Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does your wife do that or does somebody else do that , why not just ask me the question who does the gardening |
| 2 | Well why does n't , ca n't he do something about that or does he |
| 3 | But do you feel somebody wanted you to do that or has somebody just been watching the clock on the revivals and the clock 's ticked round to a point in time now ? |
| 4 | And erm not only er do I think that er she 'll probably be reasonably good with , with finals I 'm absolutely sure that her course reports from , you know , all the places where she 's been will be better than most of the other candidates , you know , because she brings home these , the these reports , you know , and she says it looks alright , you know , beginning of the course Nurse is lacking in this or has not got that or is not , you know , you think mm pretty the end of the course Nurse got the hang of , is very good , has done this , has done that , has supported this and you think mm pretty , well that 's lovely you know but she did n't have the experience during the whatever , she had been given the experience and the end of it brilliant |
| 5 | Have I dreamt this or has Natasha moved from where she was originally ? |
| 6 | Earthquakes , especially the big ones , are caused when two tectonic plates — segments of the earth 's crust that float freely on the molten magma beneath — come into contact with one another and one plate bangs into another or rubs alongside it or dives under it . |
| 7 | Not only is the value element in education crucial , it is also highly problematic and it is this that creates particular problems for curriculum planning . |
| 8 | One other element of this that deserves a brief outline was the adoption in 1925 of a contributory pension scheme to run alongside the non-contributory one . |
| 9 | Taylor called for a ban on the video and said : ‘ Something like this that glorifies cheating brings the game into open disrepute . ’ |
| 10 | In the words of the Robbins Report , ‘ it is this that furnishes the criterion of what institutions of higher education may properly teach ’ . |
| 11 | It is this that allows the NMDA receptor to behave as a molecular coincidence detector . |
| 12 | It is this that bears the most striking contrast to the equivalent moments in Romeo and Juliet . |
| 13 | I get a tremendous kick from the creative aspect of life , and I think it is this that keeps me so well and full of vitality . ’ |
| 14 | It is only that I live in Dresden and that I fight like this that keeps me sane . |
| 15 | It is this that turns a get-away-from-it-all holiday into a get-away-from-only-a-bit-of-it one . |
| 16 | It is this that prompts a deep feeling of compassion for the sub-human world and for all our fellow men . |
| 17 | And it is this that connects to our specific concerns with the instinctive bases of human behaviour . |
| 18 | Even if we had no standard semantics to characterise , it would still be necessary to investigate the structure of the classes of inter-transformable programs , because it is only this that reveals the true power of a set of laws . |
| 19 | Art is at least as important as Politics , whether in Peace or war , and it is Pound 's intransigent conviction of this that brings out the philistine in others beside Peter Robinson . |
| 20 | If , for instance , the therapist believes that the client 's marital problems are undermining their confidence and feelings of security , and it is this that prevents the client from achieving other tasks , then the therapist 's endeavours should be aimed at this problem first . |
| 21 | No place to hide , and this that 's just begun |
| 22 | In the age of Winkelmann and Weimar , therefore , the sense of purpose depends on there being a common cause to guide the nation 's culture ; and it is this that wanes . |
| 23 | But mothers are wonderful , and it 's something like this that makes you realize it . ’ |
| 24 | Like all good recording artists , McGegan realises that to make a successful recording you must be prepared to exaggerate , and it is this that makes Floridante a success . |
| 25 | It holds the blade at exactly the right angle to achieve optimum sharpness , and it 's this that makes the sharpener so quick and easy to use . |
| 26 | The multiplicity of readings that the law permits is not its weak-ness but its strength , for it is this that makes room for different voices … . ’ |
| 27 | It is this that makes us more advanced . |
| 28 | ( This would be in sequence with another simple process for managing the final values of unc Note that no unc can start up until unc has terminated : it is this that makes the transformation so general , but it also makes the resulting parallel program useless as it stands . |
| 29 | It is precisely this that makes me very suspicious of searching for some supposed rational parliamentary intention outside the language in which a draftsman who is known to be rational has chosen to express it . |
| 30 | It is this that has made some Americans say that , if Iraq agreed to withdraw from Kuwait , it must abandon its tanks and other heavy equipment . |