Example sentences of "is [pron] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , there is now a widespread supposition that there is nothing whatever of any theoretical validity or pedagogic value in behaviourist thinking . |
| 2 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 3 | There is nothing whatever upon which Mariology could be built ! |
| 4 | None of these five constituencies is itself anything like an authentic community , and the notion that the two County constituencies could be thought of as parts of the same community as the three City constituencies is laughable . |
| 5 | And not in a million quintillion millenia is she anything like me . ’ |
| 6 | The gardener of the family is the Queen Mother , whose gardens at her Scottish hideaways , the Castle of Mey and Birkhall , are stunning , and it is she who over the years has made them so . |
| 7 | We need to modify the way chickens are kept so that this is something which at least is extremely rare ; we should try to prevent it completely . |
| 8 | In the novel , however , Marcel finds that this exploration mostly leads to a dead end , since the conscious effort of remembering , which is after all an effort of mind and will , is something which at best yields only a lifeless image of the past . |
| 9 | ( Mager I 962 47 ) In fact the definition of objectives and the evaluation of progress is something which as teachers we do all the tune ; it simply happens to be true that many of us do it very amateurishly and very half-heartedly , indeed we do it badly . |
| 10 | This immediate consciousness of dependence is something which in Kantian language might be called ‘ transcendental ’ . |
| 11 | For many of the students the course gives them their first stage experience and this is something which in itself produces a lot of concentrated work . |
| 12 | Blanketing everything is something which in other places is known as a sea fret but which in Redcar is called a Cleveland cocktail sling together two parts ICI , one British Steel and another of general fug and serve it up stirred not shaken . |
| 13 | ‘ Taking a picture of you , my dear , is something anyone with any taste or sense would do , ’ said Fairfax . |
| 14 | This particular breach … conducting the premises , or permitting them to be conducted , as a house of ill-fame … is one which in my judgment was not remedied by merely stopping the user . |
| 15 | ‘ ( a ) as of right , from any final judgment of the Court of Appeal where the matter in dispute on the appeal amounts to or is of the value of 5,000 New Zealand dollars or upwards , or where the appeal involves , directly or indirectly , some claim or question to or respecting property or some civil right amounting to or of the value of 5,000 New Zealand dollars or upwards ; and ( b ) at the discretion of the Court of Appeal from any other judgment of that court , whether final or interlocutory , if , in the opinion of that court , the question involved in the appeal is one which by reason of its great general or public importance , or otherwise , ought to be submitted to His Majesty in Council for decision . |
| 16 | When st when staff ca n't all receive that information at the same time but they y'know they can read but they need the information but that ca n't all receive it simultaneously they as many staff many staff , one more and the last one is one you like computer stuff like that where you 've got a lot of detailed information you know that you want detailed information |
| 17 | Well , indeed , we might be saying , hang on a minute , is there something with the plan ? |
| 18 | Say is there something on the data |
| 19 | ‘ Is there something about my work that 's been bothering you , Headmaster ? ’ |
| 20 | The question arises : is there something about such jobs that directly causes the people who do them to go off sick more than others ? |
| 21 | Is there something about woman 's experience as a biological and social being that gives her a common identity and differentiates her forever from the male ? |
| 22 | Is there something about where one girl was using what would be boys language when |
| 23 | Is there something in the English soul that wants to bond with land ? |
| 24 | Bad taste , do you , do you really rather disapprove anything that it is in any of them , do you think it inappropriate , not on , is there something in bad taste ? |
| 25 | Is there something in the boilers commission ? |
| 26 | Yes that 's it exactly , him as well is there nothing on rehearsals |
| 27 | What I 'm really searching for is a bit more evidence from the C , all participants as to why the principle of expanding an exis existing settlement has been rejected , I well appreciate that those who lived in the settlement that was chosen would not like it , but that 's not the point I 'm getting at , is there nothing in this principle of building on what 's there ? |
| 28 | I thought that was brilliant , is there somebody at the door ? |
| 29 | So is there somebody on the site all the time |
| 30 | Yeah , so what 's the next one , is there one between twenty five and forty ? |