Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is that nothing actually went wrong . |
| 2 | One reason is that nothing very much happened between October 1963 and October 1964 in terms of high policy . |
| 3 | As Adam Woolf of Crisis explains : ‘ Our perception is that everyone else is enjoying themselves at Christmas with roast turkey , mince pies and pudding . |
| 4 | But the likelihood is that everyone else is consuming the same product ; with the inexorable rise in the number of books in print , there are now approaching 600,000 different titles to choose from , allowing each of us to tailor our reading precisely to our own individual needs and preferences . |
| 5 | Part of the reason there has been so little bloodshed is that nobody yet is certain who killed Mr Gandhi or why . |
| 6 | Part of the problem of having a broken human nature is that we easily deceive ourselves . |
| 7 | And part of the reason of course the dialect is gone is that we unconsciously sort of translate what we 're going to say into good English so that we 're understood . |
| 8 | Our attitude , and I think it 's a totally principled and right one , is that we already have services which are statutory services which we do not provide adequately . |
| 9 | My feeling is that we probably need to create a set of interlocutors on a regional basis who can have the right kind of influence on EC regional and social policies . ’ |
| 10 | The down side is that we probably have the toughest Xmas/New Year you could image ( excluding Crewe ! ! ) . |
| 11 | The main problem is that we rarely know what we really want . |
| 12 | The problem here though and the show is quietly and very deliberately subtitled ‘ Lesbians take photographs ’ is that we rarely see a pairing of two sleek , longhaired and long-legged blondes . |
| 13 | One honest booklet on food and health explains , ‘ The main reason why there are conflicting views about the effect of food on health is that we simply do n't know all the answers yet . |
| 14 | I am , however , open to reasoned and informed argument and I await with interest your correspondents ' blueprint for reversing our economic decline , bearing in mind that the stark choice is that we either increase our earnings or we accept a quite considerable reduction in our living standards . |
| 15 | Most likely of all is that we partially trust one another , and each play some mixed sequence of COOPERATE and DEFECT , ending up with some intermediate sum of money . |
| 16 | It is not enough to assume that all that has happened is that we no longer believe in hell , and that mutes , carrying black ostrich plumes , are out of favour . |
| 17 | ‘ The problem in Britain , ’ says the chief economist of a leading car manufacturer , ‘ is that we no longer have a sufficient supply base , all-round , to meet demand . ’ |
| 18 | I suppose the only obvious change since her death is that we no longer have our Wednesday sessions . ’ |
| 19 | The fact is that we still have a great deal to learn about the skills that animals use to find their way around their own home ranges and to travel the globe . |
| 20 | ‘ What 's disturbing is that we still have quite a narrow industrial base , ’ said Mr Scott . |
| 21 | Yet the paradox is that we only use the word hypocrisy when we have reasons for believing that we have found the thing itself . |
| 22 | similarly no information held in-house relating to those companies should be assessed , ie the principle to adopt is that we only access information available in the public domain . |
| 23 | One reason for being hopeful is that we now make machines which do some of the things that brains do , although we must remember that there may be important ways in which brains and existing computers work on different principles . |
| 24 | One common occurrence , as a consequence of this obsession with secrecy , is that we now have a system of government by leaks . |
| 25 | ‘ The result is that we now have a more sensitive version of the traditional pig-sticker , which is ten times more accurate than the old tool in testing and calculating the hardness or softness of clay . ’ |
| 26 | A piece of hot news is that we now have an offer from BR to visit the Shrewsbury signal box on the 6th of April , though the number of visitors is limited to twenty . |
| 27 | As a result with good control of working capital , our cash flow overall was virtually the same as in the previous year in spite of the significant profit collapse and although there may be some further redundancies this year , I do n't expect them to be in any way on the same scale as during nineteen ninety two and the important thing is that we now have costs in line with the lower level of revenue as we look into nineteen ninety three . |
| 28 | The effect on our own accounts is that we now show all the mainstream activities of the Council together , and they are then separated out from the entries for all the other funds , appeals , and trust funds and so on . |
| 29 | But , the strength of this particular is that we now know an awful lot of about one another . |
| 30 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |