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Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [pron] [vb -s] the " in BNC.

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1	Covenanted donations to charities for a term of more than three years can be offset against tax if you are someone who pays the higher rate of tax .
2	‘ Well then , since it was my fault we missed the train again , it 'd better be me who does the talkin' when we get there .
3	This Conservative environment may be one which encourages the development of an ordinary social life , but it is also an extraordinary environment .
4	The threat must be one which puts the victim " then and there " in fear of force .
5	Or the poem might be one which has the opposite effect , lulling him in established habits of perception and feeling , or fascinating with some novel and appealing fashion in self-deception .
6	Thus the fractions selected for comparison must require the pupils to consider both numerator and denominator and the largest fraction must not be one which has the largest numerator and denominator .
7	For instance , we assume he would satisfy our behavioural criteria for being someone who knows the meaning of the word bank .
8	Far from Freud 's concept of the super-ego being one which assumes the super-ego to be entirely built up from outside , from social relationships with parents and educators only — as Parsons — claims — it , too , contains instinctual elements .
9	Whether in fact any such obligations have been created depends on the construction of the lease ; and there is nothing which requires the lease to be constructed in such a way as to avoid , if possible , the creation of such obligations ( Bradshaw v Pawley [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 10 , where liability for rent was held to be retrospective ) .
10	Where an order for possession is made under Ord 24 ( " summary procedure " for recovery of land occupied without licence or consent ) , r 5(4) says that there is nothing which prevents the order for possession being given on a specific date as if the proceedings had been brought by action ( r 5(3) and ( 4 ) .
11	I must be careful here , for while the provision for community education in Scotland is generally more advanced at the level of local authority involvement than in the areas of the USA which I visited , and while organisations such as the Trades Unions , the WEA and others do much to orchestrate various adult education projects , there is nothing which approaches the ‘ schools for problems ’ which Highlander provides .
12	On a deeper level , an actor is someone who remembers the primitive primordial impulses that inhabited his body before he was ‘ civilized ’ and ‘ educated ’ .
13	So that 's worth bearing in mind , and how you handle it , I mean maybe the press officer makes an arrangement to facilitate the the actual contact , but the press officer , a good press officer is not a person who stops the press getting into an organization , a good press officer is somebody who facilitates the press getting into the organization in the right way and talking to the right people preferably about the right things , but if not the right things the wrong things to the right with the right people , if you understand what I 'm saying .
14	A transvestite is somebody who wears the clothes of the other sex — in our society it is considered bizarre for men to wear wimmin 's clothing , though it is now common for wimmin to wear men 's clothing .
15	And it is of the utmost importance to realise that the pragmatic answer to these questions is itself what makes the revolution never happen .
16	It 's you who has the answers now .
17	It 's you who holds the key , literally , the key to success on the court .
18	So do n't fall for it — make sure it is you who calls the tune .
19	As a Taurean , you work well with others as long as it is you who calls the shots .
20	Under the watchful eye of the teacher the children improvise their shoe shop , and probably it is she who suggests the use of shelves for the ‘ display ’ of pairs .
21	It seems that , quite contrarily , it is she who courts the male , and he who rears the chicks .
22	They too have assumed that there is something natural and self-evident about the human individual as a separate physical body , but then , in order to distinguish their own field of enquiry from that of the physical anthropologists , they have reified their special concept of culture to a point where we end up with the implicit definition : " Culture is everything which concerns the life and behaviour of human beings which is not an aspect of human nature , as the physical anthropologists perceive it . "
23	A reinforcer is something which changes the rate of occurrence of an operant .
24	Especially if the new subject is one which upsets the previous structure of relationships , it will be difficult to fit into the existing order .
25	In The Future of an Illusion , the use of the term ‘ religion ’ is one which fits the Jewish-Islamic-Christian complex of religions , which are built upon the notion of a Creator God .
26	Any structural change — that is one which changes the rules of the game on the basis of which bargaining takes place — would have to come from outside the system .
27	A happy medium is one which re-calculates the pages in real time but can suppress the display if required to avoid the annoyance of a constantly changing display .
28	An example of such a clause is one which says the employee is not to canvass or solicit during a period of five years from the date of the determination of this agreement for whatever reason any person , company or firm who were customers of the employer with whom he dealt during the last three years of his employment .
29	Another by-product of official strategy is one which involves the fans and the police acting in a concerted and co-operative manner .
30	X causes Y which in turn causes Z ’ ; while a mediating variable ‘ is one which shapes the very relationship between the two other variables : Y causes the way in which X affects Z ’ ( 1979 : 23 ) .