Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [conj] [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why we 've stopped you is that there 's no disc on your windscreen . |
| 2 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 3 | Now all I 'm suggesting to him is that there is here apparently a requirement laid down by the treaty which ca n't be aggregated by any one individual member state which could actually only be enforced by reference to a court of justice and what I 'd like to ask is in the light of this very deep seated concern by the French about Strasbourg er and the European parliament building and the knowledge that this is of such importance to the er of er voting and of representation in the community of the European elections . |
| 4 | It is that there is an obligation to go to Catholic school … |
| 5 | It is that there is no community to appeal to ; for the phenomenon itself is the evidence that there is more than one community , or a divided community . |
| 6 | It is not that she does not know what to say , it is that there is not enough time to say all she knows . |
| 7 | Her theory is that the more that control is personalised , the more likely it is that there will be friction between management and the workforce , but that continuous-process plants , because they are so highly automated , have unified impersonal control systems which minimise conflict and lead to more satisfying working conditions . |
| 8 | The second strong PR option would be to take the opposite line , to say how outrageous it is that there is all this terrible auditing going on , and to promise painful retribution for the wrongdoers . |
| 9 | That may be a ‘ price worth paying ’ to relieve recession , but if economics tells us anything it is that there is no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 10 | If there is any criticism of this super volume it is that there are not enough explanatory captions . |
| 11 | It is that there is more spoken dialogue . |
| 12 | The way I would see it is that there is a need for a broad consensus between government , IDB , LEDU , DED and all the various government agencies and community groups , economists and experts and the people on the ground themselves , because I do n't think the government has it within their power to solve the problem and I do n't think experts have it within their power to solve the problem . |
| 13 | Sometimes I look at my father and I wonder what 's going on in his mind , why it is that there 's so much hatred , so much poison inside him . |
| 14 | The larger the employer , the less likely it is that there will be an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 15 | Why d why do you think why do you think it is that there was n't that motivation ? |
| 16 | It is that there are no unambiguous criteria with which to judge the contribution that different administrative activities make to some final goal or set of values . |
| 17 | Rather , it is that there exist people willing to pay prices lower than Pm , but which are in excess of the marginal costs of providing additional units . |
| 18 | However , if there is anything clear in the muddied waters of postmodernism , it is that there is no such thing as " raw " data . |
| 19 | Mr Goldring added : ‘ What is really significant in this case is not what happened to each child individually , it is that there were so many collapses . ’ |
| 20 | And the bit about it is that there may well be other small organisations that might , erm be better , erm I mean , have , might benefit people more in Oxford city , or in Oxfordshire , are n't getting in because |
| 21 | The big question mark over it is whether there is the political will in Whitehall to keep Mr Patten 's pledge to provide the resources to police the environment . |
| 22 | me see what it is and there 's a chance it 's actually down |
| 23 | Right , I think I know what it is and there 's a forest of hands erm they know what it is . |
| 24 | That 's right , there it is and there 's the other one . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State has given nothing today but bland generalities , and the situation will continue as it is until there is a change of Government policy . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is because there is no silent majority , no single entity which is being attacked by a hostile element , that this form is increasing . |
| 27 | If this explanation is simplistic , it is because there is little point in saying more about Minamata now that the classic written account of the tragedy is available in English . |
| 28 | The larvae of ichneumid wasps are parasitic on the developmental stages of insects or spiders , which egg laying females locate by searching narrowly circumscribed micro-habitats ; they are as much niche-specific as host-specific , and it is because there is such a range of niches in a garden that there are so many kinds of adult wasps . |
| 29 | It is because there is so much potential in individuals that even the largest degree of stretch that we can put on them still leaves plenty more capacity , provided it is applied gradually , like stretching elastic ; and I believe this is a prime feature of an organization which utilizes the skills of its people . |
| 30 | What does frighten me is that there may not be sufficient time left to me to do as you suggest . |