Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward councillor Joan Ellis said : ‘ The fact the change has already occurred is a matter of some regret . ’ |
| 2 | What this research sets out to do is to examine , through the involvement of researchers and practitioners in all three countries , the reasons for these differences , whether they be historical , economic or ideological . |
| 3 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 4 | Because what the Sale of Goods Act goes on to say is that if the goods contain a fault which is so obvious you should have noticed the fault while you were in the shop , or the shop assistant pointed out the fault to you while you were in the shop , then I do n't think you can really demand money back on that basis . |
| 5 | What the hon. Lady has just said is astonishing . |
| 6 | What the child does not understand is that unfortunately the GIANTS have to do this . |
| 7 | Erm , listening both to what Anna and Terry are saying here , I think er myself and and the colleagues in housing are very well aware that what this council does n't have is a pre-developed strategy of social housing . |
| 8 | What Burley 's group has now done is to add a new protein structural motif to this list by solving the cocrystal structure of the basic/helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper ( b/HLH/Z ) domain of Max bound to DNA at 2.9 A resolution . |
| 9 | They spend all their time surrounded by nature and the one thing nature does n't do is lie . |
| 10 | What the author does n't say is that selection interviews , although the most commonly used method of assessing candidates , are in themselves prone to bias and prejudice . |
| 11 | If what the hon. Gentleman has just said is true , surely it would mean that any Bill could be amended in almost any way in Committee , and one could subsequently play around with its title in order to accommodate the amendments . |
| 12 | What the procedure does not permit is an exploration of alternative approaches , an understanding of the views of outside groups ( unless they think it worth briefing MPs ) and there is no scope for public opinion to form and react before the government has committed itself to a definite approach to the problem . |
| 13 | What the hon. Gentleman does not answer is this question : by putting up — |
| 14 | The only way to ensure that the unwanted behaviour does not reappear is to keep it dampened down by more punishments . |
| 15 | We may too readily have mocked the Tory ladies in their funny hats advocating primitive retribution , for what the socialist movement has not registered is that these ladies articulate a collective fear which women share . |
| 16 | Nearest a woman 's ever got is five . ’ |
| 17 | If it is obvious to both of them that what the speaker has just said is false , or so obvious as to need no comment at all , the hearer will look for implications , that is to say what is implied other than what is expressed . |
| 18 | The complacency that the Chief Secretary has just demonstrated is way beyond anything that my constituents will understand . |
| 19 | Mrs Clinton tells Vanity Fair , apparently without weighing the truth of the charges against Mr Bush : ‘ What Bill does n't understand is you 've got ta do the same thing in response as you do in negative advertising . ’ |
| 20 | To tell the child that colour in this society does not matter is to ignore the racism in the society . |
| 21 | What the report does not mention is whether MI6 received any overtures from the KGB to exchange Blake , nor does it consider the possibility that the KGB might want to free an agent who served it so well . |
| 22 | What the report does not do is to comment on the appropriateness of the sampling methodology for producing these kinds of performance measures . |
| 23 | What the report does n't say is whether any Bradford people actually took the dieticians ' message to heart . |
| 24 | But what the tār does n't realize is that it makes a perfect target for a gun , stuck up there with its pale fur as clearly visible against the dark rock as the moon is in the sky at night . ’ |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , what an existentialist account of existence does not provide is a clarification of the conditions of objectivity . |
| 26 | One way of ensuring that such misinterpretation does not occur is to adopt an approach to " experience " which is not so tied to " inwardness " . |
| 27 | The process by which a individual becomes politically socialized is a complex one . |
| 28 | The list is not exhaustive , but what this present section sets out to do is give a very substantial selection illustrating the range of material which can be drawn on by the researcher . |
| 29 | ‘ I have come to the conclusion , ’ said Betty , who had also been thinking , ‘ that the reason Beuno does n't marry is the same as the reason Elizabeth wo n't have children . |