Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , to illustrate the difference between sort of causation , one of my favourites is if you take the number of new born babies in Holland and you take the number of storks , they 're found to significantly correlate . |
| 2 | One of my arguments is that the mechanical relations of work can bring about this withdrawal . |
| 3 | The one thing I do ask all my patients is that they try not to question whether or not the regression is real during the course of the session itself . |
| 4 | They are yet to be involved in the testing process : ‘ My real concern for my children is that they have n't gone through the tests for 14-year-olds yet , ’ he says . |
| 5 | but erm , sorry the reason I 'm raising my eyebrows is that the people who would come to live in the new settlement if it was to happen , are people who would otherwise have to live somewhere else in in the county |
| 6 | While Special Branch sent along junior officers to transcribe proceedings at NL meetings in 1939 , the most important information we have on its activities is that procured by an intelligence agent working for the Board of Deputies of British Jews . |
| 7 | The highest praise for its plans is that they are , in some areas , less bad than they might have been . |
| 8 | What the dumb f**ks should get into their heads is that although we are Leeds fans we are also ( on the whole ) human . |
| 9 | Over at Ibrox , the news for their fans is that the long injury list is continuing to shorten . |
| 10 | One strange thing about her books is that they nearly all tend to be set a little bit back in the past , so that the position of the women that she is describing and the society in which she is describing them is n't quite what 's actually going on a the time she 's writing . |
| 11 | One of its tenets is that only well educated and professionally trained individuals have the competence to work with the mass media . |
| 12 | The only potential problem with friends being eager to let you pick bits and pieces from their gardens is that often they may not grow anything that is suitable for pressing . |
| 13 | The agreed version of their origins is that they were lepers or the descendants of lepers , whom no local community would accept as neighbours . |
| 14 | Given this , it is impossible to avoid the idea that another part of the difference between the causal items and their effects is that the causal items exist at a time when their effects do not . |
| 15 | One of their advantages is that they are an early potato which comes to maturity in autumn . |
| 16 | One of the major stumbling blocks in the criminal prosecution of corporations and their officials is that costs to the state become excessive as the case is stretched out for endless months and sometimes years . |
| 17 | One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp . |
| 18 | The experience of the Anonymous Fellowships and of Treatment Centres based upon their principles is that the sufferers from primary addictive disease have a better chance of sustained recovery if the close family members attend corresponding appropriate Family Fellowships . |
| 19 | The most complex of their techniques is that used by the mallee fowl in the open scrub country of southern Australia . |
| 20 | Katz and Kahn have since developed their ideas and have suggested that the reason why the most effective managers show consideration and understanding towards their subordinates is because they supple formal position in the organisation and appreciate that their employees : |
| 21 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 22 | The only time parents really control their children is before they are born . |
| 23 | The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either . |
| 24 | ah group three well they got two it depends on what their criteria is if it 's erm just listening a diary of events of what 's gone on |
| 25 | Not the least of its benefits is that a music group provides a means of involving more people , especially youngsters , in its life . |
| 26 | Like Mr Kinnock , he has travelled from Land 's End to John O'Groats since 1983 in terms of the policies he believes in , but the impression that abides after his speeches is that he stays loyal to ancient socialism in a way that his more revisionist colleagues have abandoned . |
| 27 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
| 28 | The greatest of his achievements is that he is working here . |
| 29 | The important factor for the vigneron in deciding the spread of his vines is that the ‘ sum of spread ’ , that is , the distance between each vine added to the distance between each row , does not exceed 2.5 metres , thus the minimum number of vines planted per hectare is 6,666 . |
| 30 | One of his regrets is that in four series against West Indies his record is very ordinary — one innings in which he took eight wickets , but little else of note — and he is aware that not having proved himself against the best team in the world will be held against him when reputations come to be assessed . |