Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I would say is that we endeavour to counteract that on the reasons that I 've stated , by virtue of the fact that we invite them to read the policy . |
| 2 | For what it 's worth , my opinion in property , and my opinion now , is that we need to retain if we can , a viable unit for County Farms . |
| 3 | Many feminists , she says , read the bible to reject : ‘ My suggestion is that we re-read to understand and to appropriate . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps one of the reasons why we are faced with the menace of increasing savagery among a minority of the young is that they fail to realise that TV is not a ‘ window on the world ’ , but a structure of small , angled , mirrors reflecting different viewpoints . |
| 5 | ‘ The reason the auditors will give us trouble , Mike , is that they have to certify that our accounts give a true and fair account of the financial state of the business . |
| 6 | Perhaps all one can really say about layout , in this sense , is that you have to remember that in Europe and America we read from left to right and top to bottom , in that order . |
| 7 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |
| 8 | The problem with disengagement theory is that it fails to ask whether such observable characteristics of older people are attributable , at least in part , to cultural expectations . |
| 9 | The main thing is that it needs to look like you ! |
| 10 | But the main thing you 've got to think about is if you start to overtake and the cyclist who may be wearing his er stereophonic Walkman , erm Beethoven 's Fifth or some headbanging music going on his Is he aware of you around ? |
| 11 | It is because we need to understand that we have asked you to come here tonight . |
| 12 | So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist . |
| 13 | The reason I am suggesting that the church of Christ lives in this subcultural world is because I want to insist that God 's spiritual family , as well as the human family , has also been radically altered by modernity . |
| 14 | The image of royalty gives us an idea just how powerful and proud the train is as it seems to influence and belittle all the things around it . |