Example sentences of "is [pron] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat is someone Alice can talk to and someone she can tell all of her problems to , ie. complaining about the game of croquet . |
| 2 | One of the central problems confronting any discussion of a text for the play is which version should be used . |
| 3 | What has to be decided is which non-meanings may be significantly regarded as existing " in their own right " , and which can not be so regarded ; what conditions must be fulfilled before a claim that a given topic does so exist can be accepted as meaningful ? |
| 4 | Within the community the question is which site will win the first , and both inside and outside there is the question of ‘ How much of my money will be sacrificed to support the CIT ? ’ — areas of science that have no immediate connection to fusion nevertheless get funded from the same sources , such as the Department of Energy . |
| 5 | All I can say is her dad must be pleased . |
| 6 | But if they fail here , the feeling in the Dutch camp is their team could be disbanded , with Gullit following Gary Lineker to Japan . |
| 7 | It is everything Mark can do to keep his mouth shut . |
| 8 | Despite this qualification , however , Tomlinson is prepared to argue that ‘ smallness of operation in production and distribution is something socialists should generally favour ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 9 | It 's now , it 's still only about five per cent , but I think that that proportion is growing and I think this is something universities would welcome very much . |
| 10 | He combines the view that what it is like to see , for example colour is something BS would come to know on gaining his sight , with the view that what it is like to see , for example , colour is not a further fact in addition to the physical facts about the brain ( p. 146f ) . |
| 11 | He wo n't believe it was a trick , but everyone here knows it was , ’ he said.A spokeswoman for Sizewell B said : ‘ We believe it 's not a wind-up , but if it is his friends will get a good ticking off ! ’ |
| 12 | The notion that a person 's home is his castle will not he eroded without explicit justification . |
| 13 | Why is it women can remember absolutely everything , all the time ? |
| 14 | Is it John can you give us any er a little idea what the Police Complaints Authority ? |
| 15 | ‘ That is what Umbarak would say to Zayed . |
| 16 | ‘ Just think , this is what Heymouth must have been like before electricity was discovered , ’ she said . |
| 17 | as if a steady stream of uncut , top-notch , straightforward soul is what Prince should be striving for ! |
| 18 | I anticipating that is what response will be because I have er basically called him and er |
| 19 | This is what marriage should be , I thought : two people comforting each other in the dark . |
| 20 | This is what life should be like ; this is what I 'm designed for . |
| 21 | The art work is primitive but the silly little joke is what comics used to be about . |
| 22 | The stone referred to here is clearly a symbol of God rather than an embodiment of God , but at the same time it has an element of sacredness , which is what Gandhi may be implying when he maintains that God resides in the stone in a special way . |
| 23 | I mean I can understand why they do and I like the stuff myself , but I do n't share the belief that I get from all sides that impressionism is what art should be like normally . |
| 24 | Our reason for driving on the right in America and on the left in Britain is just our expectation that this is what others will do , coupled with our further belief that it is more important that there be a common rule than that it be one rather than the other . |
| 25 | The sequence above , starting with the lavas , is what geologists would expect to find in a hole piercing 6 km into the ocean crust . |
| 26 | That , dare one suggest , is what Wainwright would have expected of us . |
| 27 | This is what BES can do , and have you heard the latest about fire security ? |
| 28 | One difference between a moral sacrifice and a religious sacrifice , for example , is that the former is what morality may require on a specific occasion . |
| 29 | McGough is what poets should be … a people 's poet ’ . |
| 30 | Out of sight , out of mind , is what Gloria would say . |