Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only good news in the act for those who sell houses is that it is not a criminal offence to omit information unless an omission results in a statement being misleading . |
| 2 | The trouble with most biographies and press releases is that they are boring — very , very boring indeed . |
| 3 | Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration . |
| 4 | One of the reasons the New Spirituality has legs is because it is experiential . |
| 5 | A contributory factor in their campaigns to secure charters was that the peasants who grew the vines around the outskirts of the town found arbitrary and unpredictable seigneurial exactions an intolerable burden on a form of agriculture for which long-term planning was essential . |
| 6 | The isotropic luminosity of individual high-velocity components is calculated to be L=0.1–6L and ; , which is comparable to the total luminosity of the most powerful maser source in our Galaxy , W49N , and the total luminosities of redshifted and blueshifted features are and , respectively . |
| 7 | What the charter does promise patients is that they ‘ will be given a fixed appointment time and be seen within 30 minutes or be kept informed of any delay . ’ |
| 8 | One effect of these trading links was that prices of wine in England were directly linked with the state of the war in South-west France . |
| 9 | Likely contributing factors are that people fail to recognise , and to compensate for insidious deterioration of vision , hearing and decision speed as they age . |
| 10 | The reason I started writing tunes was because I could n't find tunes that set up the kind of guitar playing I wanted to do as an improviser . |
| 11 | My estimates of operating costs are as follows : |
| 12 | Reorganise and move towards pay and file with confidence or let things be and risk losing clients . |
| 13 | But one of the earlier findings which began to cause problems was that the sound of the letters , as well as the features , determined whether or not they were confused so B and D , for example , sound similar therefore they tended to be confused . |
| 14 | The point about picking currants was that there was absolutely no temptation to eat the crop . |
| 15 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |
| 16 | What upset charities is that when it was made law here , the Department of Trade and Industry decided to make the ruling stricter and to include second-hand toys . |
| 17 | One of the worries about the limit on inpatient waiting times was that instead of tackling long waiting it would merely shift delays and patients would end up waiting longer for outpatient consultations . |
| 18 | And the reason so many stagewise guitarists tend to prefer valves is because of their ability to follow , in a particularly human way , the dynamics of the music being fed into them . |
| 19 | A frequent complaint from companies using distributors is that , because they are independent businesses acting independently , they can decide the final selling price to the customer . |
| 20 | Control tracks are as described for left panel except that the transgenic brain ( TgB ) RNA positive control is derived from transgenic line 13 carrying the -300bp construct ( see left panel ) . |
| 21 | The problem facing surgeons is that they do n't have the time to devote to research . |
| 22 | The most obvious definition for labouring poets is that it includes all those whose support normally depended on manual work , either their own or that of their families . |
| 23 | The disadvantage of DOS based programs is that each has its unique way of dealing with the word-processing process and , therefore , different commands for each must be learnt . |
| 24 | What Engels stresses is that women were not inferior . |
| 25 | Over the years , I have seen so many private gardens and advised so many gardeners on labour-saving tools and equipment , and what comes through loud and clear is that the biggest problem facing gardeners is that they are caught in the trap between growing all they would like to grow , doing all they want to do and having the lime to do it . |
| 26 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 27 | The service conception establishes that the point of having authorities is that they are better at complying with the dependent reasons . |
| 28 | The important thing to bear in mind when cutting cornices is that the veiling is represented by the horizontal table . |
| 29 | The assumptions lying behind such targeted programmes are that the ‘ problem ’ is a bounded one , concerned with ‘ pockets of poverty or deprivation ’ , restricted areas of decay , which can be remedied through relatively limited expenditure and precise targeting of funds and activities to ‘ special ’ , different , difficult problems , limited problems which remain to be rooted out , while the rest of the system is assumed to be functioning well and on course for prosperity and harmony . |
| 30 | What toys birds are when stags roar |