Example sentences of "is [adv] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |
2 | Where government introduces measures that exclude people from resources long since used by them , the people come to view the project as a zero-sum game ( Thomson in Glantz , ed. 1977 ) , where their loss is exactly others ' gain , and conservation will not in the long run lead to an increase in their incomes . |
3 | This is not women 's business . |
4 | So long as women 's studies options exist , the rest of the curriculum which is not women 's studies , and the structures in which knowledge is constructed , managed and transmitted , can remain unchanged . |
5 | As a welcome twist , Warwara Zelenskaja gave the Soviet Union is best-ever women 's result with third place at Morzine behind Kronberger and Bournissen . |
6 | If companies do decide to charge the employee interest , the rate is usually bankers ' base rate plus a percentage such as 1 per cent ( at Cadbury Schweppes ) or 1½ per cent ( at Pilkingtons ) . |
7 | Thus , not only is the housewife role specifically a feminine role , it is also women 's major occupational role today : the responsibility for running a home is one which is shared by the majority of all adult women . |
8 | ‘ … and , in any case , cooking and looking after children is strictly women 's work , ’ he told her flatly . |
9 | For in common with all extensional definitions , it provides no criteria for the inclusion or exclusion of further phenomena that may come to our attention ; at best one can say that what warrants pragmatic treatment for some new topic is simply linguists ' consensus based on intuitive " family resemblance " to more familiar pragmatic topics . |
10 | What we do not yet know is how women 's changing opportunities for paid work have affected their relative risk of poverty . |
11 | This , supposedly , is when students are most committed to independent study and this is when students ' weaknesses in study skills techniques are most readily exposed . |
12 | That is why children 's games are so important . |
13 | While men and women contribute to both these spheres , the former is primarily men 's domain and the latter primarily that of the women . |