Example sentences of "[vb infin] is [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we do not need is another socialist experiment starting next Thursday . |
| 2 | What we do know is that geological time is awfully long . |
| 3 | Scots Wha Hae , which some may claim is another emotional dirge , has tremendous credentials ( tune going back to the 14th century and words by our national bard ) . |
| 4 | The main conclusion we may draw is that significant numbers of the adult population are actively involved in the care and assistance of older people . |
| 5 | The trouble with pushing the PLA into the arms business to makes ends meet is that other ministries , to their occasional embarrassment , have little control over which weapons are sold where . |
| 6 | ‘ I think that what will happen is that subjective judgments will disappear , but I do not think that most companies will have any problems at all , ’ he said . |
| 7 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
| 8 | But what many people do n't realise is that long-term conservation , particularly in the Third World , is going to depend , whether we like it or not , more on the economic state of the country than on appealing to the better nature of its politicians . |
| 9 | Ah er the other item that we must mention is any extra plastic bags |
| 10 | But if this motion is successful and a working party is established , one of the conclusions that we might reach is that General Secretaries should keep their sticky fingers off shops steward 's commissions . |
| 11 | An important presumption to which we should all adhere is that existing frontiers , however inconvenient and however arbitrarily they may have been drawn , are the lines from which we start . |
| 12 | On the other hand , what you 'll get is this continual lying going on about kidding everybody that everything 's better than it is and , of course , the eternal gratitude . |
| 13 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 14 | ( One , untestable , assumption which most reductionists would make is that conscious experiences can not precede the neural events underlying them . ) |
| 15 | I do take on , I do take on one point that the Conservatives have begun to raise to make in their in their motion which what we do n't want is another heavy tier of bur bureaucracy . |
| 16 | The only thing that perhaps they do n't handle is that intermediate area , which the AC30 is very good at — where you can strike a chord and it 's distorted , but you can still hear what the chord is . ’ |
| 17 | All one can say is that discreet inquiries in the neighbourhood produced nothing , save to show that he certainly appears not to be in the flat now . " |
| 18 | What I will say is that good art education is vital to the future and it must be based upon an analytical study of anatomy and perspective . ’ |
| 19 | Okay , so , I think what we can say is that agricultural trade in absolute terms has probably risen |
| 20 | What we can say is that Caribbean usages have spread outwards beyond the Caribbean community itself , so that there are a number of expressions of Caribbean origin now in use in London both within and outside the black community . |
| 21 | All you can say is that natural selection selects for the reproductive success of individuals in their genes and some individuals have more reproductive success than others . |
| 22 | What I would say is this three things . |
| 23 | Actually , what you 'll find is that working mothers are extremely efficient because they have to be . ’ |