Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone for whom it really is of no concern whether others enjoy or suffer is schizophrenic ; he is no egoist , but one whose imaginary viewpoints are disconnected from the real people around him . |
| 2 | Plenty of other modern animals make their living in conditions where seeing is difficult or impossible . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the right to life and to not being molested or attacked is fundamental . |
| 4 | Auden was rightly suspicious of his own rhetoric ; but to say that the line We must love one another or die is untrue because we die anyway ( or because those who do not love do not instantly expire ) is to take a narrow or forgetful view . |
| 5 | Proceedings in the Chamber are fully recorded so that everything that is said or done is available for the broadcasters to use in their programmes . |
| 6 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 7 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 8 | I 'm not going to attempt to pour cold water on it , for any plaudits we get here from the South where racing is concerned should be gratefully received , but I noticed that the award was based on the votes of a panel of members of the Racing Club of Ireland and ‘ leading racing writers ’ . |
| 9 | Fecundity is determined by the ovulation rate ; this can also be low where feeding is poor but is also lower in young and old females , and is genetically influenced too — so always try to breed from twins or triplets . |
| 10 | Even in ideal cereal-growing country the sale of grain in the open market for milling or feeding is unlikely to be worthwhile for a smallholder who could not produce enough to compete on an adequate scale . |
| 11 | The words which do not appear in other lists fall into several important groups : signs relevant to deaf culture , signs which might be subject to borrowing by languages in contact , signs where compounding is likely to occur , number and colour terms . |
| 12 | When conflict is resolved or coping is successful : |
| 13 | The question of widening or deepening is relevant not only to membership of the Community , but also to the powers of the Community . |
| 14 | An SFA member must apply appropriate expertise and be able to show that it believes on reasonable grounds that an advertisement that it issues or approves is fair and not misleading . |
| 15 | The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ . |
| 16 | Erm , all quizzes have rules , there 's basically just one rule , that anything I say or do is right , but , and that 's the rules . |
| 17 | Discretion is the better part of valour , or forewarned is forearmed : Associated Press , writing up IBM Corp 's layoffs in New York State , says ‘ Company officials said there was no violence or threats at the plants , although a Kingston sporting goods store that sells guns closed up shop Tuesday morning . ’ |
| 18 | Beyond this , the knowledge of the ways in which initially neutral cues are treated as potentially relevant or ignored is growing , and suggests once again that the rules for learning can be influenced by the nature of prior experience ( e.g. Dickinson , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | These methods allow plants to spread in marginal regions where seeding is uncertain . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm still a bit of novice where scrummaging is concerned . |
| 21 | In this case , even if one reinforces the claim by supposing that littering is illegal , the answer must be No . |
| 22 | Certainly it is in the private sector , where the only bribe that counts is low prices , where fierce competition and price wars have been wreaking havoc among Europe 's surviving computer makers . |
| 23 | Blake 's ‘ everything that lives is holy ’ was now a gospel confined to churches in the care of men like his father . |
| 24 | Each different particle that put is able to combine with must have a separate entry . ) |
| 25 | Similarly , although anything that exists is particular and individual , we can have general ideas . |
| 26 | The Dutch love music and anything that swings is sure to meet with their approval . |
| 27 | This helps landlords who let without opting and later realise that opting is advisable . |
| 28 | So it 's sometime useful to think of it that way round , Newton 's third law , rather than force is mass times acceleration , you 're interested in the effect , now what did we get for this , what sort of acceleration do we get . |
| 29 | You know that Sikes is dead and Monks has confessed . |
| 30 | The reason that knowing is different from guessing or dreaming is that knowledge implies an unspoken submission to what is real or thought to be real . |