Example sentences of "[pron] is [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in one day I is I thought it was a classic . |
| 2 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 3 | Yours is I did n't realise this . |
| 4 | If I just walk across , you 're sitting there , and just kick someone is it justified ? |
| 5 | If these modifications are called ‘ sensations ’ , and if it is allowed that different substances can be related causally , then on this view something 's looking white to someone is his having certain sensations which are excited in him by what we would ordinarily say was the object he saw to be white . |
| 6 | It is important to see in this last point a clear distinction between the term ‘ source of an instinct ’ , which would be studied by physical scientists , and the Freudian concept of instinct , which is one belonging more to mental life , for it gives rise to inner stimuli in the experience of a person . |
| 7 | A bare licence , which is one granted other than for valuable consideration , may be revoked at any time on the giving of reasonable notice . |
| 8 | He 's got to fulfil all three roles , and the more managerial work going on in the office , the harder it is to find the time to do the work for the clients , which is what produces the fees . |
| 9 | They cause objects to seem to shift in position by only a small amount , which is what objects plausibly can be expected to do in the real world . |
| 10 | After high school in Greece , to which the family returned when Mendoros was in his teens , he looked round for the best place to pursue his obsession — which is what brought him to Perth . |
| 11 | Relief work and voluntary aid continues , which is what brought truck drivers Dick and Ray a long way from their Oxford homes to deliver important equipment to the struggling hospitals and orphanages . |
| 12 | ‘ I wanted a really good box that I could work from , or that someone could work for me — which is what happens nine times out of ten — and then run direct into the amplifier without losing any gain , without gaining any hum and without losing any of the real naturalness of the Fender Strat and the Vox amp . ’ |
| 13 | The happiest occupation for the cornetto is in playing florid divisions on vocal works — chansons , madrigals and the like , to which its ‘ vocal ’ qualities suit it , or in taking the place of the violin in sonatas and canzonas — and not only where it was a declared option , which is what happens in this recording . |
| 14 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 15 | We need an effective independent regulator , not the mafia regulating mafia and saying it 's quite understandable boy , we 'll let you off this time which is what happens now er with the Institute of Chartered Accountants er as a recognised supervisory body er in this er in this particular field . |
| 16 | There is no air or gravity , which is what holds people on to things . |
| 17 | It seems his effort , which is what has taken two weeks ’ — he glanced at Jim Donaldson as he spoke — ‘ to portray himself as the guy trying to help Zack , and all the rest of us here and there as the bad guys making problems , has worked . |
| 18 | If people can get a grade A after one week , which is what has happened , because they do economics , then the system is weak somewhere , yes . |
| 19 | Not all of them provide that ‘ sure touch ’ — that firm but gentle control of the rudder which is what gives the child his or her sense of direction . |
| 20 | ( Burns avoided this move , which is what gives his protest its particular dignity . |
| 21 | Erm a policy statement like roads to the future which is what reminded me of it . |
| 22 | She was always so in control about everything which is what gave her this air of being much older than just twenty-seven . |
| 23 | Which is what worries me . ’ |
| 24 | It costs a lot in human suffering , but saves money , which is what matters now , supposedly . ’ |
| 25 | But if the cheering at the end on Thursday evening — and I mean the cheering from upstairs , which is what matters — is a portent , then Kenneth MacMillan 's Prince Of The Pagodas is a success . |
| 26 | Labour opposes discrimination against lesbian mothers and has Annual Conference policy in support of lesbian mothers ' custody rights , but this is quite separate from winning elections — which is what matters most . |
| 27 | Either way , the beliefs he gets about honey will be true , which is what matters . |
| 28 | This business of planning rehabilitation and planning adoption — fostering with a potential view to adoption simultaneously , which is what seems to happen now — seems to me absolutely dotty ! |
| 29 | And if I can possibly we might do it in a kind of pinky colour which is what seems to have been at least on part of the house . |
| 30 | Which is what inspired Smith and his colleagues to try to insert the gene for HbsAg into vaccinia . |