Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And judging ads , or deciding which are the good ones , either before or after they have been run , is the subject of the next chapter . |
| 2 | In the case of products ( like salt , oil or coal ) which are won or abstracted , the person who wins or abstracts them is the producer . |
| 3 | Sir J. Franklin desires me to give his compliments — he is in very good health & hopes you are the same . ’ |
| 4 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 5 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 6 | During his waking hours the thought that haunted him was the Renault 18 and its two occupants . |
| 7 | The main thing that upsets me is the fact that she 's a bastard . |
| 8 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 9 | It 's considered disgusting to use Lilets , because of the idea that the female body itself is disgusting , and that touching yourself is the equivalent of masturbation . |
| 10 | The indifference of Limnititzkers to the great outdoors is well-known ; the only landscapes that interest them are the hills of a totally discorporeal Zion . |
| 11 | Nor has it been the result of government action and state control . |
| 12 | Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge . |
| 13 | What matters most is that we should accept the peculiarity of the method rather than assume it is the natural and only way to behave . |
| 14 | The next climb that attracted us was The Magic Line on El Gorro Frigio — a large dome higher up the massif . |
| 15 | Well the thing that concerns me is the readiness in which er rushing to ban the communist party . |
| 16 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 17 | Another thing that surprised me was the manager 's quotes after the defeat at Spurs . |
| 18 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 19 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 20 | The only thing that spoilt it was the absence of Robert . |
| 21 | All that betrayed her was the slight tremor in the hand holding her wineglass . |
| 22 | That sound posher than saying it 's the phone-in number . |
| 23 | Or I 'm responsible for erm and she did what she did rather than saying I 'm the indoor sales exec or the the account handler or the telesales person who is or |
| 24 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |
| 25 | The constituency that chose you was the Conservative party . |
| 26 | What bothered me mo well wha one of the things that bothers me is the fact that he said that he would n't like to do hospital chaplaincy because he would n't like to go visiting because he 's got no small talk . |
| 27 | The only assumption that explains them is the same assumption that leads Miller and Swift to criticise the generic masculine : that the norm of humanity in just about every sphere is a man . |
| 28 | The birds that do it are the oilbirds of South America , and the cave swiftlets of the Far East , the ones whose nests are used for birds ' nest soup . |
| 29 | Another flower that astonished me was the bloom of the Golden Abutilon . |
| 30 | The first thing that struck her was the cold . |