Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I would say that ninety five percent of the people we take on are er either resting as you are or self employed anyway . |
| 2 | Their Lordships are satisfied with the course taken by the trial judge and are further satisfied that the adverse effect on the jury from the defendant 's point of view was in the end no greater than it would have been if counsel had not made his improper observation . |
| 3 | It was as well that she had not been because Marguerite looked most sceptical . |
| 4 | It is n't quite what it appears to be and success requires brain as well as brawn . |
| 5 | suggested that this might be because actinomycin had induced a change in local polynucleotide structure which in some manner slowed the dissociation of further drug molecules . |
| 6 | The use of calendar rather than trading time may be because interest accrues in calendar time , and information arrives during non-trading periods ( although possibly at a slower rate than in trading time ) . |
| 7 | Madame wondered how long it would be before Boy got his hair cropped short so that he looked just like the others . |
| 8 | The ideal time to make that kind of break would be as Sun shifts over to an object-oriented operating system , its next operating systems move , McNealy said . |
| 9 | The ‘ oldest profession ’ probably did n't come into being until man had started settling into agricultural communities around 15,000 BC . |
| 10 | Nor could they have been after business regained its initiative in 1947 . |
| 11 | ‘ It is or intention to ensure that the money is well spent , ’ Stuart explained . |
| 12 | The implication is that Saruman has been led from ethically neutral researches into the kind of wanton pollution and love of dirt we see in ‘ The Scouring of the Shire ’ by something corrupting in the love of machines or in the very desire for control over the natural world . |
| 13 | Since each matrimonial property or custody dispute is to be decided according to judicial discretion the result is that litigation abounds . |
| 14 | An alternative to this view is that identification does not begin until an entire word has been heard , so that only one word detector is activated for each word . |
| 15 | The thesis of that view is that man originated in rain forest and not in the more open habitats associated with the African finds . |
| 16 | The one certain thing is that workfare has no place in the economic policy of a civilized country . |
| 17 | I understand that his preliminary conclusion is that independence does exist in fact , but that the perception of independence is an issue . |
| 18 | The result is that melting takes place over a range of temperatures , and this range is a useful indication of sample crystallinity . |
| 19 | The most optimistic view is that evolution has involved a gradual accretion of new structures , added on to primitive ones common to all mammals . |
| 20 | One view is that calcium exerts a positive feedback effect on PLC , thereby generating periodic surges of InsP 3 during each spike . |
| 21 | The traditional view is that Parliament has no power to bind its successors either as to the manner or as to the form of subsequent legislation . |
| 22 | The result is that overtaking needs less gearchanging than you might imagine . |
| 23 | The second strand of the Governor 's argument is that deregulation has helped the overall growth of financial markets and institutions and in particular the growth of NBFIs . |
| 24 | The reason is that crime has increased dramatically under the Government . |
| 25 | The upshot is that area remains undeniably fragile as two clearances off the line , a fortuitous break off the bar and an own goal in this game would suggest that the manner in which Falkirk salvaged the point at Pittodrie suggests they are confident of scoring at least as many goals as the opposition during a match . |
| 26 | Either the imaginary has been ignored altogether , in which case Irigaray is mistakenly described as a biological essentialist ( Sayers , 1982 , p. 131 ; 1986 , pp. 42–8 ) , or else it has been interpreted as purely and simply a Lacanian concept , in which case the conclusion is that Irigaray has misunderstood or misread Lacan , and has not taken on board the implications of his theory ( see Mitchell and Rose , 1982 , pp. 54 6 ; Rose , 1985 , pp. 136 , 140 ; Ragland-Sullivan , 1986 , pp. 273–80 ) . |
| 27 | Indeed , since the claim is that punishment does not happen , questions of ‘ proportionality ’ simply do not arise . |
| 28 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 29 | Sometimes the assumption is that information equates to ‘ filing ’ , and ‘ filing ’ is low skill , low priority and about to be replaced by technology . |
| 30 | The chink in this otherwise disarming argument is that Nature exists only to the extent that we comprehend it . |