Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun pl] is [conj] " in BNC.

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1 First , its impulse is highly authoritarian : its only explanation for the fact that tens , probably hundreds of thousands of women choose to go swimming or do aerobics is that are suffering from ‘ false consciousness ’ : ‘ They 're all wrong , they must change , and here 's why . ’
2 One of the reasons for owning rather than borrowing textbooks is that they need to be marked to get the best out of them .
3 The trouble with most biographies and press releases is that they are boring — very , very boring indeed .
4 My own experience of trying to teach and train managers is that it is extremely difficult to teach grownup people anything .
5 THE DIFFERENCE between regular country acts and their rock 'n' roll equivalents is that your NME -friendly guitar-basher enjoys and is expected to try out new riffs , to be playful and weird .
6 The important thing to bear in mind when cutting cornices is that the veiling is represented by the horizontal table .
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