Example sentences of "is [subord] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has anyone got the Leeds ticket office or fax number , We are planning to try and make the wednesday match on feb the 12th , that is if any tickets are still available . |
| 2 | Has anyone got the Leeds ticket office or fax number , We are planning to try and make the wednesday match on feb the 12th , that is if any tickets are still available . |
| 3 | This is because such inferences often arise wherever features of the context do not actually block them , with the result that they can be easily confused with the permanent aspects of the semantics of the expressions involved . |
| 4 | This is because such schemes are taking a long time to get off the ground and because employers generally recruit from non-local networks ( see also Ladbury and Mira-Smith in this volume ) . |
| 5 | It is because such interfaces are believed to be dangerous that men act as they do in ritual situations . |
| 6 | It is because such equalities are therefore not worth investigation ( they are all false ! ) that a totally different interpretation is usually attached to the statement |
| 7 | This is because such households would find themselves holding more money on average to finance the same total value of transactions . |
| 8 | This is because many children want to talk about the subject but can not find an adult in whom to confide or who is willing to talk about it . |
| 9 | This is because many compounds used in treating diseases have an adverse effect on the gills from which they never recover . |
| 10 | This is because all behaviours , spoken and unspoken , are overt and manifest . |
| 11 | This is because both agencies are fighting for a larger share of the available budget and seek to create a good impression by producing the most frightening scenario . |
| 12 | This is because both forms of enterprise are identical to the individuals who own them ; their creditworthiness is that of those individuals . |
| 13 | This is because both frontbenches accept that it is the function of the House to permit the two sides to state their cases , and each party in power has respected the right of the Opposition to determine the subjects of debate for about one-third of the total time of the House . |
| 14 | This does not seem to be because the UK has more crime , or more serious crime , than comparable countries ; rather it is because more offenders are sent to custody , and for longer periods , in the UK than elsewhere . |
| 15 | It is because those Governments have been arguing for coal utilisation while our Government have sat on their hands wanting to take a swipe at miners and their communities . |
| 16 | This is because some disinfectants serve to reinforce rather than overcome such scents which are not discernible by our noses . |
| 17 | This is because some tablets , especially those prescribed for deworming purposes , often have a nasty taste and may cause your dog to salivate if they are swallowed in this form . |
| 18 | The reason for this is because some odorants are toxic but their toxic effects are not necessarily related to the perception of the odour per se . |
| 19 | This is because some samples from these predator species have near equivalence in numbers , and all the individual pellet samples have either this near equivalence or a deficit of both incisors and molars . |
| 20 | It is because these principles have been lost that much modern architecture is criticized : there is no link with or respect for Nature . |
| 21 | It is because these qualities are so abundantly visible in photography today that the medium has some claim on our attention : photography still has much to tell us about the way the world looks and the experience of living in it . |
| 22 | Where the status of older people is low , it is because these attitudes determine that it will be low , not because it is a natural consequence of the ageing process . |
| 23 | This is because these children easily develop kidney and bladder problems . |
| 24 | This is because these felines have been carefully selected for their special kinds of coats . |
| 25 | ‘ That is because these days you are at the top of the ladder and it is other men who are sent to places like this . ’ |
| 26 | And the reason for a , a lot of fashion and a lot of change in the fashions , one of the reasons is because these men had , needed some way of showing off their wealth . |
| 27 | But what can still be debated is whether such phenomena are related to the neuropsychological damage often attributed to lead . |
| 28 | The use by the Prime Minister of powers under the royal prerogative to ban trade unions at the Government Communication Headquarters at Cheltenham in 1983 was contested both for its lawfulness — that is whether such powers could be used and if so whether they were used correctly — and also for its legitimacy that is whether , even if the constitutional power existed , this was a proper and fair use of the power . |
| 29 | What needs to be considered is whether these groups are better or worse off as a result of ten years of Conservative rule . |
| 30 | The main focus of this chapter is whether these policies are sufficient , or whether it is necessary for the state to have direct control of certain industries through public ownership . |