Example sentences of "[adv] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , one reason why Mr Hammer 's message has been received so eagerly is that , to a large extent , he is preaching to the converted . |
| 2 | In fact one thing he says er which might make you doubt his motives somewhat is that the reason for giving people more than one vote is that they 're more educated , but in general there is also a rough correlation between property ownership and education and so there 's a good reason to give the property owners more than one vote , people who own a lot of property more than one vote . |
| 3 | One reason they have not done better is that the largest and most inefficient Italian banks remain in the hands of the government , which has done its best to protect them . |
| 4 | Probably the chief reason why it is not better is because there are far too many performances . |
| 5 | A seventeenth-century libertine who wrote excellent satirical verse ( he 's the author of the famous epigram about Charles II : ‘ God bless our good and gracious king/Whose promise none relies on ; /Who never said a foolish thing , /Nor ever did a wise one ’ — one of the reasons I like him so much is that allegedly he recited it extempore to the king ) and some great , great poems about sex . |
| 6 | The problem that is now faced apparently is that there is not a sufficient number of paediatric specialists available to give clinical care . |
| 7 | You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not . |
| 8 | One advantage of the fly and inner going up together is that the inner is kept at a set distance from the fly , preventing the two from touching and allowing moisture to leak through to the inside . |
| 9 | And the net result of all of these things together is that it narrowed the cost value differentials between U K and overseas holidays . |
| 10 | Erm the main difference between a non-executive director and a director basically is that the directors are added to by the shareholders and are re-elected at the annual general meetings . |
| 11 | That 's what I 'm saying , right , now , what I 'm saying is there 's a , that , that , is , there 's , there 's , there 's , there 's things , there 's things , there 's guides to be able to do that , right , and the guide is there 's certain things you do and certain things you do n't do , because what you do basically is that you close him on his final objection which is what you 're just saying you did , right , but you close him on his final objection , how did you manage to close him on his final objection ? |
| 12 | The situation basically is that I am confident I can come to accommodation with Norfolk from my way of thinking as the neighbouring Highway Authority , those the people we 've got to er to make certain are on site , I 'm sure , I 'm confident enough to do that . |
| 13 | The trouble with reaching all day long is that there are no aims to your sailing . |
| 14 | How long is that longer term is still a matter for debate . |
| 15 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 16 | The difficulty many pupils experience with the scale illustrated below is that each division represents 0.2 of a centimetre and not 0.1 . |
| 17 | Now the other reason why of course you wo n't perhaps erm drive naturally is because of this little bit of tension at the fact that who 's this person sitting here looking at what I 'm doing ? and it it 's putting me off . |
| 18 | I , I could n't be adamant about the date of those but er c the reason that motor buses came in is because it was too costly to extend trolley bus routes . |
| 19 | For example , the S-S bond distance in is and this is appreciably longer than in the weakly interacting . |
| 20 | The increase in is and so we increase Y i for all nodes i of T B by . |
| 21 | The librarian listed the following as some of the improvements in library use to which the project had contributed : ( 1 ) improved general use in the past year during lesson time , particularly in IS and history ; |
| 22 | The only conditions the Taxman lays down is that you give the same amount regularly for at least four years and that you are a UK taxpayer . |
| 23 | Where many dieters fall down is that they concentrate on cutting down on food , cutting out pleasure from their lives . |
| 24 | Strikes are our abhorrence and the first principle laid down is that the owner 's property is the first care of the member of the society to see to' . |
| 25 | Majority voting satisfies conditions P , I and D. Where it breaks down is that it does not satisfy U , as we have seen with the example of the voting paradox given earlier . |
| 26 | Suppose that a company and its potential rivals in a market for a new product are in agreement that the rate at which it could drive costs down is as illustrated in figure 5.3 . |
| 27 | A better answer perhaps is that in some inherited way they carry the ‘ tune ’ of an ancient grief , lulled by earthly beauty but capable of being woken in Frodo in the end , as in Legolas by the cry of the gulls . |
| 28 | We also showed that grade two do significantly better than grade three , but most importantly perhaps is that we showed that patients with a vascular count that are less than twenty one do significantly better than patients with a vascular count of greater or equal to twenty one . |
| 29 | Most noticeable perhaps is that the dead minister of the newspaper account is removed completely , thereby channelling attention towards the sick minister in the vignette . |
| 30 | The other er aspect perhaps is if and again on the consultation leaflet and in the manual , effect on houses demolished . |