Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essence of preaching or prayer is that it asks for a response now , not later . |
| 2 | ( In the year 2000 the number of homes with either cable or satellite is expected to be just over 10 million . ) |
| 3 | Credit is given where credit is due . |
| 4 | Credit should be given where credit is due . |
| 5 | Meanwhile I am exploring the edges of a continent where most of its people are clustered and , except in city and suburb , well scattered where settlement is at the mercy of geography , as indeed is the peroipatetic topographer , constantly on the lookout for some assembly of landscape elements that can be turned into pictures and — because of indoctrination by a European culture — pictures of a particular sort . |
| 6 | Nobody knows why , any more than anyone knows why amphibians are disappearing , dolphins are dying or coral is turning white . |
| 7 | Clubs and organisations attracting this group are targeted where use is made of the Scottish Road Safety Campaign leaflet ‘ The Older Road User ’ to best effect . |
| 8 | Forward contracts are relatively easy to arrange , although the exporter is committed to supplying the currency agreed to the bank even if the export deal is cancelled or payment is not received within the forward contract period . |
| 9 | Denying that conflict is an a priori structure actualized in historical struggle , we have seen that Sartre does explain , through the category of the ‘ practico-inert ’ ( determining material conditions which have themselves been created by previous praxis ) , how individuals or classes in conflict produce a historical movement to which they are then subject . |
| 10 | The President of the National Coal Association has rejected the latest government charges , denying that tampering is routine in large numbers of mines . |
| 11 | Both these forms of support suggest that video is a good medium for extended listening to the foreign language . |
| 12 | Reports from northern Somalia suggest that instability is , once again , growing and clan divisions widening . |
| 13 | The theories in psychology which appear to bear most directly on this possibility are those which suggest that memory is based on schemas . |
| 14 | The programme was designed to test the usefulness of the method in surface and mine environments and in drill cores.First results suggest that ammonium is a more efficient indicator of proximity to epithermal island-arc mineralisation than other commonly used lithogeochemical indicators . |
| 15 | Our results also suggest that awareness is not enough to change behaviour . |
| 16 | Swindon police would like to see a day when just a handful of officers turn out on match day , but their undercover operations suggest that day is a long way away . |
| 17 | The first part of our proposal , therefore , is that information in the mental model is used rather indiscriminately as part of the context for the interpretation of the current clause — even when linguistic considerations suggest that discrimination is in order . |
| 18 | Studies of students taking part in seminars suggest that posture is also used to indicate a desire to enter the discussion . |
| 19 | It is therefore intriguing that our in situ hybridization analyses strongly suggest that pou[c] is ubiquitously expressed during embryonic development although the highest level of expression is seen in the CNS . |
| 20 | Preliminary reports suggest that cyclosporin is effective treatment for Crohn 's disease and this has been confirmed in a controlled trial . |
| 21 | Other studies suggest that cyclosporin is of therapeutic value in ulcerative colitis , but there have been no controlled trials . |
| 22 | These results suggest that endosonography is better than endoscopic biopsy specimens and computed tomography in assessing the response of oesophageal carcinoma to non-surgical treatment . |
| 23 | Our preliminary results suggest that endosonography is better than computed tomography in the evaluation of tumour infiltration in these patients . |
| 24 | These results suggest that medication is often prescribed without clinical examination and probably without a diagnosis being made . |
| 25 | Opinion polls suggest that Congress is just ahead of the BJP , but allegations of corruption , nepotism and incompetence in the Rao government are growing . |
| 26 | They suggest that anti-formalism is unlikely to survive . |
| 27 | Our results suggest that endometriosis is less of a problem during pregnancy and the subsequent four years than it is at other times , although the finding was not significant . |
| 28 | We suggest that endometriosis is suppressed during current and recent pill use but that the disease subsequently emerges after the pill is stopped . |
| 29 | We believe that these findings suggest that osmolality is the key determinant of water absorption in both normal and secreting intestine and that it seems to be of particular importance in the secretory state . |
| 30 | They suggest that production is supported by conceptual knowledge and the intention to communicate . |