |
| 3 | Coun Cussons has asked the police to step in to remedy the situation , but Cheshire 's Chief Constable , David Graham , says there is little they can do to persuade landlords to let younger drinkers back in . |
| 4 | Several local PPLs , who have to go to him , have complained about this exorbitantly high fee , but it seems that there is little we can do about it . |
| 5 | There is little we can do . |
| 6 | If parents do not accept your role there is little you can do . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , there is little I can do about it . |
| 8 | Until you have indicated that , there is little I can do . ’ |
| 9 | However , I think Steven Micklewright has summed up our concerns very ably , and there is little I can add at present . |
| 10 | There is little I can say . |
| 11 | Lewis said : ‘ I was n't at Yarmouth and there is little I can say . |
| 12 | But notice that in order to respond effectively the defender must now twist all the way back , because sideways-on there is little he can do to score . |
| 13 | Although Russia , along with the Ukraine and Belorussia , opposes this plan , there is little it can do to stop it . |
| 14 | However , for a horse shut in a small yard , or especially a stable , boredom is very distressing as there is little it can do to break the monotony , and it will become anxious . |
| 15 | The police are aware of the problem but admit there 's little they can do . |
| 16 | But crime prevention experts say there 's little they can do to make hospitals secure . |
| 17 | They say resources are stretched to breaking point — administrators say there 's little they can do without more money to pay for new buildings . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's little they can do , ’ he says . |
| 19 | The disappointment for Newcastle , and for the North-East , is that what might prove to be one of the most crucial games in the club 's history has been decided not by skill , flair and courage — but by dubious refereeing decisions . |
| 20 | ‘ The only key which would interest Edward methinks is that which would open the gate to freedom ! ’ |
| 21 | For quantity comparisons , the hypothetical value is that which would have held if current prices had existed in the base year . |
| 22 | With the needle steady , the heading now being flown is that which will take the aircraft direct to the station . |
| 23 | that we w that we are concerned that what will happen is that everybody will start putting silly low |
| 24 | I mean , I think one , the first thing to be said is that one can assure members covering all the other C A B's was that they actually got their bids in full . |
| 25 | but they were enormous , they were , they were very substantial , but , erm , well I , I think that the point here is that one can have a minimum requirement , but depending upon the facts and the circumstances and the nature of the market , so on and so forth , well they have , the commission said , you can have no restrictions at all cos we 're not going to give you exemption , so you 'd better make sure that they are the absolutely bear minimum that are necessary to ensure that every person capable of competing can get into the market . |
| 26 | But the implication of a declining rate of vacancies , is that something will stop people moving house . |
| 27 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
| 28 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 29 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 30 | The important thing to recognize , really , is that anyone can program a computer , and I do mean program it . |