Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When your mother dies you do n't know where to go or what 's going to happen to you .
2 A counter-notice which must be served within 21 days after service of the Notice , should only be given where it is required that the party whose statement it is sought to admit , should be called as a witness , but there are witnesses who can not , or should not be called , that is if dead , beyond the seas , or unfit to attend , or who can not after reasonable diligence be identified , or can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection ; consequently in respect of all those persons , the opposing party is not entitled to serve a counter-notice requiring such person to be called unless he can contend that the person can , or should be called .
3 stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid .
4 Gray said : ‘ There 's no denying that it 's going to be a tough fight now .
5 A series of complex and powerful planetary influences suggest that everyone 's gunning for you this month .
6 These results are not too surprising given the research findings discussed in the previous chapter and suggest that what is inherited as vulnerability to psychosis forms a broad set of dispositions that include both temperamental and cognitive features .
7 Studies of the natural constraints on learning suggest that what is learnt , and when , is probably under a genetic surveillance so that learning does not normally occur outside the context of an evolutionary stable strategy .
8 The authors suggest that what is learnt from lucid elderly people should have direct relevance for those who are confused ( p. 4 ) but this theme is not developed in any way .
9 The common use of the prepositions in and out in connection with the mind suggest that it is conceptualised as a container . )
10 Or I might suspect too much vehemence in his insistence that he loves gibbons , and suggest that he is deceiving himself , that visiting the animals has become a habit without much joy in it .
11 Unabashed by this thought , she adds that she is thinking seriously about it , and is prepared to meet party officials to discuss it .
12 Sir Terence adds that he is enclosing for Christopher Patten a copy of the rules which the Cabinet Office has issued for the guidance of officials ‘ on such exercises ’ .
13 Take great care , because they must not know that somebody is watching them . ’
14 Referring to the point at which I first tried to intervene , he will know that there is under-reporting of crime .
15 The badge is secret — and no-one should know that it 's hiding on the front until she gets the T-shirt or jumper on .
16 No one knows where HIV started , but we do know that it is spreading fast and nearly every country in the world has people with HIV or AIDS .
17 The collector will know that it is faked up in the style of an earlier period .
18 He does n't know that he 's done quite well in the tests .
19 And he , he he must know that he 's gon na keep it up .
20 ‘ He does n't know , you know — Miguelito does n't know that he 's going to be unmasked tonight .
21 Thus , a director must know that he is connected with his company or a related company ; an officer or employee must know that he is connected with his company or a related company , and so on .
22 Thus , a director must know that he is connected with his company or a related company ; an officer or employee must know that he is connected with his company or a related company , and so on .
23 Under the CSA 1985 , an insider must deal and know that he is dealing when in possession of a particular type of information , referred to as ‘ unpublished price sensitive information ’ .
24 When the Prime Minister arrives , will he let people know that he is coming ?
25 ‘ You may not know who , but you do know that someone is creating — unauthorized , shall we say — zombis , do n't you ? ’
26 All the time the reader is reminded that he is reading , confronted with his own reactions , reminded to keep his distance , forced into sceptical attitudes by an author determined that nothing shall appear easy or comfortable .
27 ‘ It helps to know that someone is looking after it , that someone cares .
28 It might be helpful to know that it is planned that low flying by jets will decline by about 30 per cent .
29 ‘ And now to know that it is haunted makes me a little apprehensive . ’
30 that is , that is what , that is what exists to do , or one of the things that exists to do as the U K sales company our business is to give the projections for a particular piece of business , and if we see any other similar bits of business around it that 's fine , that 's , that needs to be added to it , but to give our vision of that particular piece of business , feed that into the marketing people in , and say , look , this is the situation if we go this way , this is what we think is going to happen , if we do this , this is going to happen , if we do n't do this , this is what 's going to happen , so that that can be fed into an overall picture , and they will come back , I presume , and say , right , we now have enough information to know that it 's going to be worth =vesting , investing in production of sixteen double O fours in er Peter .
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