Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [indef pn] is [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So wide are the analyses and the prescriptions that one is tempted to wonder whether the concept of pluralist stagnation might itself be applied to the political analysis of Britain 's ills .
2 Sadly the valves that everybody is selling today — including us — are just a shadow of the quality that they were even ten years ago .
3 Sadly the valves that everybody is selling today — including us — are just a shadow of the quality that they were even ten years ago .
4 There are also some wooden huts and everything is fenced in to keep out the wolves and curious locals .
5 From Lugano it was fine because the winter is always six months and everything is closed in any case , but here the galleries are open the whole year and the museum is easier to get to .
6 In every prima facae case there are always anomalies if somebody is looking for them . ’
7 These could all be due to a number of different factors but they may be signs that someone is drinking too much .
8 I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education .
9 We have set up the institutions and everybody is joining them .
10 My advice to Mr Stewart is to think carefully before entering into a career in medicine , as this is also a field which requires a lot of dedication , perseverance and long hours if one is to achieve anything worthwhile .
11 Keith reckons it cuts through better , especially in the tail end of a song , ‘ when all hell 's breaking loose and there 's infills and everybody is winding up .
12 We have 16 other good players here and you just have to get on with things if someone is ruled out .
13 Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten .
14 Souness often spouts on about deals when nothing is happening .
15 Either the magistrate refuses bail and says , effectively , that the court orders that the weekly equivalent of £20,000 a year is spent on the offender until his case is heard , or the court grants bail and orders that nothing is spent on the offender until the case is heard .
16 The Sufi tradition in particular stresses that only through the use of symbols can any understanding be reached : It is through symbols that one is awakened ; it is through symbols that one is transformed ; and it is through symbols that one expresses .
17 The Sufi tradition in particular stresses that only through the use of symbols can any understanding be reached : It is through symbols that one is awakened ; it is through symbols that one is transformed ; and it is through symbols that one expresses .
18 In highlighting gender differences in deviance , there is the risk of overplaying such dimensions and of confirming the very stereotypes that one is attacking in curriculum materials .
19 The people who are caught then become Loch Ness Monsters until everyone is caught .
20 They look at a map , draw a line and produce leaflets but nothing is done on the ground to withstand the pressure of hundreds of people following the route .
21 And Coun Bill Dixon , chairman of the Labour council 's Housing Committee , has warned that the authority would think twice about any future developments unless something is done .
22 York does not have a permanent site for travellers although one is planned .
23 If you 're part of a team , tell the others if something is bothering you .
24 A reasonable duration period should therefore be set for MINTEG otherwise it may take several runs before anything is deleted .
25 Motorists would benefit in other ways too , eg. the difficulty of overtaking a cyclist on narrow streets when something is coming from the opposite direction .
26 There are no defined relationships to other records as everything is handled at document level .
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