Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] is [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean that is not the cumulative situation . |
| 2 | At the moment I mean that is quite a boring sort of report |
| 3 | I mean this is n't a new thing , this is one of the basic erm Tory virtues that I was erm brought up with . |
| 4 | Why I 'm showing , I mean this is just the same as the table you had before but this time what I 'm showing you is the product of A ti A times B , the product of the two . |
| 5 | I mean this is quite a good idea actually . |
| 6 | Did they ever sort of erm you know say this is just a temporary step for us ? |
| 7 | Health and safety officals say this is n't the first incident of its kind … and they 're renewing their efforts to convince all nursing home boards to check their plumbing is n't potentially lethal |
| 8 | Residents say this is n't the first time they 've had problems with drivers . |
| 9 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |
| 10 | One reason is that many suspect this is just the first of several unwelcome shifts in the government 's funding pattern , despite official promises to the contrary . |
| 11 | We 've been very careful not to be seen to be interfering or for anybody to think that we were going to tell groups how they would run their groups , because the groups are fairly autonomous and they pre-existed parish councils er , but a you know this is almost a direct invitation and we could actually respond to this in terms of an invitation and ask other groups if they would be interested in our respon in our going to , to visit them , rather than a surgery where maybe we 'd sit here and nobody would turn up . |
| 12 | Partly in the questioner 's mind , erm could be answered by reference to language problems , I mean , a technical or professional qualifications may be equivalent , and may be awfully good , but if one expert and qualified person ca n't talk the language of the country he wants to work in , that 's going to be a barrier on its own , and I reckon that is often the bigger barrier between the easy movement of qualified people from one of our countries to another , than the lack of qualifications , or disagreement about qualifications themselves . |
| 13 | As strategies go this is not a bad one at all , for at least it leaves the people involved feeling that they have some power , purpose and ( usually ) some solidarity with others . |
| 14 | As to suggestions that if the deal did not happen , it could throw doubts on the future of the bank , he said : ‘ I think that is not an unfair conclusion . ’ |
| 15 | I think that is both a substantial amount of peer pressure and also the clearest possible indication that there is an expectation right around the world that people will put the communal benefit of a GATT agreement , before purely domestic interests . |
| 16 | May I say Sandra I think this is probably an Inland Revenue ruling . |
| 17 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 18 | And I think this is perhaps a slight confusion because very often , would you agree that we tend to use the quality and standard interchangeably ? |
| 19 | But you see this is not the first chiller is it . |