Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [is] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 2 | I know that if I suddenly start feeling pains anywhere in my body , I do n't have to worry that it is the side effects of drugs , as , regrettably , some athletes do . |
| 3 | The endoscopy results further suggest that it is the small bowel and not the stomach or duodenum that is the main site of chronic low grade blood loss in patients on long ter , NSAIDs . |
| 4 | 6 One movement in a single section but in two different versions ( no. 5 ) has a timing , but it is not clear to which version this timing relates ; however , the composer 's autograph direction , ‘ Point viste , mais marque ’ and those given in the Cauvin MS ( Versailles , Bibl. mun. , Ms mus 226 ) and the 1729 edition ( ‘ Rondement et marque ’ ) , together with the stated desire on the first folio to shorten the work , strongly suggest that it is the shorter version of 60 bars to which this timing applies . |
| 5 | Erm I suggest that it is the fox because we 're told it has a sudden sharp hot stink the fox . |
| 6 | The implication is that , to solve some kinds of problem , an animal must know that something is the case , and not merely that a given action or sequence of actions has in the past been reinforced . |
| 7 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |
| 8 | ‘ Why , no , ma'am , I do n't know that it is the most precious thing of all , if I understand you rightly . |
| 9 | I do not think that any one of us expects our children to walk out of the place ‘ normal ’ , but we do know that it is the best place in the world for them to achieve their fullest potential . |
| 10 | In the first debate , ‘ top-down ’ makes the international system wholly dominant and ‘ bottom-up ’ retorts that it is the sum of what nations do . |
| 11 | Neo-classical economists have stressed that it is the increase in the real money supply and the real balance effect which will lead to an expansion of aggregate demand and so eliminate ERW unemployment . |
| 12 | The fiduciary controls on managerial discretion provide that it is the duty of the directors to act in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 13 | If you happen to know that it is the Prime Minister personally who advises the Queen to dissolve Parliament , you will realise that this gives him the whip hand over other members of the Cabinet — who fear the cataclysm of an untimely election as much as back-benchers do . |
| 14 | In the Third Act he realizes that the world is against him but he is intelligent enough to know that he is the victim of his own weaknesses . |
| 15 | You will think me discourteous , but perhaps I may excuse myself by explaining that it is the discourtesy of grief . ’ |
| 16 | In fact , so committed is RUC management to the principle of community policing that , in addition to specialist units , the new code of professional ethics specifies that it is the duty of all policemen and women to understand ‘ those particular community needs and problems which can cause concern and friction ’ , and be sensitive to ‘ the various public viewpoints , including historical and cultural backgrounds ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Does n't the Prime Minister realise that she is the only person in this whole shameful episode that ca n't make the excuse that I was only obeying orders , because she was the person giving the orders — and the orders are tyrannical . ’ |
| 18 | You make everything sound rosy , then you say that something 's the matter . |
| 19 | Pluralists do not deny such a possibility , even probability ; they simply say that theirs is the pragmatic solution to the difficult methodological problems involved in the analysis of power and interests ( discussed in chapters 3 and 4 respectively ) . |
| 20 | Such hidden assertions can easily be discovered , but it is less easy to notice two further presuppositions in the sentence : " It is possible to evaluate texts ( i.e. say that one is the 'best' ) " and " It is possible for texts to reflect social attitudes " . |
| 21 | I said And I always say that it 's the Orcad |
| 22 | well , when I say that it 's the best opportunity for peace I 've seen in twenty years . |
| 23 | On the one hand we have the hunting fraternity saying that because they rarely catch and kill foxes , some say a two to three percent efficiency rate , er that it 's not cruel yet on the other hand , they say that it 's the most efficient and humane way to control the fox population . |
| 24 | They say that it 's the poor that helps the poor and that 's how I 've found it goes quite honestly . |
| 25 | How can the hon. Gentleman say that it is the Government 's fault when someone does not pay taxes ? |
| 26 | I only say that it is the route of the Council of Europe that has been recognised by the Community as leading to Community membership itself . |
| 27 | Acknowledge that it is the will of God for His children to have health and strength to carry out His work . |
| 28 | Indeed , in an essay which may be read as a gloss on aspects of S/Z ( with which it is roughly contemporary ) , ‘ The Death of the author ’ , Barthes writes that it is the reader , and not the author , who constitutes the only focus for the multiple writings and codes of which the text is made up : ‘ The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost ’ ( 1977b : 148 ) . |
| 29 | I found that it is the planning of this , that it 's also choir rehearsals , and certain school activities that do clash . |
| 30 | He fully accepts that there is the problem of the car 's contribution to the greenhouse effect and the way it is making new car buyers more critical and raising their expectations . |