Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pers pn] is " in BNC.

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1 Not everyone understands it is HC which makes people behave strangely .
2 George , 60 , said : ‘ I 've got the President on my locker at work and everyone thinks it is hysterical .
3 They explain that if someone thinks it is wrong to be gay because of their religious beliefs , three training sessions will not change them .
4 I says it is now .
5 and er me dad says ooh it 's a video recorder and he , I says no it is n't , he says it is , it 's a video recorder , I says it is n't dad , I said Christ I bloody bought it
6 'ee theenks 'ee is .
7 Everyone says she is n't pretty , but she looks beautiful to me , ’ he smiles .
8 The cynic in me says it is because the larger firms do not do small audits and because abolition would cause problems for the ACCA , which would have more difficulty maintaining an audit regulatory presence as fewer of their members would be auditing .
9 The only force which separates them is the Church , the one single coherent organisation in this country which binds like mortar the different races and degrees of this nation .
10 While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change .
11 The challenge , therefore , which confronts us is formidable .
12 As explained in chapter 3 , if the likelihood ratio test suggests that the cross-equation restrictions are not valid , it implies that the model which imposes them is invalid .
13 Another part of the proposals which worries me is the Scottish Office taking responsibility for more of the main roads .
14 The Library 's historical archive is arranged in a reasonable historical order , and is contained in acid-free boxes , but it is at the moment unindexed , and the store room which contains it is totally unsuitable for archive consultation .
15 Socrates is a teacher , but his function as he himself describes it is to uncover in the minds of those he teaches what they really know already , but have simply failed to recognise or make explicit .
16 Near the top the trees die out and the landscape which replaces them is a shock , for here the rock enters into full possession , turbulent acres of it , broken and jagged .
17 It 'll also submit the specification to standards organisations and X/Open , which says it is ready to receive the specification .
18 It will also submit the specification to standards organisations and X/Open , which says it is ready to receive the specification .
19 Overall , the European market for Unix systems rose by 11% in value last year , compared to 15% in 1991 , says IDC , which says it is now worth some some $7,600m .
20 The move follows the adoption of a tough stance by Chelmsford Borough Council , which says it is obliged to enforce the existing Shops Act .
21 ‘ A high exchange rate and the monetary policy which underpins it is just as tough an instrument as domestic credit controls , tax increases or cuts in public expenditure . ’
22 ‘ A high exchange rate and the monetary policy which underpins it is just as tough an instrument as domestic credit controls , tax increases or cuts in public expenditure . ’
23 The decline of traditional industries , and the development of the service sector — which realises it is necessary to use women 's experience to get ahead — eg new opportunities , development of new business , women 's purchasing power and Courtaulds .
24 One direction which interests me is the development of what one might call cognitive archaeology , if that is not too grandiose a term : using the material evidence from the past to allow us to begin to say something useful about the way peoples thought , the way they used communication systems , the way they used symbols .
25 He reels off a list of names which shows he is in good company : Graham Gooch , Allan Lamb , David Gower , Ian Botham …
26 HIS left foot is pointing away from her , which shows he is not confident that he has succeeded in his attempt to dominate her .
27 The number which attends him is , I think , about twelve , which he brings together into a little school and instructs accordingly to their several degrees of proficiency …
28 But in the USSR the state which employs him is the sole employer and is the same state which determines whether he have a house or not .
29 In fact it is practically illegal to be an authentic Christian , because the world which surrounds us is founded radically on an established disorder before which the mere proclamation of the gospel is subversive . ’
30 Strength of vocal projection is also lacking in the opening five-strand chorus of the Credo , though the four-part ‘ Patrem omnipotentem ’ which follows it is more secure .
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