Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The advantage of this is that it enables us to start focusing on content . |
| 3 | One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames . |
| 4 | I think this is because we have our own distinct identity and proper base . |
| 5 | This is because they share their bodies with algae and have to bring the algae to the surface at low tides so that they can manufacture food . |
| 6 | I believe that this is because they do everything so well that they do not get excessive pitching movements in their training stall recoveries . |
| 7 | To some extent , this is because it enables us to indulge in a form of mental shorthand which is convenient , if unimaginative , for communicating with others . |
| 8 | This is because it reminded me of the type of frame one might put around a tapestry or sampler , and I feel this symmetrical design is somewhat reminiscent of sampler work and needlework in general . |
| 9 | Few things seem to have been left out , but this is because he based his work squarely on such useful volumes as Michael Darby 's The Islamic Perspective and A. St Clair 's The Image of the Turk in Europe , and a large number of other texts besides . |
| 10 | This is because he broke his watch in the process and handed the busted bits to photographer Pennie Smith . |
| 11 | ‘ If this is because you feel you 're only being asked out of politeness … |
| 12 | So one reason [ for reviewing consents ] is it does n't make any difference to the river system ; another is that it means we 're not prepared to follow the thing through on a legal basis . |
| 13 | Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they 're somehow there as a result of their own action , so we 'll only accept the rule of erm our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again , we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic policy democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule . |
| 14 | The second is that it allows you to make a fast flank attack on the end of the enemy 's line with the possibility of rolling along it and taking lots of his troops in the flanks . |
| 15 | The only thing that 's ever wrong with saying something you believe to be false is that you do it in order to mislead someone whom you think will believe what you say . |
| 16 | I 'm going to see to it that my sending-off is as I want it . |
| 17 | ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’ |
| 18 | The most obvious is that it helps you prepare your position so that it is based on facts rather than speculation or wishful thinking . |
| 19 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 20 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 21 | For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time . |
| 22 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 23 | What 's divide actually means in twos is that you share it |
| 24 | A far less common problem but one which is much more dramatic is if you put your weight too far forward . |
| 25 | It seems that more significant than whether a parent tells you you are beautiful is whether they give you the message that you are ‘ good enough ’ , in Deborah 's words . |
| 26 | the important is that he knows what you 're on and why you 're on it , and you can tell him that . |
| 27 | The first is that it says nothing about W-cells . |
| 28 | The first is that you leave your opponent with a structure of one in one line , two in the second line and three in the third . |
| 29 | The first is that I felt my battle to be with authority , whether in the form of teachers , matrons , parents , or even nature itself . |
| 30 | And the reason for that is that we ask you to do three things when you get in front of the advertiser having got his commitment . |