Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main proof Van Laue offers for this argument is the polarisation of society between global conflict and a backward society that made a liberal constitution impossible . |
| 2 | It offers about one hour 's straight playing time per side . |
| 3 | The market for stable power supplies for sensitive equipment is worth £1.2bn in Europe and is growing at 10 per cent per year . |
| 4 | And here I might remark that the chief point that strikes the observer as he goes through this department is the predominance of the bogie — in fact , there is very little else . |
| 5 | Well it 's a verb phrase so erm they just , all that means is if you take a subject expression and well , what goes , what goes after such expression is a verb phrase , that my opinion not just you know . |
| 6 | Whether this matters for International Relations is disputed . |
| 7 | What matters for this purpose is that if it escapes it is likely to do mischief and this is the meaning to be given to ‘ dangerous thing ’ in this context . |
| 8 | It is a travesty of Darwinism to suggest that all that matters in social life is conflict . |
| 9 | All of which is a roundabout way of saying that what matters in this world is asking the right questions , rather than knowing the right answers . |
| 10 | That position now is the same as it stands before this legislation is passed . |
| 11 | Cancer case starts in doomed man 's home |
| 12 | His view is that what the Soviet Union has in small quantities is as good as the technology of the West , but that the country lacks the ability to turn out production volumes . |
| 13 | The flow of investment between such a country and an industrialised nation is one-way , not reciprocal , and the stake which the less developed country has in overseas interests is minimal ( or possibly non-existent ) . |
| 14 | What the programmer wants in many cases is for the result of the operation to replace one of the operands . |
| 15 | What the Samaritan document adds to II Maccabees is that the Samaritans petitioned the king for the name of their temple . |
| 16 | What DNA has over normal crystals is a means by which its information can be read . |
| 17 | One advantage LanOptics has over other companies is that although Israel is not in the European Community , there are no import duties payable for importing the products into Community countries . |
| 18 | Her mother who lives at nearby Bowleymead is estranged from her husband Richard Yates . |
| 19 | What matters at this level is that the searcher clearly understands that if Christianity is true , his need , whatever it is , is met . |
| 20 | What matters at this point is to see the importance for faith and doubt which this claim implies . |
| 21 | That poverty persists despite these efforts is less a reason to give up than a reason to learn from what works and what does not . |
| 22 | However , rights theory allows for one person 's prima facie right to be overridden in the interests of other individuals ' more important ‘ competing rights ’ ( see Dworkin , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable . |
| 24 | If a clock travels from P 1 to P 2 then the time interval it measures between these events is called the proper time Δτ , with . |
| 25 | Some philosophers deny the possibility of any fundamental conflict between justice and fairness because they believe that one of these virtues in the end derives from the other : Some say that justice has no meaning apart from fairness , that in politics , as in roulette , whatever happens through fair procedures is just . |
| 26 | Thus most of what passes for literary scholarship is excluded from the sphere of criticism : studies of authors ' lives , of their immediate environment , of their ideas about writing and of the genesis of their works . |
| 27 | Steady progress over the last four decades has brought us to a point where much of what happens in primary education is a source of pride . |
| 28 | Yet finding out what happens in higher education is of utmost importance in understanding the patterns of gender inequality that exist . |
| 29 | But what happens in these clouds is that certain parts of them , certain areas of the cloud start to collapse , and as they collapse the temperature rises and the collapse increases , and as the temperature rises through a thousand to a million degrees we find that these are the regions where stars form , and it is really the major discovery , as far as astronomy is concerned , of the radio research that we now know a lot more about the early stages of star formation . |
| 30 | ‘ Anything that happens in this town is of interest to me , as it is to you , being in the business of reporting what goes on yourself . ’ |