Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |
| 2 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 3 | The Bulgarians sombrely suggest that she is a dead mother looking for her own baby , while the Spanish say she is the GHOST of an aunt or grandmother , looking to make a gift to her descendants . |
| 4 | And with so many publishers completing so many courses in 1993 , it will be very interesting to see what is published for whom next year , and whether it is the market or the applied linguist who call the shots . |
| 5 | Some declare it is caused by diet ; others are convinced it is a motility disorder or due to altered perception , a psychological disorder , a psychophysiological phenomenon , or even abnormal illness behaviour . |
| 6 | The manufacturers of these products recognise this suggesting it is nevertheless possible to reduce such odours to an acceptable level without neutralising them completely . |
| 7 | SCO is currently looking at ways of raising more capital — that it may go public to find it is no secret . |
| 8 | Secondly , the World Church erm is your agenda in the sense that you might be interested to know there is a erm a video now available , er which introduces the work of CWM for the churches . |
| 9 | Some say she is robed in blue , others in yellow and red . |
| 10 | Some say it is because no boat people have been returned home against their will since December 1989 . |
| 11 | Some say it is good for the Prime Minister to mix with the crowd and others that for a Prime Minister it is less than dignified . |
| 12 | Some say it is 0.5 microgram per cubic metre . |
| 13 | Some say it is an irresponsible attitude but is n't it more irresponsible to use a vote just because the law commands it ? |
| 14 | Balsa wood can also be smoked after it has been broken into little pieces , but some say it is even less rewarding than banana skins . |
| 15 | Some say it is the form assumed by the GHOST of a girl disappointed in love , who fruitlessly searches for her sweetheart , a fisherman who was drowned . |
| 16 | Some say it is just the Asian way . |
| 17 | A difficult route to grade , and some say it is nearer E3 than E2 . |
| 18 | Some say it is they who are bringing about these times that are upon us . |
| 19 | Some say he is now no more than mayor of Mogadishu , retaining only the loyalty of his own Marehan clan and other Darode tribes . |
| 20 | Some say he is , but last time he went to the abbey . ’ |
| 21 | The Charismatics — part of this evangelical upsurge — feel they have been blessed with the direct gifts of the holy spirit , and one of the main ways in which this manifests itself is speaking in tongues . |
| 22 | Again this assumes there is no contractual means , for example a two-part tariff , by which to enable the intending integrator to obtain additional units at or near marginal cost . |
| 23 | Where this occurs it is likely that there will be a lack of consensus among the implementers , too . |
| 24 | Where this occurs there is no implication of a reduction on the range or standard of services offered . |
| 25 | It is unclear just when this happens one is unlikely to be able to observe it in a casual experiment at the kitchen sink — but Fig. 24.7 shows observations made by varying the pressure behind a suitably shaped nozzle . |
| 26 | It takes four hydrogen nuclei to make one nucleus of helium , and each time this happens there is a slight release of energy and a slight loss of mass . |
| 27 | When this happens it is time to celebrate and consider all the various offers raining in from the major labels . |
| 28 | Trained dog observers tell me that when this happens it is equivalent to rapid eye movement in human beings and the animal is dreaming . |
| 29 | When this happens it is more likely that the two strands mix indifferently . |
| 30 | Whenever this happens it is a sad waste of the stimulus which projects can engender . |