Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone listening to or reading about the debate will know that the nub of the Government 's thinking is that they want the Bill to be passed . |
| 2 | The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want . |
| 3 | Therefore , the result is that I dismiss the claim as against the second defendant . |
| 4 | A frequent comment of observers about a prisoner in for a serious offence like murder is that he shows no remorse . |
| 5 | His reply is that we have no idea of material substance because matter is an impossibility and could not exist ; whereas , though we can have no sensory idea of spiritual substance , minds are not an impossibility and could exist . |
| 6 | A limitation of this study is that we had no information on the type of hysterectomy — abdominal or vaginal . |
| 7 | The relevance of Ullman 's study is that he provides a theoretical account of differential ( human ) phenomenology that can be empirically investigated , and which if correct would explain how and why these distinct experiences arise when they do . |
| 8 | The trouble with such five-category classifications in practice is that they describe a two-class society : the working class — producers of goods and services — and middle class — the managers and organisers — are identified , but the ‘ upper class ’ seems to have disappeared altogether . |
| 9 | The only feature in common with all the discharges associated with gonorrhoea is that they represent an alteration from the normal . |
| 10 | Part of the attraction of alternative cancer treatments such as the Gerson therapy is that they allow a patient to feel more in control of the treatment . |
| 11 | The key is that we take the issue seriously . |
| 12 | It has often been said — indeed I have said it myself — that the importance of the central dogma is that it provides a molecular explanation for Weismann 's theory of the independence of germ line and soma . |
| 13 | This is probably one of the most difficult factors for the young diabetic to accept and undoubtedly a great advantage of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion is that it permits the patient greater flexibility in relation to the timing of meals with manual boluses of insulin 30 minutes beforehand . |
| 14 | One of the great pleasures of the north-east is that we attract the second-largest amount of outside investment after Wales . |
| 15 | The disadvantage is that they require a transformer to step down the voltage , which either means fairly expensive fittings ( incorporating the transformer so they can replace existing fittings ) , or expensive wiring from a central transformer to the light fittings — low voltage means high current , so the wires have to be much bigger than normal lighting wiring . |
| 16 | The result was that I chaired a session and I got Pam Mills from the BBC to speak at it and everyone agreed it was one of the best sessions of the conference . |
| 17 | The saving grace of Ockleton 's cloistered and analytical mind was that he had no use for deception . |
| 18 | Tom Tedder 's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist . |
| 19 | Erm the point about the regional census study was that it did a reasonably good job of analyzing the present situation , but not a very good job of the projections . |
| 20 | What this meant in practice was that we overplayed the Health Service , we underplayed almost everything else , and then got into an awful muddle over proportional representation . |
| 21 | I have done mine , erm , I will send one of these round , but the majority of them I feel are so very small that I do n't feel that we need to discuss filling in the because I know the intention was that we sent the document well in advance of what 's being done otherwise we are just going to get bogged down in er , this meeting in terms of all of the decisions . |
| 22 | In Laverty [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 432 ( CA ) the reason why the victim bought a stolen car was because he thought the accused was authorised to sell it , not in reliance on the fact that it did not have its original number-plates . |
| 23 | The beauty of Indirect Rule was that it created an administrative situation in which personal influence was , in theory at any rate , the administrator 's only resource . |
| 24 | Another effect was that it engineered a prevailing mood of despair about the quality of urban and industrial life which in turn bred a determination to rebuild and sweep away the past when the time came — which it did , in the 1940s when town planning was able to assume the mantle of the new provider . |
| 25 | The positive things that have come out of the divorce are that I have a much better relationship with my children and I can read a book in bed and not have a jealous partner by my side trying to prevent me . |
| 26 | What would my attitude be if I had a difficult or long journey to work ? |
| 27 | Hence the geometric view of the path of a body in free fall is that it follows a geodesic in space time . |
| 28 | One thing about leadership through team work is that it puts a much greater emphasis on training for the purposes of delegation and the word that they use to describe that piece is empowerment . |
| 29 | Another feature of Houghton 's work is that he develops a very complex model for collecting logistic information , based upon sampling of the issue records of individual books in various categories — shelf stock , returned books , withdrawn books . |
| 30 | The argument against trickle transfer is that it makes a nonsense of rational rational housing management . |