Example sentences of "[vb -s] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , however , is surely not a matter for grave concern ( except of course to ardent devotees ) since the precise metaphysical status of the magic shibboleth is of much less interest than the insights which it has inspired . |
| 2 | His story as it unfolds is at times scarcely credible when we think back to the way things were in Frome in the 1790s . |
| 3 | Although any one assignment which the company has is of short duration , the company itself continues in being , following up that assignment by another . |
| 4 | The speed it has is for motorway shunting . |
| 5 | The subjectivity she has is as a subject who desires to be object-a subject who wants only to satisfy the wants of the Master . |
| 6 | Wilko has nt a problem with buying players … the only problem he has is with selling players too cheap . |
| 7 | Others say that the resemblance one notices is between sensations , and that what one means when one says something is white is that a sensation one has on looking at it resembles a sensation one has had before and to which one gave the name ‘ sensation of white ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Responsibility is accepted in the preparation of this report for the skill and diligence reasonably to be expected of a competent surveyor and valuer but the information it contains is for the confidential information only of the clients for whom it is prepared and of any building society , bank or other lender to whom written application for a mortgage advance has been made or will be made within 28 days after the date of this report . |
| 9 | Although his letter does not deny that Chlothild had a part to play in Clovis 's conversion , nor that the king decided to accept baptism during a battle against the Alamans , in some respects the information it contains is at odds with Gregory 's account and , therefore , with the traditional interpretation of events . |
| 10 | What he writes is of interest because it shows his attitude to his illness , and to the importance of relieving the pressures of his illness . |
| 11 | Selection between factory and user presets is via the User/Preset button which illuminates the attendant LED . |
| 12 | The last thing he wants is to be dubbed ‘ Saint James ’ . |
| 13 | The last thing the retailer wants is to be left with a lot of stock that does n't sell . |
| 14 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 15 | If all he wants is to hitchhikers does n't he ? |
| 16 | Essentially , what she wants is for Berowne to discover what is serious in life , and to stop fooling all the time . |
| 17 | All He wants is for you to be truly sorry . |
| 18 | I think that what she really wants is for words to be more like numbers . |
| 19 | All he wants is for the RAF to make sure it does n't happen again . |
| 20 | He says all he wants is for the lies to stop . |
| 21 | ‘ All it needs is for a journalist to go down to Abbotsfield . ’ |
| 22 | And Carol and Ann are white and all it needs is for one of them to lead the other , censoring friendship , arousing hostility . |
| 23 | Tranmere Rovers verses Swindon Town.Now all it needs is for the Swindon players to hold their nerve and hold on to their two goal advantage . |
| 24 | All it needs is to be made to fit . |
| 25 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |
| 26 | Meanwhile former West Indies captain Sir Garfield Sobers is to be the subject of a solo painting . |
| 27 | Cos what normally happens is with tetanus , that the reason it kills you is that you stop breathing because your muscles that work your lungs , the diaphragm , the intercostal muscles between the ribs , those seize up and you just stop breathing . |
| 28 | What happens is of course , you 're so , very often socialised into behaving like this , ask yourself if your an A type , are your parents A types ? |
| 29 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 30 | Okay so here comes the moon it 's coming in the way of the sun coming in the way of the sun and what happens is in fact when the moon eclipses the sun |