Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [conj] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and then to contrast this you 've got like the feminist view er well it 's a just reconstruct a lot of these ideas instead of saying that women 's talk was diffident they said it was more considerate , and so the idea that quite often A lot of the features that are in this conversation are n't because women want to be deferential to the men they 're talking to , it 's that they actually want to show some consideration to the turn-taking or the conversational style that 's going on . |
| 2 | It 's not that they passively resist you , it 's that they actively sabotage you , because the change is so graphic . |
| 3 | It 's not that the TV folk like to be topical , it 's because they rarely have the nous to come up with anything original . |
| 4 | It 's because they never miss a food or drink trick . |
| 5 | Anyone familiar with five- and six-year-olds would be puzzled to learn that they do not ask questions when they do not understand something : if five-year-olds have a failing it is that they never stop asking questions ! |
| 6 | I mean it is wrong and I do n't think people realize just how wrong it is until they really stop and think about it . |
| 7 | Every election , some people discover that they are unregistered , and in most cases it is because they either forgot to fill in the form , or they moved in too late in the year to qualify . |
| 8 | In part it is because they too have unknowingly taken in the prevailing stereotypes . |
| 9 | Maybe one of the reasons we all love them is because they subtly reinforce the status quo . |