Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing is that although garments designed with the STANDARD version are symmetrical , ( except in the case of a specially tapered raglan or saddle shoulder sleeve top ) , the actual shaping instructions are not always exactly the same on both sides of the diagram . |
| 2 | The trouble is that whereas actors move and speak as nature would have most of us do ( only rather better ) , in the performance of music we are using tools ( with the exception of the human voice ) which are in some way external ; they have to be mastered from without rather than from within — and things do go wrong . |
| 3 | The reason is that since mares have been mentioned , they fall within the current universe of discourse , and by the rule of maximisation ( the details of which are not entirely clear ) must be included in the reference of horses . |
| 4 | Part of the problem is that once children go to ‘ big ’ school , parents expect them to do ‘ proper ’ school work , says Neville Bennett , Professor of Primary Education at Exeter University . |
| 5 | At the root of many of the dilemmas and contradictions is that while mothers gain a great deal materially from these benefits , they run the risk , at an ideological level , of merely con-firming the link between being a woman and necessarily , therefore , becoming a mother . |
| 6 | But I think one of the things that men are afraid of is that when women get into the things the attitudes change , as we were saying about bigotry and religion and so on with football , I do n't think that men want that because this is the perfect club they can enjoy and indulge all that , but if women really get into it the thing will change as society does . |
| 7 | The er , that kind of thing is never published , and or even , of course , it ca n't be published normally , and the result is that when analysts draw conclusions based on this very confidential data , or who were talking vastly extent . |
| 8 | ‘ A lesson to airlines is that when delays occur , communicating is the best way to avoid passenger distress , ’ said Mr Tony Farrell of North Sea Ferries UK , which commissioned the survey . |
| 9 | The other problem is that as companies shed more labour to remain competitive , the fewer people there are who have real spending power and that in itself will be a major inhibiting factor on recovery . |
| 10 | A major problem , of course , is that as job-searchers become more and more pessimistic about their chances of finding work , so their motivation is reduced and their chances of succeeding in finding jobs become even more remote . |
| 11 | An implication of this , it should be noted , is that if firms need to justify the use of CAD on cost grounds then they can not , at mid-1980s UK prices , give each draughtsman a work-station . |
| 12 | The argument is that if firms find that they are producing more than is being demanded , they will observe an involuntary increase in their inventories of unsold goods and so will rectify this by cutting back on production and laying off workers . |
| 13 | The real problem is that if solicitors prepare the written brief , there is much less of a case for denying them the right of audience to argue that brief before the court . |
| 14 | The second fact issued before us and it 's one that I referred to er when we did it , debated this last time is that if members do take seriously the whole question of |
| 15 | What all this means is that if non-Tories get the bit between their teeth , they have a chance . |
| 16 | It is that if governments did not do this kind of thing the probability of their interfering in the workings of the market economy would a that much greater . |
| 17 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 18 | Indeed the whole point of Smith 's contention in his 1776 treatise The Wealth of Nations is that if individuals pursue their own self-interests then , as it were , an invisible hand will guide all their separate strivings and competition and lead them into the greater good for society as a whole . |
| 19 | The theory is that if museums save on salaries and paper clips they will have more money to spend on works of art ; the reality is that they will almost certainly be saving on the works of art to make up for inadequate funding overall . |
| 20 | One argument is that if Banks cancelled debts , Third World countries would only borrow more . |
| 21 | The other explanation is that because seven-year-olds produce more inadequate messages than older children , their partners need to do more than equal the performance of the other age groups — they need to exceed it considerably . |
| 22 | More telling still is that where ASWs considered relationship problems primary no woman referred by GPs was sectioned . |
| 23 | In your own words describe what a creditor is and when creditors arise . |