Example sentences of "[Wh det] it is [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This alone would permit the evaluation of UK problems and policies in their international setting and clarify the implications of policy choices at the EEC level for the UK and the rest of the EEC as well as locating options for Europe as a whole in the global context by which it is powerfully influenced and constrained . |
| 2 | I must tell you Minnie that things have not been good between my old beloved mistress and me which it is not fitting that I should now go into but this blow has brought us closer together in our love and concern for Miss Henrietta . |
| 3 | But unfortunately we can then easily imagine a context in which that sentence might be appropriately used , in which it is not assumed that John cheated : for example , you thought he had cheated , asked me whether he now repents , but I tell you he never did , and persuade you accordingly , and then I say so John does n't regret cheating ( Gazdar , 1979a : 105 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ A superordinate grouping in which it is explicitly stated that all members share a single attribute was , however , much more likely when linguistic predicates were formed as complete sentences with copula [ ‘ they are round ’ ] than as incomplete sentences without . |
| 5 | Overall , a healthy plurality of different initiatives is likely to arise if a strong voluntary sector grasps the opportunity with which it is currently presented and if it is actively supported by the statutory authorities . |
| 6 | Metal which has been purchased and committed to future sales to customers or hedged in metal markets is valued at the price at which it is contractually committed or hedged , adjusted for unexpired contango . |
| 7 | Postulating the presence of a generalized person in the infinitive whose position in time as support of the infinitive 's event is either coincident or subsequent to another position of this same person , at which it is often represented as support of some other event , thus leads to a more profound comprehension of the motives underlying the use of to . |