Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money which is invested or lent is called the principal . |
| 2 | That animals should be treated humanely , and with this proviso , that they may be killed , experimented upon , hunted , raced , or petted is both the legal , and a perfectly defensible , position to hold . |
| 3 | The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ . |
| 4 | Second , it is commonly the case that what is highlighted or backgrounded is an attribute , or range of attributes , of the entity referred to . |
| 5 | It will not be as simple as that , but you will have got the idea : one of the most important aspects of the ‘ climate ’ in which a gene is favoured or disfavoured is the other genes that are already numerous in the population ; the other genes , therefore , with which it is likely to have to share bodies . |
| 6 | Much of the anguish that produced is still present . |
| 7 | All that happened is that the electric field drew some charges to the surface of the dielectric which caused then some additional charges to appear on the surface of the conductor . |
| 8 | ‘ All that happened is that I over-reacted , ’ he said at last , after a very long pause . |
| 9 | Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology . |
| 10 | Pentagon figures for Panamanians killed during the invasion and the fighting that followed is less than 300 . |
| 11 | The dispute that followed is the most acrimonious in Britain since 1986 when Rupert Murdoch dismissed his printers and moved his newspapers to Wapping . |
| 12 | And another sort of very close phrase that disappeared is is a phrase awfully much used . |
| 13 | Lawrence is scathing about the Status Quos of this world and equally convinced that Felt 's pre-planned demise was a good idea . |
| 14 | The word that did is probably ‘ luck ’ . |
| 15 | Then we clad and ran off home then we went back mishchifing again we came to a boy and shoved he down in the grass and piched is sweet and then we ran off then I made a apple bom then I chudet it then we went home . |
| 16 | Although the link between signifier and signified is arbitrary , the relationships amongst signifiers and amongst signifieds are relationships of value : |
| 17 | Another concept which has been taken over and reinterpreted is that of ‘ decentralization ’ . |
| 18 | Getting dressed and undressed is something we do almost unthinkingly , but for young children it is an amazingly complicated task — just think of all those buttons and zips ! |
| 19 | A three year old girl who fell twenty feet from a window and survived is back at home . |
| 20 | He is annoyed that she does little cleaning and that the burden of getting Keith and Amy up and breakfasted is always his responsibility . |
| 21 | This phenomenon was not new ; in Haxey 's Case ( 1387 ) and Strode 's Case ( 1512 ) the privilege to say what one liked in Parliament with impunity had been denied but then conceded by the Crown . |
| 22 | The evidence of actual bystanders of what they saw and felt is some evidence of what the hypothetical bystander would have been likely to feel . |
| 23 | Which came and went is there , in some way I think you 've lost a bit of meaning there . |
| 24 | When life-expectancy figures are calculated , everyone who has been born and died is taken into account in arriving at the average life-expectancy figures . |
| 25 | Well , the next thing right , the bus was flagged down right , as he was going past York Street Police Station , and , a policeman come out and says , hey you mu , he stopped the bus man , the police waved the bus down , like , me and Margot were sitting on the bus going to work like , and they went in the bus and said is Margot Mar Margot on the bus ? |
| 26 | and they went to the wrong door and said is this car anything |
| 27 | and said is anybody staying with you ? |
| 28 | And one of the great things Welsh miners have and had is greyhound racing . |
| 29 | The fringes of the crowd loosened and eddied is people slipped away and stragglers arrived . |
| 30 | That the District not merely survived but flourished is unquestionably attributable to the considerable skilled judgment , shrewd diplomacy and unswerving commitment of Frank Jacques to the principles of the WEA and its social purpose in the best tradition of a disciple of Tawney . |