Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So it is definitely possible to distinguish between faith , doubt and unbelief in theory ( to believe is to be in one mind , to disbelieve is to be in another and to doubt is to be in two minds ) . |
| 3 | Because of the way that the two animals stand in relation to one another while grooming is going on , it is these vertical lines that are placed slap in front of their ‘ nearside ’ eyes . |
| 4 | Because their faith tells to rejoice , but circumstances of life can be such that rejoicing is the one thing that they can not do . |
| 5 | All that happened is that the electric field drew some charges to the surface of the dielectric which caused then some additional charges to appear on the surface of the conductor . |
| 6 | ‘ All that happened is that I over-reacted , ’ he said at last , after a very long pause . |
| 7 | What matters more than time is the number of transactions that take place . |
| 8 | Removing those that remain is a fairly drastic step , which you should only embark on if you have good reason to suspect chemical sensitivity . |