Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The awful thing is that one almost agrees . |
| 2 | As Gabriel Josipovici has said , ‘ To imagine , like the traditional novelist , that one 's work is an image of the real world , to imagine that one can communicate directly to the reader what it is that one uniquely feels , that is to fall into the real solipsism , which is , to paraphrase Kierkegaard on despair , not to know that one is in a state of solipsism ’ ( The World and the Book ) . |
| 3 | Like people saying PJ Harvey will be amazing when she gets outside herself … what they do n't realise is that she already has . |
| 4 | Even though she has become Princess of Wales , the price Diana will probably pay is that she never gets to wear a crown . |
| 5 | The difficulty is , is that there also needs to be some work done to evaluate alternatives , because clearly there is widespread concern about outbreak of er , sheep scab , not only in this area but indeed across the country . |
| 6 | All I will permit myself to say is that there clearly exists a coherent body of thought within the present Conservative parliamentary Party ( supported , it would seem from the number of signatures added to the ‘ Fresh Start ’ petition circulated at the 1992 Conservative Party Conference , by a large number of members in the country ) , which is increasingly concerned by the direction of events in Europe and which makes the connection between this and Britain 's recent economic woes . |
| 7 | The main point which emerges from considering the historical evidence is that there certainly has been change in the amount and type of support offered , but that this can not be seen simply as a decline from a high to a low point . |
| 8 | The first is that there still exists a widespread misunderstanding about the nature and purpose of evaluation . |
| 9 | But the most striking thing about Bagehot 's essay on Peel , in the light of the last full week of this election campaign , is that it simply does not apply to Major at all . |
| 10 | She believes the general lack of women participants in the sport is that it simply does not appeal . |
| 11 | One problem with the orthodox account is that it simply does not square with the facts about when and where riots happen — and in particular , whereabouts in the prison system they occur . |
| 12 | One danger with this emphasis on the language of adults is that it easily leads to the conclusion that adults actually cause developmental progress by the way in which they speak to young children . |
| 13 | The first thing to note about the raw strategy is that it dearly wants to have it all . |
| 14 | The first is that it increasingly appears that LTP-like phenomena are not restricted to the hippocampus , but can under appropriate circumstances be shown in many other regions of the brain , including especially the cerebral cortex as Lynn Bindman in London , and Lyosha Voronin , in Moscow , have shown . |
| 15 | A point of greater relevance to the UK is that it also differs greatly from trading and investment blocs under which a country 's trade and investment flows to countries within the bloc are free but there are restrictions between the bloc as a whole and the rest of the world . |
| 16 | One of the unintended consequences of its use , however , as we shall see later , is that it also offers to readers an unusually rigid and frequently biased conception of gender . |
| 17 | A key point about the former is that it also invokes in practice some measure of ‘ tolerance ’ on both sides , some concept of ‘ trust ’ . |
| 18 | Now the thing with the bar-tailed lark is that it just lives in the desert where nothing else does and to complicate matters it lives in the forbidden zone . |
| 19 | But Gale expects that to change.A key benefit for Hong Kong Telecom is that it already has a major Chinese investor in the shape of the Peking-owned China International Trust & Investment Corp , which bought a 20% stake in 1990 . |
| 20 | The difficulty with this direct form of government is that it rarely survives the death of the caudillo . |
| 21 | What gives this paper its particular importance in a philosophical sense is that it implicitly raises questions about the nature of knowledge in social work — or what we take to be knowledge about social work . |
| 22 | But for all the triumphs of the Socratic spirit , its true significance is that it repeatedly prompts a regeneration of art — art in the metaphysical sense which is its widest and deepest sense . |
| 23 | One of the major reasons for the widespread failure of rural developments is that it usually does not serve the interests of the people at whom it is ostensibly aimed . |
| 24 | The argument is that it therefore provides a good basis for a fair and orderly grading structure . |
| 25 | The ultimate strength of capitalist global hegemony is that it continually works , and works very hard , to persuade people that the system is natural , fair and fundamentally better than any realistic alternative . |
| 26 | The great disadvantage of a CAD system is that it currently has no data structure . |
| 27 | Erm , I think it 's worth saying that er us j just reiterating on what councillor has just said and that is that I think most tenants are very well aware of the right to buy and er er the motion being unnecessary but what happens with the motion is that it possibly attracts people who really in many ways can not actually afford to buy er to take advantage of their rights but who might be persuaded by very persuasive tactics to do so . |
| 28 | One of the persistent misconceptions about professional work in the human service occupations is that it mainly takes place face to face with clients or patients and that time spent with others about the client or patient is a necessary but regrettable adjunct to the real work . |
| 29 | The reason why the present government nevertheless eventually sanctioned this book is that it mainly covers the war years , when the secret services were inevitably more widely tolerated than at other times . |
| 30 | But from what little I do know of it , my understanding is that it basically dramatises the same power relationships , and so seems to appeal to the same inequalities . |