Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is right that we have the most generous system in the developed world for supporting students . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's only since we saw the video that we found out whose boot it was . |
| 3 | that 's only cos I use the keys |
| 4 | No , it 's only cos she got a cold . |
| 5 | It 's only if you do an emergency start and shoot off the road at high speed , which vans are n't capable of . |
| 6 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 7 | But she said she does n't need them for Monday because it 's only when she takes the tests she gets in a panic not when she 's she said she can do it in the practice classes . |
| 8 | The front of the machine sports some graceful curves , but it 's only when you take a peek round the back that you get some inkling that this one is different . |
| 9 | I suppose that it 's only when you have the financial means that you get the treatment everyone deserves . |
| 10 | That 's brilliant but that 's only when it makes an E sound . |
| 11 | And it 's only because they have no rights in what they 're negotiating for . |
| 12 | He reckons it 's only because he loves the world and the people he knows that he hates the prevailing ‘ world order ’ . |
| 13 | It 's basically that we feel the group has to be thrown into different circumstances if it 's going to be stimulated , if it 's going to change . |
| 14 | It is only after you have the key words on paper that you can begin to structure them . |
| 15 | So it is only if he admits the strength of the argument from error that he can think he is getting anywhere by refuting PC k . |
| 16 | There is great skill in choosing a site and this must I teach you , though it is long since I made a site . ’ |
| 17 | It 's best if he arranges the transport cos he knows what 's there . |
| 18 | ‘ Roger , ’ Benjamin intervened , ‘ it 's best if you keep a still tongue in your head . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's exactly as I imagined an old family home , ’ Sir Henry said . |
| 20 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee . |
| 21 | It is not that they showed no mercy on the streets of Jericho . |
| 22 | the problem with Jesus ' disciples and the point here is that it 's our problem as well , is not that we lack a big faith . |
| 23 | However , our real weakness is not that we lack the potential , but that we lack the will to act . |
| 24 | In fact what young children demand of us is not that we dilute the work , but that we make it more exciting , more tightly focused . |
| 25 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 26 | ( Smart , 1959 ; Armstrong , 1968 , 1980 ; Lewis , 1966 , 1972 ) What is distinctive about this view is not that it takes the episodes of consciousness to stand in such causal relations . |
| 27 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 28 | It is not that it has a design stamped on it , since once again it is not difficult to find other examples of metalwork decorated in a similar way . |
| 29 | It is not that I have no reason to submit to the moral law and can do as I please ; I am left with no reason even to do as I please . |
| 30 | But , crucially , and this reminds us of Genet , Bersani locates a challenge inseparable from a certain ambivalence : if gay males threaten male heterosexual identity , it is not because they offer a detached parody of that identity , but rather because ‘ from within their nearly mad identification with it , they never cease to feel the appeal of its being violated ’ ( ‘ Is the Rectum a Grave ? ’ , 208 — 9 , his emphasis ) . |