Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 2 | The advantages of friendship are that you have someone who can help you in any difficulties , you can have fun together and share the same experiences . |
| 3 | the the reasoning being that I 've gone into the aspects of erm income support and that and basically i it 's about seventy pound a week to live on . |
| 4 | With 9,009 first.preference papers Baxter had 102 votes to spare , the quota being as we know 8,907 . |
| 5 | The important thing in dealing with our self-image is that we recognise that we are different creatures with different skills and abilities , and that we have a very realistic idea of what our skills and inabilities actually are . |
| 6 | A further reason why such dichotomies as are embodied in the quantitative–qualitative distinction should not be allowed to dominate our thinking is that they tend to obscure the sheer and sometimes bewildering variety of materials that can qualify as data . |
| 7 | One flaw in the techniques of vertical thinking is that they proceed from the known into the unknown . |
| 8 | Anyone listening to or reading about the debate will know that the nub of the Government 's thinking is that they want the Bill to be passed . |
| 9 | Jones finished off by saying : ‘ The good thing about English football is that they do n't roll about the pitch if they are not hurt . |
| 10 | My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) . |
| 11 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 12 | One of the drawbacks in presenting such a wide range of analytical exercises in quick succession is that we become so overwhelmed by the options that we end up by doing nothing . |
| 13 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 14 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 15 | The result is that we 've received over 3,000 hours of new work , and most of this is on priority jobs . |
| 16 | The result is that we kill 5,000 people and maim a quarter of a million on our roads in the name of personal convenience . |
| 17 | The result is that we try to ‘ give pupils confidence ’ by providing simple tasks with little or no challenge . |
| 18 | The result is that we have three much-prized Blue Flags for our beaches . ’ |
| 19 | The result is that we have six MOs , two bonding , of symmetry species a 1 and b 2 , two non-bonding , of symmetry species a 1 and b 1 , and two anti-bonding , of symmetry species a 1 and b 2 . |
| 20 | The result is that we have been steadily betraying mentally-ill people for at least a century . |
| 21 | The result is that they make less use of their linguistic resources than they do at home and have less opportunity to extend those they already possess , except perhaps in relation to the specific vocabulary associated with the tasks they are required to perform . |
| 22 | The result is that they move along the beach with a type of zigzag motion ( Fig. 8.14 ) . |
| 23 | The result is that they fail to do the jobs they take on , witness the case of an operating system for the PERQ computer ( This Week , 20 January , p 144 ) . |
| 24 | The result is that they hang around the city and most family incomes are supplemented by crime of one sort or another . |
| 25 | The result is that you know who bought what and where . |
| 26 | ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears . |
| 27 | So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’ |
| 28 | Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun . |
| 29 | This went smoothly and is a great improvement but in order to create the compressed drive and double the hard disk capacity the SuperStor program took my hard disk ( drive C : ) and seemed to create a compressed drive D : it then swaps drive D and drive C so that the compressed drive is now C : The result is that I seem to be locked out of my old drive D in Rom which has one or two useful bits on — like a hardware check program . |
| 30 | Therefore , the result is that I dismiss the claim as against the second defendant . |