Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But er , this is just by way of an anticipation , the the general conclusion comes for instance , in this rather generalized book , and relatively short book , is that we ought to base variety and social order on science , and its insights , and certainly not on , on religion , and , and there he , there he leaves the question .
2 One of the problems that will be encountered is that we may find words which are obviously complex but which , when we divide them into stem + affix , turn out to have a stem that it is difficult to imagine is an English word .
3 The benefit of this assumption ( Willig , 1976 ) is that we may use consumer surplus , the area under the demand curve , as a measure of social benefit . "
4 Our early thinking , at the moment , is that we should seek ways , but without major upheaval , to bring HNCs and HNDs under the ‘ general SVQ umbrella ’ because this would give those advanced awards a rightful place in the framework of Scottish Vocational Qualifications and at the same time simplify and clarify progression routes from introductory through to advanced qualifications and beyond .
5 She might have agreed with my friend Roger Hinks — who , after his unmerited disgrace over the too energetic cleaning of the Elgin Marbles , left the British Museum to work for years for the British Council — that the compensation for having acquaintances is that we can make game of them with our friends .
6 One disadvantage of warning colours is that they may attract killers who might have missed the prey animals altogether if they had not been so gaudy .
7 The third is that they may say things that seem absolutely correct at the time , but which are made ludicrous by the unfolding of events .
8 One thing that worries parents about their children becoming vegetarian is that they might lack protein .
9 The irony of Labour 's tax proposals is that they would give Britain an income tax profile like that in the United States , where the burden falls hardest on middle income families with children .
10 A brigade spokesman said : ‘ Our major message to the public is that they should build bonfires safely and well away from property or parked cars .
11 The aim for those Compacts established by the Training Agency , and for any others that are established independently , is that they should become self financing .
12 One of the conditions of people learning anything is that they can locate sounds .
13 A widespread myth among personal , personnel managers is that they can change terms and conditions by simply giving notice of intent .
14 However , over the past five years , a new industry has developed that makes and markets machines whose purpose and promise is that they can outthink humans in an arena traditionally thought to demand reasoning of the highest sort .
15 The rationale of virtual-memory systems is that they can allocate memory on the basis of the actually observed demands for storage rather than on the potential , or worst case estimates , for the execution of a program .
16 The difficulty with such a conclusion is that one can claim authenticity for anything that goes on in the classroom , including mechanistic pattern practice and the recital of verb paradigms , on the grounds that it may be conducive to learning ( type 3 ) and a feature of the conventional classroom situation ( type 4 ) .
17 The most pressing requirement is for a COSE developers kit — existing customers of OSF/Motif , IXI Ltd X.desktop or Hewlett-Packard 's Visual User Environment desktops wo n't get upgraded until something is out — and the danger , according to the source , is that someone will break ranks and ship a developers kit without the blessing of the others .
18 The most pressing requirement is for a COSE developers kit — existing customers of OSF/Motif , IXI Ltd X.desktop or HP 's Visual User Environment desktops wo n't get upgraded until something is out — and the danger , according to the source , is that someone will break ranks and ship a developers kit without the blessing of the others .
19 Erm the way that we see it is that I would appraise Kevin , Bill and Cath , initially and that , oh this is just York 's is n't it ?
20 So where is that I 'll go Doctor for my hair ?
21 The simple answer is that you must select information from your notes to suit the question .
22 There are a couple of things I would like to say one is that you will find people have asked regards the paper which David mentioned in Northern Ireland that has been distributed it was pinned to another sheet of paper erm , headed The Last Attempt and there are more copies available it 's simply to know where to find that .
23 One of the qualifications for being a Tory is that you can make comments like ‘ adverse comment ’ about a cut of this sort erm and remember that you have heard representations of the strongest sort from very well documented people who are going to be affected by these cuts .
24 But the main disadvantage of the Edinburgh Room is that you can borrow slides only and not everything can be photocopied .
25 The advantage of having a text in computerised form is that you can find things in it very easily using computerised search techniques , and you can do more complicated searches than you ever could with a printed concordance .
26 The advantage of paper money , however , is that you can get interest on it .
27 Another plus of the pension mortgage is that you can claim tax relief on your pension contributions .
28 The whole idea of WYSIWYG is that you can see changes happening as you do things .
29 And what he says is that you can see people on a continuum .
30 There 's it 's mirror image and what you will find is that you can superimpose side by side and two , any two of those atoms there those groups but then , straight away the other two are out of position the other two have reversed .
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