Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even if the political tangle in South Africa is unravelled quickly there are many leading rugby people in New Zealand , including the new All Black coach , Laurie Mains , who suggest that now is not a good time for the resumption of New Zealand-South African contests — New Zealand have to recover a lot of the ground lost at the World Cup before they would feel comfortable of having a winning chance against South Africa . |
| 2 | ‘ Simple justice and commercial logic suggest that now is the time to remove the handcuffs from the ferry companies . ’ |
| 3 | What I mean is , you always think that you 're tomorrow 's man and yesterday 's child and then suddenly you realise that today is the tomorrow you were always looking forward to , if you see what I mean , and quite soon you 'll be yesterday 's man yourself . ’ |
| 4 | Those practices must be brought to an end , and I know that my hon. Friends will strongly support the Government when we say that enough is enough and that if we are to have a compulsory competitive tendering regime , it must be one under which the private and public sectors are able to compete with absolute equality . |
| 5 | Acknowledge that today is Wednesday , but tell them that you bought it on Tuesday and it is bad and you want a replacement . |
| 6 | You have specified a model subtype name which is currently not installed and hence is unknown in LIFESPAN . |
| 7 | Erm in terms of York , the pattern of employment er within York City is fairly dispersed and obviously is n't particularly well served by the Central Railway station . |
| 8 | We are shattered and so is the garden . |
| 9 | Lady Blatch , Middlesbrough 's ‘ sponsor ’ minister at the Department of the Environment , said ‘ I do n't know how many hurdles you have had to jump but today is the beginning of the biggest of all the challenges . |
| 10 | First questio , the question , and I 'd like to comment as well is , erm , what , are there plans for the future of greatly expanding Environment Department , er , and why is it er , and why is it not being put through policy , first . |
| 11 | Brown ( 1984 ) again is recommended as also is Struthers and Speight ( 1986 , Ch. 4 ) . |
| 12 | Perhaps he will think that here is the smallest point in nature . |
| 13 | I mean , do you think that perhaps is , is more advanced than Plato , because Plato on this incredible myth of his of going on this journey where ordinary people 's view of the form was n't very good so they would come back in an inf perhaps in an inferior form , but I get the feeling that with we have the opportunity of seeing something that is going to improve us anyway , that we 've all got an equal chance of some kind of improvement . |
| 14 | What is valuable is to see that here is a critic writing at the top of his bent . |
| 15 | It takes little imagination to see that here is a huge resource for the study of consumer and retailing habits , but if we follow the practice suggested recently by some archivists and take the network with its constituent data flows and data tables , software resources and analytical outputs as a whole , as the document itself , this is a major site for examining the cultural effect of these systems . |
| 16 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 17 | I ca n't , I mean that really is just gross . |
| 18 | The cities MP says that simply is n't fair . |
| 19 | It marks a change of speed for a business long associated with the work of Erte ; the artist 's death , and the end of a lease , have prompted a reconsideration and director Ray Perman has decided that now is the right time to relaunch the gallery with a series of exhibitions . |
| 20 | Museum directors have decided that now is the time to proceed with this daunting project which is estimated to cost between £15,000 to £20,000 to complete VH–UTH to static display standards . |
| 21 | I have decided that now is the time to get tough . |
| 22 | I have decided that now is the time to retire as Captain and that someone else should take the helm . |
| 23 | Joel , 38 , who won Gola League title honours with Runcorn 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have had a good time as a player and I have decided that enough is enough . |
| 24 | And only when I have experienced this pressure , through them , and absorbed it , can I feel that here is the beginning of an interpretation . |
| 25 | It sounds perfectly reasonable , but you will perceive that here is the nub of the matter . |
| 26 | Learning plays a minor role in communicating and apparently is not itself affected by it . |
| 27 | NEVER PUT ANYTHING ON THE RAILWAY LINE — I do n't think many of you would be stupid enough to do this but believe me it has been done and still is done quite often . |
| 28 | Other documentation you receive and certainly is this one and you ca n't do your job without that and that 's a blank of of the layout . |
| 29 | All that statutory reforms have done as yet is to make piecemeal extensions of the remedies afforded to members so that they can be invoked by personal representatives of members . |
| 30 | I 'm in the dark hotel at the side of the black loch and it 's close to midnight and I 'm drunk but not stoned and so 's Andy and his pal Howie and I 'm sitting in the old ballroom on the lower ground floor , looking out over the waters to where grey ghostly moonlit mountains rise , tops glowing softly , capped with snow , and I 'm playing computer games . |