Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun sg] [pers pn] is [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For that reason it is our intention to present , for all of our authors , explicit evidence that they did indeed meet the formal diagnostic criteria for psychotic illness , as used by psychiatrists . |
| 2 | It is a form of brainwashing , or what that pioneer in the study of learning processes , Gregory Bateson , called corrective learning , that information-seeking activity whereby a person attempts to ‘ achieve a congruence between ‘ something in his head ’ and the external world … by altering what is in his head ’ — only in this case it is what is in Iago 's head , ‘ If thou dost love me ’ , Othello says to Iago , ‘ Show me thy thought ’ ; earlier he had said that Iago hesitated . |
| 3 | Principally in this chapter it is his watercolours that are discussed . |
| 4 | In this book it is our aim to give such an account of the meaning of the various surface constructions where adjectives are found in English , doing so by relating these to such intensional notions as entity , identification , qualification and assignment ( which can themselves be plausibly related to more general aspects of mental activity ) ; and indeed we believe this is the task for syntax in general . |
| 5 | In this respect he is something like a general on a battlefield — except that the battle never comes to an end . |
| 6 | But since Gide has been criticized in this respect it is something which needs to be addressed . |