Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 32 | Perhaps the greatest truth ever discovered is that we create our own reality . |
| 33 | The irony is that what gave me and other lesbians the |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Our experience of the average guitarist is that they know what they want and they wo n't be fooled into buying fresh air simply on the strength of a good review ! |
| 37 | ‘ The only problem is that they taught me to swear like a trooper . ’ |
| 38 | The great thing about families is that they keep your feet firmly on the ground — sometimes more firmly than you 'd like . |
| 39 | Quite apart from anything else , the most likely immediate consequence for them is that they lose their jobs . ’ |
| 40 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 41 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating , and the proof of people skills is that they make it as likely as possible that we achieve our objectives with people . |
| 42 | The only problem with the guides is that they tell you little of the quality of the goods in the shop . |
| 43 | Another problem with aggregates is that they hide their constituent elements . |
| 44 | Or ‘ The trouble with self-made men is that they worship their creator . ’ |
| 45 | To the extent that Europeans know of this Oxbridge dominance , my experience is that they regard it with some satisfaction ( they have generally heard of Oxford and Cambridge ) , but that their satisfaction changes to complacency when they reflect upon what they believe to be the uniquely class-ridden structure of English society . |
| 46 | The answer is that they told us that they tried this several times and it did not work . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | The danger is that they stop you looking . |
| 49 | Whilst it is no doubt true that the heaviness of early Soviet ICBMs and the ‘ dirtiness ’ of their warheads stemmed from crude propulsion and guidance systems , all that matters is that they accomplished what they were designed to . |
| 50 | The most likely explanation is that they saw it as a way to keep the Catholic-educated Mary out of Scotland , while maintaining their formal loyalty to her , thereby maximizing their opportunity to advance the Protestant cause while minimizing the need to clash directly with their sovereign ; there was , after all , no sign that Mary was particularly interested in the internal affairs of her kingdom , and although it was a gamble , and a risky one , leaving her to continue to enjoy life in France appeared to be the best chance they had . |
| 51 | Alexei , what my brothers meant to say is that they await your command . |
| 52 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 53 | The thing is Danny is that they said they 'd only bought the thing in July . |
| 54 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 55 | And if some of the material in the book seems occasionally to verge on the utopian , it is worth reminding ourselves that , as Jan Montefiore says in Feminism and Poetry , ‘ the value of utopias is that they enable us to imagine possibilities of difference for the brute contingent world ’ . |
| 56 | The value of concepts and cognitive structures is that they enable us to classify events and to make judgments and ( unlike repertoires of behaviours and lists of facts ) enable us to solve new problems . |
| 57 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 58 | The other aspect of theories is that they enable us to make generalizations . |
| 59 | The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs . |
| 60 | Another potential problem for patients is that they find themselves in the role of information-giver , and it is often information of a very personal nature . |