Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [adv] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleaning your house while the kids are still growing is like shovelling the snow before it stops snowing . |
| 2 | By emphasising the ‘ primacy of action ’ what these theologians are really saying is that we do not know — indeed we can not obtain knowledge except through praxis . |
| 3 | A further example where executive search firms are often used is in the question of size of business . |
| 4 | The method of checking that the airbrakes are correctly locked is all-important . |
| 5 | A group of people who entered some state at about the same time and whose life histories are thereafter studied is called a cohort . |
| 6 | The reason that conventional trackballs and joysticks are n't used is because the precise positioning that they provide simply is n't needed . |
| 7 | The reason why ex-boarding school pupils are forever divorcing is that during some of their most formative years love is characterised by distance , not closeness . |
| 8 | You certainly wo n't miraculously ensure perfect spelling by helping pupils to use dictionaries , but you will find that it 's time well spent , because the main use to which dictionaries are normally put is to check spellings . |