Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , again if you 're not comfortable doing this kind of thing then you should n't do it obviously , and the last thing on the monthly calendar card is as you 'll see er , er on the twenty fourth , twenty fifth , twenty sixth and twenty seventh , it has another personal message there . |
| 2 | The reason Scottish Equitable is proposing this deal is because it is short of the necessary capital needed to carry on growing its business . |
| 3 | The reason vitamin D was regarded as a vitamin is because it is found in our food , and this is important for those who do not receive adequate exposure to sunlight — for example , the house-bound elderly . |
| 4 | Elrond 's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly . |
| 5 | The first question I want to ask of contemporary antiracism is whether it does not collude in accepting that the problems of ‘ race ’ and racism are somehow peripheral to the substance of political life . |
| 6 | ‘ Give me a chance to prove myself , Mrs Smelley , and then you would n't ‘ ave to come out in all weathers , when you suddenly discover you 've taken more bookin 's than you expected . ’ |
| 7 | The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect . |
| 8 | ‘ Madam , the Great Seal is as you know , on the sovereign 's demise , temporarily entrusted to the lord chancellor , ’ he said , beneficently placing it in her hands . |
| 9 | One question to bear in mind is whether it might in certain circumstances be a breach of fiduciary duty to include an exemption clause in a contract with a customer . |
| 10 | As , managing director of business psychologists , John Nicholson Associates , explained : ‘ A crude analogy is if you are a fleet manager and one of you cars is not working properly , then you check out the problem and see if it can be fixed in-house or go to external specialists to get it back on the road in peak condition as soon as possible . ’ |
| 11 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 12 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 13 | The golden rule is if you 're reversing you must look behind you ! |
| 14 | The general rule is if it looks bad , it probably is bad , so let's get it right . |
| 15 | Yeah I genuinely look all I can say about this new album is if I 'd have continued recording for the last twenty odd years and had a sustained recording career like Cliff continued singing , this would have been the album that I would 've ended up doing anyway . |
| 16 | Another reason why Satan and demons are more usually rejected by modern scholarship is because they are seen as mythological explanations of realities now explainable by science . |
| 17 | No , well except that it would , it would happen to some extent , I mean the key is whether you , whether or not when a complaint comes in whether you can assess that it 's likely to go |
| 18 | ‘ The first criterion is whether they can sing . |
| 19 | Your only chance of living is if you do what I say . ’ |
| 20 | Erm , the alternative is if you are going to retain some form of erm , quality group , I guess it would be done through that anyway . |
| 21 | At the outset of my investigation one of my civil servants said to me : ‘ My test of the review is whether you do anything about the Death Grant . ’ |
| 22 | This is why the most critical thing for anyone who experiences distress is whether they are helped or hindered by friends , relatives and colleagues . |
| 23 | The most fundamental issue at stake is whether it represents merely a continuation of the earlier process of suburbanization and metropolitan deconcentration , albeit on a much larger geographical scale , or instead constitutes a fundamental switch away from the urban concentration process associated with industrialization towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ settlement pattern based on medium-sized and small centres ( Hamnett and Randolph , 1983a ; Robert and Randolph , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | erm another area of my work is as I er writing workshops , the writing workshops are very different from the normal writing workshops there based at galleries and they take groups of people round an exhibition recording their comments on either one particular picture or the exhibition as a whole and then with my help we put the comments into poems that are then displayed along side the exhibits , erm this work I do with erm all sorts of people with children people with special needs , disabled people and , and that 's really where my interest in art erm comes in and I find that its a great leveller for people who would like to express themselves and have perhaps have difficulty by aiding , by looking at paintings and being able to see perhaps emotions or images that they , they feel themselves , so in all areas erm I find painting in my areas of work , painting influences me and has done for as , as long as I can remember . |
| 25 | So a lot of , a lot of the problems with some of the areas of the work is because you do it so infrequent it 's not that you ca n't do it , it 's that you feel |
| 26 | The reason why I wo n't exhibit this portrait is because I 'm afraid it shows the secret of my heart . ’ |
| 27 | And the reason I call it a candid portrait is because I do n't think that the he may have seen somebody there with a camera , but he certainly was n't posing for the camera . |
| 28 | The only time you do n't pay a self-employed stamp is if you your business earns , yo you can actually get away it , if you 've lost money on your own business on paper or if you 've earned |
| 29 | All that science could say is : The universe is as it is now because it was as it was then . |
| 30 | Now some doctors could conceivably still be frightened off , but we must presume , I think , that doctors are literate people , that they can understand what the law is if it is told to them , and the medical societies and other groups are making available to them the workings of this particular Act . |