Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you know what I mean that 's as you know I , I ca n't even lie in a bath any more , it 's not fair ! |
| 2 | Or , I mean this is if it 's an average , and sort of an even acceleration . |
| 3 | my Lord all that follows now is that question costs in this my Lord there is no doubt that er this is the painful experience for both the plaintiffs and of course for doctor who is unrepresented and therefore must inevitably feel rather isolated in this matter erm , however in my there is no reason to er depart from the usual principal of the costs which should follow the event and of course we know as it the loss on the subsidiary appeal and so I do n't press the point on that cos the reality as you 've already probably anticipated is all the work has been done erm on this appeal the subsidiary appeal I ask , I do n't ask for costs on that , in my submission it should be both sides bear their own costs on that , the reason I say that is that there was no , there was no cross appearing in respect on it in effect , cos after all , all you were doing was er trying to get the same as the other side if we lost , so no worm of can of beans can be done by doctor I had one parallel in my whole skeleton on that , er , but we have substantially succeeded on the main issue and so I , I would ask that costs in favour of the plaintiffs on , on that and here and indeed below . |
| 4 | The reason say that is that I mean , Wednesday erm nights is , if you like , football nights . |
| 5 | The reason I say this is that they dive just like a peregrine , folding their wings and plummeting like an arrow into the sea to catch their prey . |
| 6 | The reason I say this is that i ) , there does not appear to be financial problems with the Club and ii ) , there has been no talk of buying another class player . |
| 7 | Western observers in Baku say this is because the Armenians are better organised , rather than that Azerbaijan lacks arms and equipment . |
| 8 | He goes you smell gorgeous is that California Poppy I goes merr like California syrup of Figs sumdy 's let aff , definately . |
| 9 | Most people believe that the British tax system is highly progressive , that is , the more you earn the more you pay , and the routine chant of those who earn most is that they are over-taxed , that ‘ if taxes were reduced we 'd have more incentive to work harder ’ . |
| 10 | Deborah and Elaine are obviously close ; Deborah 's flying entrance on this last remark brought a ‘ The only time I know I look wrong is if Mum says I look ‘ cute' ! |
| 11 | in the village and one of you know that 's than than the county council which is over the river in house . |
| 12 | ‘ Intuitively I know that 's as misogynist as it gets , ’ says Shocked . |
| 13 | And if it does n't seem to be there ask Phil because , you know that is that only by asking him that I discovered that these worked last week . |
| 14 | What I find strange is that England have got nothing to do with our tour of Ireland and Wales , yet they get the big game and all the money . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose that 's because of Karl coming back . |
| 16 | I suppose that 's because of the environment ? ’ |
| 17 | She was about m add , ‘ I suppose that 's because you 're a tramp and sleep amongst them at night sometimes , ’ but stopped herself in time . |
| 18 | I suppose that 's because they had to kill him first . |
| 19 | I suppose that 's because I hold your life in my hands . |
| 20 | The only reason you believe that is because you want to ! ’ |
| 21 | Ironically , the family believe that 's because Rebekah is so healthy . |
| 22 | er and some of the solutions that are offered to reduce those crimes involve women restricting , their movements and their freedoms , but I think one of the other reasons why generally people who are victims of crime be they men or women feel guilty is because one of the implicit elements in tradition crime prevention strategies is for us to reduce the opportunity for crime |
| 23 | Lower that is than the County Council . |
| 24 | However , I believe this is but a drop in the ocean compared to the vast number of communities that could play some form of active role , however modest . |
| 25 | Leaders of the Colombian Federation of Teachers ( FECODE ) , believe this is because of a shift in policy in the early 1980s , when union members started to challenge educational policy instead of confining themselves to labour demands . |
| 26 | And what I find interesting is that it 's the sheer vitality of the English sound — it 's not just the Liverpool sound , it 's the English sound — the vitality , the sensuality , the letting one 's hair down quality , that is exactly what the Continentals admired in Dunstable , and strangely enough in a way what Elgar 's got — this incredible sort of desire not to be over formal and to break down certain formal barriers which seems to be so characteristic of English music . |
| 27 | The things I find so tragic , and I was talking to some girls erm in a sixth form college recently , and the thing that I find saddest is that the schools evade the issue . |
| 28 | For instance , a good reason for observing a law whose content you find objectionable is that it is a law and therefore part of a system of mandatory rules which has value as a system because of its overall results , results which are dependent on subjects observing laws which they find objectionable . |
| 29 | But what they find intolerable is that penalties unrelated to the ‘ offence ’ should be imposed . |
| 30 | One aspect of microcomputers which users find frustrating is that if the school librarian or teacher has access to only one type of microcomputer e.g. a BBC-B or an IBM PC , there is no compatibility between the machines . |