Example sentences of "[is] [that] [pron] [vb base] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 2 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 3 | Quite apart from anything else , the most likely immediate consequence for them is that they lose their jobs . ’ |
| 4 | Another problem with aggregates is that they hide their constituent elements . |
| 5 | Or ‘ The trouble with self-made men is that they worship their creator . ’ |
| 6 | The same may be true of the Prinias horsemen , but the relief there is rather low , and an alternative is that they turn their eyes on us as guardians of the house : the ‘ terror-mask ’ , a concept we shall meet again . |
| 7 | I mean I think that my principle desire is that they pay their er they contribute to our income and pay their rent regularly and are able to do so . |
| 8 | The subtlety of the wrap-around influence of alien presuppositions is that they do their work before they are noticed . |
| 9 | The hidden message to the children is that you value their engagement in their work . |