Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [indef pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
| 2 | The immediate answer might well be that one is making a financial profit and the other a loss . |
| 3 | There are two solutions — either one refuses to conduct policy-oriented research in order to preserve one 's academic purity or one undertakes the research and risks the consequences which may be that one is over-identified with those who commissioned the research or those investigated . |
| 4 | So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose . |
| 5 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 6 | My complaint about reviews so far is that everyone is reviewing the man Larkin and not the biography of him . |
| 7 | The rationalization is that everything is done in the interests of the patient , but it is also designed to protect professionals from feelings that are , for them , genuinely intolerable . |
| 8 | The main thing is that everything is going to be all right ! ’ |
| 9 | Its particular advantage is that everything is contained into a smaller central area . |
| 10 | The significance of fantasizing about a new house or a new flat is that one is visualizing a change in one 's work environment . |
| 11 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 12 | It 's like somebody is watching it all for you … ’ |
| 13 | One ambiguity which runs through most definitions , as it does with the word ‘ course ’ , is whether one is referring to the total package of studies or only one element in it ; thus one can speak of the undergraduate curriculum or the history curriculum . |
| 14 | The only problem is whether everything is going to get sucked down in the process . |
| 15 | You know , now that is , that is when somebody is trying to take you further , there 's , there 's , there 's the food , there 's been a food , I do n't know , food , food poisoning outbreak in a well-known city restaurant or something like that , there 's thirty people in hospital , a couple are pretty serious , there 's a general flap on because it 's the height of the tourist season in Cambridge , and you 've been called in . |