Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [indef pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point of ‘ Air Conditioned Nightmare ’ seems to be that London is sinking into a theme park style existence where everything is becoming increasingly trivialised . |
| 2 | The point of ‘ Air Conditioned Nightmare ’ seems to be that London is sinking into a theme park style existence where everything is becoming increasingly trivialised . |
| 3 | So vague , indeed , is Mustakimzade that one is led to suspect that he doubts the validity of Abdulkerim 's claim to the Muftilik . |
| 4 | So wide are the analyses and the prescriptions that one is tempted to wonder whether the concept of pluralist stagnation might itself be applied to the political analysis of Britain 's ills . |
| 5 | ‘ You can not live your life in fear that someone is going to attack you . |
| 6 | Sadly the valves that everybody is selling today — including us — are just a shadow of the quality that they were even ten years ago . |
| 7 | Sadly the valves that everybody is selling today — including us — are just a shadow of the quality that they were even ten years ago . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the recognition that one is investing in a strategic option may help focus attention upon relevant matters . |
| 9 | The essential processes of Step 1 is surrender : the recognition that one is beaten , that one 's own perceptions of reality are inappropriate and that one 's life has become unmanageable and that one 's own attempts to control one 's emotions and use of addictive substances or behaviour have totally failed and always will fail . |
| 10 | There are also some wooden huts and everything is fenced in to keep out the wolves and curious locals . |
| 11 | From Lugano it was fine because the winter is always six months and everything is closed in any case , but here the galleries are open the whole year and the museum is easier to get to . |
| 12 | In every prima facae case there are always anomalies if somebody is looking for them . ’ |
| 13 | The other copies of the petition and the statement of affairs are either retained by the court or forwarded to the official receiver or insolvency practitioner if one is appointed under 5 273 ( see section 7 below ) . |
| 14 | With spreadsheet products not always well-differentiated in terms of the basic calculations that they can do , considerations such as the quality of printed output carry some weight when one is choosing from the array of packages on offer . |
| 15 | The demands of running the company today always seem paramount , and have the added advantage that one is working from one 's direct experience and not having to indulge in the extremely difficult and risky business of projecting into the future . |
| 16 | Its slave units can answer back ; they allow a shop of office manager to check at one look that everything is switched on before leaving at night . |
| 17 | It was of the kind that one is warned against sleeping upon , but I knew she did sleep upon it . |
| 18 | These could all be due to a number of different factors but they may be signs that someone is drinking too much . |
| 19 | ‘ Have you ever thought why it gets dark each evening ? ’ asks Phil one day , as they leave one coffee bar where nothing is happening , and walk to another , to find out if anything is happening there . |
| 20 | We have a get rich quick philosophy where everything is geared to maximum profits . |
| 21 | He 's a literate man now , a ferociously eager autodidact who got through Proust , Joyce and Stanislavsky in his twenties , who still retreats to his trailer between takes to write poetry that nobody is allowed to see . |
| 22 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 23 | They , or something like them , are admirable and important and we must strive to make them political realities , but they are not in themselves law and nothing is gained by pretending that they are law . |
| 24 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been in touch with the museum and someone is coming over next week and in the meantime they said do n't touch anything . ’ |
| 26 | On April 3 the Front of Socialist Forces ( FFS ) led by Hocine Aït Ahmed announced that it would boycott the June elections , which it described as " a real farce because everything is done in accordance with FLN interests " . |
| 27 | We must bring peace before everything is lost . ’ |
| 28 | We have set up the institutions and everybody is joining them . |
| 29 | Despite the grave financial situation that Italy is in today , and despite the total suspension of spending on public works , parliament has indicated that Venice should have absolute priority on account of the grave risk of permanent damage if nothing is done . |
| 30 | It 's in a way like a bereavement in as far its the middle of the afternoon and everything is going well , then suddenly everything 's changed and they 're pretty devastated and do n't know how they ought to react . |