Example sentences of "[vb pp] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 2 | What is here stressed is that there is , and for many decades has consistently been , an active and relatively vociferous body of thought among librarians concerned with the active exploitation of the collection and the development of busy programmes of dissemination . |
| 3 | An interesting additional finding which is stressed is that it appears that such people are more rather than less likely to exhibit qualities of psychological balance and social responsibility . |
| 4 | The fact presupposed is that the Earth revolves on its axis so that places on the Earth have varying positions relative to the Sun . |
| 5 | The reason that sales have not boomed is that many customers have been disappointed at what robots do for them . |
| 6 | However , what is expected is that the Bank of England will require all banks under the Banking Act of 1987 to keep a ratio of ‘ primary liquid assets ’ to some definition of deposit liabilities . |
| 7 | The reason that the Dalai Lama was included is that it will be an Inter-faith meeting . |
| 8 | The reason that a widening direction is included is because it is very easy for a narrowing to occur while the lengthening process is taking place . |
| 9 | A feature of Pauling 's theory now largely forgotten is that the chain of amino acids in a protein can , at least in principle , be twisted either to the left or the right , giving both left and right-handed helical structures . |
| 10 | What must never be forgotten is that the meaning of the word ‘ god ’ shall be such that its definition can be accepted by all the leading and reasonable people of all races , taught to all children , and be so firmly entrenched within the powers of reason and logic that it becomes inviolable . |
| 11 | We remember the dazzling tries of Gareth Edwards , Gerald Davies and the rest but what tends to be forgotten is that they needed the Welsh forwards to pulverise their opponents into submission first . |
| 12 | What might be forgotten is that Land had spent years in the laboratory perfecting the polarization process , schooling his scientific and inventive abilities , practising and repeating , learning his craft . |
| 13 | What is often forgotten is that many people derive their living from them . |
| 14 | What is often forgotten is that it is us who have to pay to have it cleared up . |
| 15 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 16 | Antonia added : ‘ I think the reason he has resigned is because of the particular allegations which have just occurred . ’ |
| 17 | I think the main reason it was guillotined is that there is a lot of unhappiness among Conservative MPs and among many people in the Conservative Party about the Government 's proposals . |
| 18 | The view to which we have come is that the cause was part of a causal circumstance as conceived . |
| 19 | The evolutionary view is that the only explanation for certain practices being adopted and others discarded is that these practices enable the group which adopts them to survive and gain mastery over others . |
| 20 | And what happens to the little oxygens once they 're discarded is that they do n't go back and join an oxygen molecule . |
| 21 | From a health policy perspective the scenario depicted is that the increasing numbers of older people described earlier will lead to the population of the western industrial nations being infirm , demented and disease ridden with an insatiable demand for health and social care . |
| 22 | The scenario depicted is that decreased hospital stay means that older people ( or indeed patients of any age ) are being sent home with high levels of dependency ; community services/informal carers can not cope and the person has to come back into hospital . |
| 23 | Although I rate El Tel very highly I think one of the reasons he is being picked is that no money will have to change hands . |
| 24 | One problem that remains to be resolved is that the high reflectivity of the glass over many of the paintings , especially in rooms that have lighting from side windows , makes it difficult to view the works . |
| 25 | What we have said what members have already resolved is that they do not believe that it is necessary for him to intervene . |
| 26 | As to whether national governments are still ultimately in charge , the only matter left to be resolved is whether they retain the means to call a halt to the whole process by which law-making is rapidly ceasing to be their responsibility . |
| 27 | Answer guide : The important points that should be contained is that these relate to inflows from normal activities . |
| 28 | The most likely reason that waste pipes have frozen is because you have a dripping tap . |
| 29 | The only way in which such a procedure might be excused is if the societies from which the samples were drawn were homogeneous — an assumption which is hard to sustain . |
| 30 | What we have not previously considered is that a cultural trait may have evolved in the way that it has , simply because it is advantageous to itself . |