Example sentences of "is [verb] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | i it 's , it 's obviously a thing which , if one can possibly avoid it 's a good idea to and erm I must say it helped but it you do n't know what is helping because you know we do n't know what her symptoms are going to be . |
| 2 | The problem is compounded when we allow our leading businesses — Rowntree and perhaps Cadbury 's and others — to be bought up by foreign predators so that our muscle is destroyed . |
| 3 | Eliot wrote of the huge scale of the Russian Revolution and of the huge scale of its violence , pointing out that only one result could justify such huge and terrible expense : ‘ Such a cataclysm is justified if it produces something really new : Un [ sic ] oasis d'horreur dans un désert d'ennui ’ . |
| 4 | I think the best we can do is wait until we find them . ’ |
| 5 | And that seems to be to demonstrate difference between what is happening whether we like it or not at central government level and input of somebody who is perpetual of opposing propositions and that is the to two particular items within this alternative budget . |
| 6 | This is all realistic and is happening as I think it would if small boys were alone on an island . |
| 7 | Of course , the terrible irony of this is shown later , when Eddie betrays his cousins and the truth of his own words is applied as he ruins his life and finally loses it as a result of being disloyal . |
| 8 | The creature is seen chasing two teenage boys — but all is saved when one tosses him a can of Pepsi . |
| 9 | The proceedings can be stopped at any point before the divorce is granted if you change your mind , but you must tell the Court of Session without delay . |
| 10 | ‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin . |
| 11 | , head of Thorntons ' commercial department , agreed : ‘ It 's not a matter of giving a ball-park figure and then saying nothing until the work is done before you reveal there were extra costs involved . |
| 12 | This is done as he lifts his rear leg to kick the attacker . |
| 13 | The second step is controlling the actual physical effects on you of all the adrenaline which is produced when you sense you are in a threatening situation . |
| 14 | The author 's study is preserved as he left it , along with his collections of books , armour and historical records . |
| 15 | The simplicity , though , is deceiving because it tells you little about the developmental performance leading to the strongly and reliably determined patterns of differentiation and spatial organisation of the animal . |
| 16 | It is true to say that Tamburlaine sets himself very few limits , and this is shown when he makes his aspirations clear by telling his friends that he wants ‘ to become immortal like the Gods ’ . |
| 17 | I understand what Morrissey is saying because he lives his life like me . ’ |
| 18 | What a voter is saying when he gives his first-preference vote to a particular candidate of a particular party is , " I want this candidate , of this party , to be elected " . |
| 19 | This is the question the St John Ambulance brigade is asking as it launches its Breath of Life campaign . |
| 20 | I have a great respect for the floating voter and I am confident he will see which side his bread is buttered when he casts his vote this time . |
| 21 | On recounting the tale to a journalist , the victim is asked if he thinks there will ever be an end to this cycle of violence , to which he answers , ‘ No , as long as they keep shitting in our shoes , we 'll keep pissing in their Bovril . ’ |
| 22 | I think the point that Mr is making if I read him correctly is that is you had an inner relief road , in fact it would siphon off traffic from the A sixty one going south from say the Killinghall bypass or relief road . |
| 23 | Thrombolytic therapy is started provided there arc none of the exclusion criteria that I mentioned , along with atropine . |
| 24 | The justification is that it is undesirable for domestic firms to compete against each other in overseas markets : national welfare is enhanced if they maximize their joint rents . |
| 25 | Even with a simple system like this we can not draw direct conclusions about the functions of a component from knowing what is lost when we destroy it . |
| 26 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 27 | He leaves them in the open pasture says Jesus , he leaves them in the wilderness and goes after the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 28 | The importance of this expenditure is realized when we contrast it with the £701,469 these three same denominations spent on ministerial training and the £692,054 spent on home missions . |
| 29 | His newest toy , a Toyota Land Cruiser with Gumbo Monster Mudder tyres so big that oxygen is required when you reach your seat , has CB , a radio telephone , an anenometer and a Loran radar set fixed in to transmitters on Greenland , Iceland and Norway . |
| 30 | ‘ Your father will think he is dreaming when he sees you ! ’ |