Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be that they lead the opinions of a group of three people , ten people or thirty , but those opinion-makers are the key . |
| 2 | Sir Denis he may be but I fancy the measures being poured in the big rooms have been even more liberal ( small ‘ l ’ , of course ) than before . |
| 3 | It will only be when you see the results of your actions that you realize how effective they have been . |
| 4 | Has my right honourable friend had an opportunity to see the report from three I s , investors in industry , in which they have surveyed five hundred of the companies in which they invest and the confidence factor of those businesses is higher now than it 's ever been since they started the surveys in nineteen eighty eight . |
| 5 | Now , I have put down reports about the finance committee er as it were but I think the responses from the churches and districts sort of calculator will be there , we think that it would seem as though we should only offer the same amount as last year . |
| 6 | But if as a Westerner you can not read the abacus , or the scales , it is bad luck , because the assumption is that everyone shares the skills that enable them to do this . |
| 7 | Perhaps some component of Pascal 's restless questioning was due to his displacement through recurrent ill-health , but what makes his questionings still worth reading , is that they confront the foundations of our existence and that despite the fact that he is sometimes seen merely as a Catholic apologist . |
| 8 | From the water companies ' point of view , the advantage of indirect systems is that they reduce the effects on the mains of heavy demand ( first thing in the morning , for example ) and that they keep most of the householder 's water system separate from the mains supply . |
| 9 | Their main benefit is that they allow the applications software to be independent of the physical printing device as opposed to the normal case where specific routines have to be written for each device . |
| 10 | The final way in which social routines may provide support for language is that they create the conditions whereby the child is motivated to speak . |
| 11 | However , the reality for young people whom we represent in the nineteen nineties is that they face the prospects of having to survive in a declining British economy . |
| 12 | As can be seen from the above it is possible to give questions a greater focus of purpose by considering what process it is that you wish the pupils to go through . |
| 13 | His view of this " delirious " material ( note the etymology of délire ) is that it breaks the rules of language ( grammar , syntax , semantic cohesion ) but that it does not mean nothing . |
| 14 | The second major respect in which the assertion of the social rights of citizens has become more important is that it expresses the claims of very diverse groups in society to equal treatment , and at the same time broadens considerably the range of what are to be regarded as social rights . |
| 15 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 16 | If I have any criticisms of this section it is that it underestimates the difficulties of writing software and ignores the influence the historical development of computing has on the acceptance of new ideas ( what Seymour Papert calls the QWERTY phenomenon ) . |
| 17 | The danger of the approach is that it allows the courts to intervene even where Parliament intended the tribunal 's decision to be final . |
| 18 | The justification of the partnership approach is that it encourages the notions of quality and excellence , whilst providing a framework within which a wide range of activities can be given a sense of coherence and wholeness . |
| 19 | That is , the justification for the enactment of an advance notice requirement is that it forces the organisers to discuss with the police arrangements for the conduct of the procession which enable the event to be held in such a way as to minimise the risks of disorder . |
| 20 | The benefit of this feeding lifestyle is that it avoids the dangers of active killing of prey . |
| 21 | The effect of making them arrestable is that it gives the police certain powers of entry and search under section 17 and 18 while investigating the offences in question . |
| 22 | ‘ The meaning of a profession ’ , wrote that great Christian socialist R. H. Tawney , ‘ is that it makes the traitors the exception , not , as they tend to be in industry , the rule . ’ |
| 23 | Another theory is that it prevents the leaves from mistaking strong moonlight for the dawn of another day . |
| 24 | For our present purposes , however , the important feature of the model is that it develops the implications of the widely accepted notion that even the simplest stimulus will consist of a set ( probably a large number ) of elements and that only some of these will be sampled ( will activate their central representations ) on a given exposure ( cf. |
| 25 | From the point of view of this paper , an important aspect of the model is that it shows the costs that can be imposed ( in the form of probable price wars ) when firms ' outputs are unknown to each other and demand is stochastic . |
| 26 | The fallacy in this argument , and in other similar versions , is that it confuses the functions of crime with the functions of social control . |
| 27 | The point about imported material is that it contains the values of the society where it was made and , so , through modern techniques of diffusion , all social levels of a Third World society are exposed to the product of a small group of people in the industrialised world . |
| 28 | ‘ The letter is personally addressed to Gerry Adams so it is up to him to reply to it , but the party 's position is that it highlights the MPs ' total lack of understanding about the situation here and our position in it , ’ he said . |
| 29 | What is interesting about Mark , however , is that he rejects the values of the physics department in their entirety , as well as what he perceives as the values of academic life generally . |
| 30 | The unspoken allegation against Mr Delors is that he sabotaged the talks because of his support for French farmers who oppose any reduction in EC agriculture subsidies . |