Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the rules inspector would come in next and the rules inspector would say to the guy how many rules policies are and you say oh G A inspector and to every one he actually gained in fact it was n't there was no commitment there at all get rid of people . |
| 2 | Another argument used to advocate key settlement policies is that they favour employment growth . |
| 3 | However , one of the problems with fan clubs is that they tend to operate for very young people . |
| 4 | One often forgotten drawback of aluminium structures is that you need to buy special clips and brackets if you want to add on accessories such as shelves and insulation . |
| 5 | ‘ My students did n't know what phrasal verbs were until they discovered Streamline Directions Workbook ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The lesson of milk quotas is that you 've got to get in at the start . |
| 7 | One theory of the origin of ice ages is that they occur when large masses ( for example , comets ) crash down onto the Earth , throwing up vast amounts of detritus into the stratosphere which block off the heat from the Sun . |
| 8 | The main advantage of elicitation procedures is that they give a relatively high degree of control over areas of linguistic ability which are being assessed . |
| 9 | One surprising aspect of the recall results was that they did not seem to be related to previous knowledge of the junctions , it had seemed possible that even simple junctions would be memorable if they had not been previously encountered . |
| 10 | Important characteristics of expert systems are that they provide advice in problem-solving based on the knowledge of experts , facilitate learning through experience and allow the use of natural language processing . |
| 11 | One of the major advantages of letters over telephone conversations is that they provide a permanent record . |
| 12 | Most people are aware , for instance , that a major link between those who suffer heart attacks is that they tend to have a high level of cholesterol in the blood . |
| 13 | One feature of the use of both dependency ratios and population projections is that they concentrate upon expected changes in structures . |
| 14 | The problem with device drivers is that they have to be installed in your CONFIG.SYS file , and it is usually helpful to have an install routine guide you through the process — lord knows , just about every other program you come across these days insists on writing to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT . |
| 15 | The problem with old-fashioned community studies was that they lacked any systematic procedure for linking ethnographic observation with accounts of society as a whole . |
| 16 | Other Christians would say that , while the stories may be based on some happening in the life of Jesus , the importance of the Nature miracles is that they teach people crucial matters of faith in Jesus . |
| 17 | What is equally clear among business men is that they have no enthusiasm whatever for a Labour Government . |
| 18 | The trouble with the new community councils is that they have largely fallen into the hands of the incoming middle-class whose views are likely to be coincident with the dominant ideology . |
| 19 | Mean time between failures on 3.5 ’ disk drives made by IBM Corp of 750,000 hours will have to get a lot nearer the 2m or more hours of the company 's manhole cover disks before it can entrust mainframe data to arrays of the little ones , Electronic News reports : that 's funny , we thought the whole idea of disk arrays was that one built sufficient redundancy into the array of cheap disks that no-one need worry about failures ever again . |
| 20 | The problem with the International Data Corp figures is that they try to treat Unix workstations as a separate market rather than bundling Unix workstations and Unix servers together , which is presumably the reason for the implied figure for IBM Corp sales of only $558m , where IBM has implied total 1992 RS/6000 business of $2,000m . |
| 21 | Yet another way in which people may judge the costliness of different types of credit is how reasonable they think any credit terms are that they have recently been using . |
| 22 | No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity . |
| 23 | The traditional view of zebra stripes is that they act as camouflage , but even in woodland cover this is not convincing and , in any case , zebra herds spend most of their time on open grassland where the stripes can not hide them . |
| 24 | A weakness of many low-cost colour inkjets is that they use the colour cartridge to produce black by applying 100 per cent cyan , magenta and yellow . |
| 25 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |
| 26 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating , and the proof of people skills is that they make it as likely as possible that we achieve our objectives with people . |
| 27 | I think steel balls are But you see you can do a display on your table ca n't you |
| 28 | I do n't know why he makes you do that I mean it 's if that was something the I mean all Tony used to ever say when we were at traffic lights were if you want to you can put the handbrake on at this set of traffic lights if they were downhill |
| 29 | The main advantage of compression joints is that they make complicated pipe runs much easier since the joints can all be assembled , tightened , slackened off again and the pipe rotated in the joint to get the position right before the nuts are all re-tightened . |
| 30 | Keegan , who ten days ago was boss of an apparently invincible Geordie side , said : ‘ I know what people are thinking , but the only difference between our defeat at Leicester on Saturday and our early season results was that we gave away a silly goal . ’ |