Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [is] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Gentleman follows such matters closely and he will be aware that the typical price of the major works that the national gallery must buy is several millions . |
| 2 | " What you must do is this : go back to the king and ask for three hundred barrels of wine and three hundred barrels of brandy . |
| 3 | What everybody must realize is this , the trade union movement is the meat on the Labour Party 's bones and without us the Party would be a skeleton , lost in a political wilderness . |
| 4 | Now the other thing we should remember is that between nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty two , certainly in the early nineteen eighties , eighty , eighty one , we were in the midst of a recession and so that should tell us that really people should have less money to spend on holidays . |
| 5 | What you must remember is that sexuality is as basic a consciousness as information . ’ |
| 6 | But perhaps the moral we should draw is that criticism is not , and can not be , such a discipline ( though literary history is , or may be ) . |
| 7 | Whether it should breed is another matter . |
| 8 | Ah er the other item that we must mention is any extra plastic bags |
| 9 | One of the things I I I found it very difficult to start with I must admit is that to prejudge that people would or would not go in . |
| 10 | The role which the tutor should adopt is that of a sounding board for students ' ideas and suggestions . |
| 11 | ‘ About art and commercialism , ’ said Brian , ‘ what you should say is this : that advertising has developed into a valuable art-form and the big international companies are the art patrons of today , but instead of just keeping one artist the industry employs thousands of talented people . ’ |
| 12 | The example we 'll consider is that of Mt Etna in 1971 . |
| 13 | Now , what we 'll do is this Erm Get into your table and put a decimal there , now you can choose , I do n't mind what you have , right ? so you 're going to do some like that right . |
| 14 | Well what I 'll do is this is mine , Brenda to get so I 'm giving you |
| 15 | If we carry on to let 'em do as they like , what 'll happen is this section of the workforce will go in such a decline , they 'll be very profitable which as we 've already heard as Asda are trying it on now . |
| 16 | The risk of losing what little bust they might have is enough to discourage many an overweight lady from commencing to diet , so this diet must therefore be good news for them . |
| 17 | But if this motion is successful and a working party is established , one of the conclusions that we might reach is that General Secretaries should keep their sticky fingers off shops steward 's commissions . |
| 18 | On the other hand , what you 'll get is this continual lying going on about kidding everybody that everything 's better than it is and , of course , the eternal gratitude . |
| 19 | Once you get beyond its up to the minute good looks the first thing you 'll notice is that is price tag looks a little out of date . |
| 20 | What you might find is that out of er fifty women , thirty smoke , twenty do n't smoke . |
| 21 | Actually , what you 'll find is that working mothers are extremely efficient because they have to be . ’ |
| 22 | What the outsider might say is this . |
| 23 | A funny creation , it 's probably best to read it first before you change your life , as all it may signpost is another batch of second-rate lifestyle articles . |
| 24 | Oh for goodness sake , let's keep is that way . |
| 25 | Scots Wha Hae , which some may claim is another emotional dirge , has tremendous credentials ( tune going back to the 14th century and words by our national bard ) . |
| 26 | Second point I 'd make is that in relation to the table one . |
| 27 | erm it does n't give an answer , but if you could the only answer it could give is that what my tables say is wrong . |
| 28 | I mean , the first thing you 'd notice is that erm sex would be something that was , you know , a public duty and an open . |
| 29 | ‘ But whether he 'd come is another matter . ’ |
| 30 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |