Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [is] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly all the much bigger fruit bats rely on their large eyes to find their way and in consequence , like owls , they can not fly in caves where there is no light whatsoever . |
| 2 | This road is followed for a short distance to a hairpin bend , where there is a signpost which clearly points the direction of Rutli . |
| 3 | Where there is a Compact they will direct you immediately to the appropriate contact . |
| 4 | The idea is similar to existing roll-over relief on replacement of business assets and , broadly , a material disposal occurs where there is a disposal which would attract retirement relief if the individual were aged over 55 . |
| 5 | However , such a difference can be reconciled , because these type of victim-based surveys can only include crimes where there is a victim who can be interviewed . |
| 6 | Where there 's a will there 's a way to keep everyone happy . |
| 7 | Where there 's a willow there 's a way … |
| 8 | ‘ Where there 's a palace there are pretty girls ! ’ |
| 9 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 10 | Although there is no survey which would give the extent of overcrowding and involuntary sharing , the evidence of the local authority waiting lists and of everyone 's personal experience shows it to be very great . |
| 11 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 12 | When John Leland was touring England , observing and recording , in the years 1534–43 , he was not always certain how a town differed from a village , and so concluded a list of Staffordshire market towns with ‘ Tetenhaul a village and a college about a myle from Wuluerhampton ’ , although there is no confirmation it had ever been anything more . |
| 13 | During the same period a Mr. Bowes & Co. paid £75 in 1762 and £129 in 1766 , although there is no indication who Bowes , in fact , was . |
| 14 | His close involvement threatens to embarrass Mitterrand 's government , although there is no suggestion he was involved in any wrong-doing . |
| 15 | Now if you 're not fit and you 're just getting over a cold now so there 's no way your fit you 're gon na be well an absolute disaster out there . |
| 16 | Once there 's a danger he might decide to eat the picture and choke , stick posters ( or wrapping paper with pictures on ) and family photos around the room . |
| 17 | The New Right in choosing to focus on , and criticise , pressure groups , parties , and elected governments as the very stuff of British politics , chooses to ignore other phenomena that are of political significance , such as the power of the secret state that we will be considering in Chapter S. Moreover , although it is a perspective which is critical of things , criticism is restricted to politics , and to democratic politics at that , and there is no attempt to direct critical attention to the functioning of the economic system and to the power which lurks hidden within it . |
| 18 | Traditional examinations rely on a single mark or a grade to indicate the level of performance relative to other pupils , although it is an indication which says nothing about the nature of the achievement . |
| 19 | This is why registration in Part A is preferable although it is the defendant who carries the burden of proof . |
| 20 | Although it 's a problem which has existed for a long , long time , do you do any work in connection with refugees ? |
| 21 | There 's a lot to be said for the modern falconry centres — anything that helps people to appreciate birds of prey is a good thing as far as I 'm concerned — although it 's a shame they have to be turned into tourist attractions . |
| 22 | Our childhood shapes the kind of people we become , and influences our choice of career , so it 's a subject we often turn to on the show . |
| 23 | ‘ If she 's a model she has to expect to model dresses . ’ |
| 24 | If she 's the lady I remember , she must be about a hundred now . ’ |
| 25 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 26 | If one is a woman one is often surprised by a sudden splitting off of consciousness , say in walking down Whitehall , when from being the natural inheritor of that civilisation , she becomes , on the contrary , outside of it , alien and critical . |
| 27 | Well I , I 'd never thought of taking anything like that until she said , cos I , well you never pay , it 's all new to me , I have n't done it before and she said oh no she said we take these small tins of stuff with us and er make our sandwiches , cos there 's a supermarket I believe not far from there |
| 28 | Cos there 's no way you can get up to town is there ? |
| 29 | And the toilet , cos there 's no carpet she can stick her paws under the toilet . |
| 30 | Until there is an offer which is accepted , there is no contract . |