Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] is [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | because he mentioned and I said is that the lady that lives in America ? |
| 2 | and Paul was coming up the stairs , I said is that the police , is that a police car ? |
| 3 | Er , I make the point I think that , erm , we should oppose the er , Deregulation Bill if it 's based on providing deregulation by Ministers , because I think that 's a constitutional point that is of great import , but the , the rest of it erm , are really sets of principles that I hope you 'd agree to , subject to amen amendment and dis discussion , because the information that we got is that the consultation period is going to be very tight indeed , and that it might not be able to go through the normal committee procedures in order to put things through erm , with er , proposals in that , er , in that respect . |
| 4 | Wittgenstein 's answer to the question with which we began is that the psychological verbs , as he calls them , are ‘ characterized by the fact that the third person of the present is to be verified by observation , the first person not ’ . |
| 5 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 6 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |