Example sentences of "is [adv] [subord] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah er if you , what was on tonight was er on the , there was a T V programme on tonight called What the Papers Say and the editor Alistaire Campbell was on tonight , he is actually quite left-wing and this paper will , is actually quite vehement about the government , much more than the Sun would ever be , it 's quite interesting , yet that is owned by Murdoch , but I have to say that I think that is only because Murdoch is n't liked in that way since to have |
| 2 | It is only because Bryan Gould is standing for leader that the soft left of the Labour Party has found a voice . |
| 3 | work permit ? — that 's bull : Pedersen ( joining Oldham ) , Bohinen ( Forest ) and Nilsen ( Sheff Utd ) are all leaving norway for england in these days and Nilsen is just as Frank not a regular in our World Cup squad . |
| 4 | The balance of the side is just as Bobby Robson would have wished it ; bearing in mind the need for midfield solidity , Rocastle would probably have played anyway . |
| 5 | But it is largely because Loch Ness is so biologically unproductive that it is also biologically stable : it is spared the seasonal booms and crashes in the populations of living things that are characteristic of more productive lakes . |
| 6 | It is largely because Africa is underpopulated . |
| 7 | The Very Model of a Man is at is best when Cain justifies his fratricide with this lethal logic . |
| 8 | Similarly , experts will talk about Persian carpets and Anatolian ( Turkish ) rugs , regardless of the fact that both countries produce items in all sizes , shapes and designs ; this is probably because Persia is most famous for its magnificent Court carpets , while Anatolia is viewed as the home of the prayer rug . |
| 9 | If that sounds like the sort of utterance one might expect from your typical entrepreneur , it is probably because Michael Hirst is a great believer in the art . |
| 10 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 11 | This is partly because Keyence 's complex technology requires expert attention . |
| 12 | This is partly because Barclays was already conducting , but quite separately , a product-costing exercise . |
| 13 | That is partly because Mr Major still needs a theme . |
| 14 | Maybe it is also because Finch Street is such a dirty little alley it is not the place anyone would try to lure me down . |
| 15 | He says he is now because April 's coming up . |
| 16 | It is here where Arsenal 's star has emerged . |
| 17 | Much of the new equipment used in the last five Tours is there because LeMond used it first . |
| 18 | It is there when Orwell calls the Left ‘ Bolshevik commissars , half gangster , half gramophone , escaped quakers , vegetarian cranks and back-room Labour party crawlers ’ , or when he dismisses the Marxist dialectic as an argumentative Pea-and-thimble trick ; there again when Waugh reviews Stephen Spender 's flatulent autobiography World within World ( 1951 ) : |
| 19 | NEW MAN John Bryan is there as Fergie hits the social scene yet again |
| 20 | While in Germany ‘ there is much common ground between the Bundesbank and the government on economic objectives ’ , it is precisely because Pöhl knew that this national consensus did not exist in the Community at large that he and the German government insisted on means of enforcing German policies on the economies of the member states . |
| 21 | It is precisely because Herbert Marcuse , for example , has retained the notion of the death instincts that he is to be seen as having advanced psychoanalytic sociology and social philosophy . |
| 22 | It is precisely because Mr Mugabe 's record is , in context , more than respectable , that the current repressive mood demonstrated by his government is disappointing . |
| 23 | It is precisely because Berlin is such a true mirror of so much European history that it always seems to embody so much of the darker , subconscious side of the European identity . |
| 24 | This is either because SSDs and health authorities have failed to identify the role of housing officers , or because , when they have , housing departments have failed to respond . |