Example sentences of "tells [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Yet beauty of glass is that the story it tells is that the parts can not cohere , can not form a whole , even though they would like to . ) |
| 2 | The story it tells is close to the historical details already described , but there is an overlay of romanticism which brings the dry facts to life . |
| 3 | The story the DTI report tells is of a highly successful small businessman who found himself out of his depth in the big league into which he was propelled by the Manpower acquisition . |
| 4 | Eva is married to a preacher and the tale she tells is of their Baptist congregation whose exuberant spiritual style of worship was banned by the colonial Government in 1917 . |
| 5 | The second tale " Chaucer " tells is the persistently solemn prose of the serious moralist ; a close , careful and caring translation of a French original . |
| 6 | While the Monk , usually politely addressed as ye , declines the invitation of the Host to " " be myrie of cheere " " as he tells his tale ( VII : 1924 – 5 ) , the Nun 's Priest , familiarly addressed as thou , is ready and able to provide what is wanted : The tale the Nun 's Priest tells is a beast-fable : a form of literature that should observe and comment on human traits and manners in a moral light , presenting those traits and manners in a fictional drama in which the characters are of the animal world . |
| 7 | Erm , and that er what causes erm David Lewis to tell the sorts of stories about he tells is this kind of hideous accident that happened to him when he was three years old and then was exaggerated by his |
| 8 | Erm , and what causes erm you know , so tells is another series of accidents that , that are completely at the level of , of historical and bodily erm . |