Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 2 | These results are not too surprising given the research findings discussed in the previous chapter and suggest that what is inherited as vulnerability to psychosis forms a broad set of dispositions that include both temperamental and cognitive features . |
| 3 | Studies of the natural constraints on learning suggest that what is learnt , and when , is probably under a genetic surveillance so that learning does not normally occur outside the context of an evolutionary stable strategy . |
| 4 | The authors suggest that what is learnt from lucid elderly people should have direct relevance for those who are confused ( p. 4 ) but this theme is not developed in any way . |
| 5 | The common use of the prepositions in and out in connection with the mind suggest that it is conceptualised as a container . ) |
| 6 | Or I might suspect too much vehemence in his insistence that he loves gibbons , and suggest that he is deceiving himself , that visiting the animals has become a habit without much joy in it . |
| 7 | Other definitions propose that it is derived from the O.E. Heall , meaning Hall Manor or Heallgemot , the court of the Lord of the Manor , or as in Heallingas , Comrades sharing the same hall . |
| 8 | I 'd like to move a petition containing seven hundred and twelve signatures , residents of Broadstone who request the installation of a pedestrian crossing on Broadstone Lane , bottom end of Shakespeare Drive and propose that it is passed on to the environment committee for consideration . |
| 9 | We urge that what is devised should not make excessive demands upon time or resources . |
| 10 | At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’ |
| 11 | I , I hate to contradict a lady but I does Mrs realise that she is voting against the construction of T five if you support my . |
| 12 | Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that he is setting an obstacle course for the courts which will make it more difficult for them to pass tough sentences in serious cases ? |
| 13 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 14 | Imagine yourself being in a crowd where English is being spoken , but suddenly you sense that somebody is talking in another language . |
| 15 | May we have the courage to respond when we sense that He is speaking to us . |
| 16 | After the burning of the forest , pioneer trees appear and it is burnt again , and again the following year . |
| 17 | More radical , because they insist that what is needed is a trade union education that recognises the political and economic causes that underlie workplace concerns , and that brings together and questions the common experiences of a range of working people . |
| 18 | some of these workers recognize that the trichotomy is not yet resolved , but others insist that it is resolved in favour of the chimpanzee-human grouping . |
| 19 | He has a right to come face to face with me , and judge for himself whether he can honourably deliver them , and never fear that he is helping to lure a brave man to his death . ’ |
| 20 | You either trust that he is going to do things fairly or you do n't . ’ |
| 21 | The changes in the health service , in education , in local authorities , mean that everything is put on hold , he said . |
| 22 | How that might change his nature , there 's the question ’ mean that he is determined to become emperor , and if he did , he may well become a tyrant and abuse his power , although he seems very noble at the moment . |
| 23 | Five million more motor cars on the roads since 1980 mean that there is bound to be more damage to , theft from and taking of motor vehicles . |
| 24 | Secondly , these falling yields mean that it is becoming cheaper for firms and individuals to borrow by issuing new claims like bonds and equities or going to building societies , by comparison with borrowing from banks . |
| 25 | And if , whether from an examination of the assumptions on which the doctrine depends , or from an inspection of the results both when it is acted upon and when it is not , they conclude that it is mistaken anyway , they will also dismiss the Marxist criticism . |
| 26 | Pausanias says he is on the god 's left , and I conclude that he is using the words from the spectator 's point of view , as I believe he does in his account of Polygnotos 's paintings at Delphi . |
| 27 | All other sources used by d'Indy show that it is intended for strings alone . |
| 28 | The trampling movements are intended to stimulate her milk flow and when these are done by the wool-sucking cat they reveal that it is treating the piece of woollen material as a surrogate mother . |
| 29 | Although I am convinced that the prime management problem is ‘ making it happen ’ , one has to accept that in life there is always at least an evens chance that one is going the wrong way . |
| 30 | ‘ I hope that what is happening here is not happening all over the country . |