Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] the [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an earlier Chapter I argued that the canon is ‘ bursting ’ , because of the advent of other anglophone literatures , and the increasing interest in contemporary writing . |
| 2 | Thank you and as far as the jaguar 's concerned I noted that the jaguar is not being phased out now until two thousand and four , that being a three year further delay . |
| 3 | Smiling , Luce remarked , ‘ I noticed that the panelling is carved with the signs of the zodiac . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I got a premonition of what the system is really like as soon as I discovered that the guide is divided into modules , ’ said Chapanis . |
| 5 | I learned that the pen is mightier than the brush . |
| 6 | But as I said before the game is not a purely mathematical one ; it is a mixture of physics and mathematics , a combination of intuition and technique . |
| 7 | I said because the fact is |
| 8 | Lisa Rossi of the Pittsburgh Children 's Hospital said : ‘ It was a lovely film which showed that the surgery is no longer experimental . |
| 9 | The fundamental opposition which may erupt between economy and society was noted by Simmel , who observed that the merchant is identified with the relative autonomy and abstraction of flexible exchange and is therefore often , as ‘ stranger ’ , held in an ambiguous and partially anomalous relation to the host society ( e.g. Simmel 1950 : 402–8 ) . |
| 10 | Right , you said that the reason is , there 's lack of information so , that 's why people migrate , because they do n't realize they 're not going to get a job . |
| 11 | I said at the time that reports are ALWAYS one sided when the score is 3–0 or 4–0 , this coupled with what I actually heard on radio 5 and what Ive seen of the goals is that Leeds had plenty of the ball , just found it hard to break a 6,7,8 man defence , and norwich looked dangerous on the counter attack . |
| 12 | We discovered that the temple is surrounded by durian trees , the fruit of which ripens and ferments through June and July . |
| 13 | The deliberations irritated both groups a little because they realised that the gap is growing between those who run computers and those who do n't . |
| 14 | In 1983 , they discovered that the Sun is in a void which contains very little neutral gas ( Astrophysical Journal ( Letters ) , vol 271 , p L59 ) . |
| 15 | As well as discussing the dog fouling issue they heard that the federation is planning to compile a book called In Living Memory — based on memories of members from all over Suffolk . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne , North ( Mr. Henderson ) and the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey ( Mr. Hughes ) were dead right when they said that the Bill is a lost opportunity . |
| 17 | It has been said that an order of mandamus ought not to he made if the respondent is doing all it reasonably can to remedy its breach of duty . |
| 18 | Although he admitted that the issue is ‘ far from the most pressing matter facing the nation ’ , its inclusion in the campaign speech appeared to be designed to draw public attention away from Australia 's economic problems . |
| 19 | When they hear it rumoured that the hotel is to be sold off for development they turn to crime to finance their own take-over bid … = From the writers of Cabaret , Chicago and New York , New York , this show is a triumphant affirmation of life and vitality with a full Broadway score of wit , understanding and humour . |
| 20 | This is the context in which to place Foucault 's own recognition after Derrida 's critique that he could no longer postulate madness or the other as outside , after which he maintained that the other is also always inside ; he formulates the structures of power in exactly the same way , so that the forces of domination and resistance are caught up , sometimes indistinguishably , within each other . |
| 21 | First , because the sponsors of the bureau 's expenditure are likely to appreciate the benefits of extra expenditure without responsibility for the costs , and second , because ‘ advocacy of spending programs tends to he concentrated and the opposition is diffused ’ . |
| 22 | It helped that the hippocampus is very easy to work on . |
| 23 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 24 | He added that the group is well-placed to make acquisitions . |
| 25 | Mr Bangemann delivered a damning speech in Berlin in which he declared that the treaty is just a staging post on the road to a European superstate . |
| 26 | One of them would not mind sacrificing himself if he thought that the other is of more use to humanity , but sees no evidence of it . |
| 27 | He insisted that the world is run by powerful but sick people who control others because they have failed to eroticize their experience in a harmless way . |
| 28 | He stressed that the rebuilding is not for cosmetic reasons , in many cases the original boathouses were built to house a pulling boat whose launching power was probably munching grass in a nearby field . |
| 29 | It emerged that the Government is being forced to alter arrangements for protecting security of supply and impose fines on distribution companies that allow power cuts . |
| 30 | It said that the move is not expected to impact the 1,100 employees that Sun has in the state . |