Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is by no means true that an ad which everyone notices is necessarily good — it may be noticed for reasons which are totally irrelevant to the strategy . |
| 2 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 3 | And in fact , if the argument above is sound , to conceive of a knee other than yours hurting in the way in which yours hurts is to conceive of it as hurting you . |
| 4 | I remember when I started my training I work with this girl and I said where 'd you come from and she said I come from the most boring town in Britain , I says where Grantham ? , she says yeah , I says is it boring , she says yeah huh , it is |
| 5 | No , but she said like , she said it could come today cos she says they deliver I says is there no way I said you can give me a number I said that I could get in contact , she said no , she said were 're not allowed to do that |
| 6 | The land someone cultivates is necessarily his : this is simply a special case of the fact that each man unquestionably has a right to his own life and labour , and so has the right to the products of that labour . |
| 7 | ‘ A man who puts 'is stock first is acting for what 'e thinks is t'best , ’ he snapped . |
| 8 | He is dishonest in the way he makes a light-hearted , open contract with Antonio , which Antonio himself thinks is a joke . |
| 9 | Where trade-offs are at issue , rather than innovation , modernisation or know-how , the only question which matters is ‘ opportunity cost ’ : resources which would otherwise be expended on equivalent Soviet equipment and , particularly , the question of investment versus overall return . |
| 10 | According to this conception , disorder is rule-governed : much of the ‘ aggro ’ which occurs is largely symbolic , comprising a relatively harmless repertoire of threats , stares , denigratory chants and gestures ( cf. |
| 11 | The net amount of work which occurs is often estimated by observing the frequency of an externally applied effective stress ( such as a weather- or hydrologically-related stress ) which is more easily measured or is accessible from records . |
| 12 | The two situations are not logically comparable , since in the physical world , each nuclide which disintegrates is permanently lost from the sample , whereas in the case of documents , the original collection does not decrease when an element is sampled by citation . |
| 13 | The sense of division which exists is a comparatively new phenomenon , at least to judge from the life histories and recollections of people living in the area . |
| 14 | The evidence which exists is not comprehensive , nor does it adequately differentiate between different systems in terms of educational progress . |
| 15 | The only text of the whole legend which exists is that written by the Greek author Plutarch in the first century AD , De Iside et Osiride . |
| 16 | In practice the Royal Colleges appear to have accepted that the wide range of local variation which exists is no longer tenable and national clinical protocols for the management of particular conditions have developed rapidly . |
| 17 | ‘ Yet the picture of politics which survives is completely different , ’ said Dr Chase . |
| 18 | Right , one thing that you need when somebody speaks is inverted commas okay or speech marks , name , if you read it out aloud name ask the doctor , the inverted commas come here because name is somebody speaking and it tells you that somebody is speaking here , it says asks okay say asked . |
| 19 | The picture which emerges is one where there was a good deal of casual crudity and the occasional fight between individuals or small groups but little orchestrated rowdyism or violence . |
| 20 | The picture which emerges is not of a remedy in rem in the sense of an initial action granted against third parties in possession of the property under trust ; instead the missio was a means of execution against third parties which was available following a normal action in personam . |
| 21 | The message which emerges is clearly one of forward planning to avoid any undesirable over-involvement in management decisions . |
| 22 | The personality which emerges is amazingly ordinary and down-to-earth . |
| 23 | When these indicators are examined in more detail in relation to investment , productivity and competitiveness , the picture which emerges is not predominantly one of inadequate supplies of labour in manufacturing industry but one of the low productive efficiency of the existing labour force as it is employed in combination with other factors of production . |
| 24 | The general picture which emerges is one in which , whilst a considerable amount of assistance does pass between relatives , the procedures for asking for , offering and accepting it are quite tricky to handle in practice . |
| 25 | The picture which emerges is a mixed one indeed : on the one hand , the creation of a committee structure which defies all the rules of good management and administration , and on the other , a number of actual or potential outcomes of considerable value . |
| 26 | Select a set of starting vectors Yo , arbitrary except that they must be linearly independent ; then evaluate the ( n × p ) matrix unc and use Wo to form the two square matrices of order p unc Now solve the eigenproblem ( any suitable method from this chapter may be used ) unc for its modal matrix Mo ; the spectral matrix Ao which emerges is ( see below ) a first approximation to Ay . |
| 27 | One thing which emerges is that it is not all decline . |
| 28 | The picture which emerges is a grim one for disabled people . |
| 29 | Meantime , the important principle which emerges is that the network measure is concerned with an underlying variable of integration to a social group ; hence , selection of indicators is motivated by the need to characterize in a principled way differences between individuals with respect to degree of integration . |
| 30 | The main fact which emerges is that the Temple is still being subsidized by the king of the land , as it was under Persian rule , according to a decree of Darius of 515 B.C. ( Ezra 6.9 ) . |