Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I would like to say before we look at those is that the Act was actually based upon a report — the government set up a committee to look into special education several years ago , and this reported about two years ago . |
| 2 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 3 | Even an uncertainty is tangible : " What we know for certain is that this point is uncertain . " |
| 4 | The message I draw from this is that the gay movement is not ultimately about the liberation of any particular sexuality but actually about the liberation of a whole set of relationships ; an affirmation of relationships which are sexual or non-sexual , relationships through which sexuality can be realized or transformed or denied or changed or just lived . |
| 5 | What left-wing historians regret in particular is that the emergence of this new ‘ popular culture ’ came at precisely the moment when conditions were favouring the development of a radical working-class political consciousness . |
| 6 | The elder was contemptuous when the younger replied to his crushing arguments by the reply , the reason why you think like that is that you do n't say your prayers . |
| 7 | The reason why carnivores exist at all is because they arrived on Earth first . |
| 8 | What I mean by that is that if there are eight or ten things running across the spectrum from left to right , they 're all at specific points , and that way you can do a more sophisticated job of layering , while still retaining a certain delicacy . ’ |
| 9 | It 's it 's on the basis that any employer has a duty of care to employees and what I mean by that is that er an employer has a responsibility to not work employers er er employees under conditions that that are known to be unsafe . |
| 10 | What we mean by this is whether a syntactic analysis is carried out even when it is rendered unnecessary for sentence comprehension by the presence of semantic or pragmatic factors . |
| 11 | What we mean by this is that when the pupils feel themselves put down , treated without ‘ seriousness ’ , they behave in such a way as to restore themselves to the status of mature beings . |
| 12 | What we mean by this is that the lexical sub-system we use for recognising printed words in reading may be different from the sub-system we use for producing printed words in writing . |
| 13 | THE FIRST thing you notice about this is that the CD package is upside down . |
| 14 | THE FIRST thing you notice about this is that the CD package is upside down . |
| 15 | The problem that the Tories have with this is that they still appear on the unemployment figures . |
| 16 | What they have in common is that each escapes ‘ the limitations of the personal ’ . |
| 17 | What all three things have in common is that they were caused by autumn . |
| 18 | What the following thrillers have in common is that each is a rattling good read , and together they are the cream ( 1939 , as will be seen , being a particularly creamy year ) of their genre , leading you on to other delights . |
| 19 | Indeed , the main thing that the reef-building creatures have in common is that they are sessile , and produce limestone skeletons , and when they die , the skeletons stay behind . |
| 20 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 21 | The big factor that all these illnesses and health problems have in common is that they are virtually non-existent among Third World communities , living on what-grows-naturally in age-old traditional ways . |
| 22 | What they all have in common is that they are all attempts to go beyond appearances . |
| 23 | In truth there are liquid acrylics of varying viscosity and therefore suitable for different uses , but the one thing which they all have in common is that they open up acrylic work to the whole field of design and illustration and offer other useful techniques for the fine artist . |
| 24 | I 'm cool with Janet , because one thing we have in common is that both of us are out there . |
| 25 | The one thing its citizens have in common is that God has come into the life of each one and given a love for him and for each other which no human or political institution can ever produce . |
| 26 | The only thing they have in common is that they are all very much above any strength normally realized in ordinary experiments . |
| 27 | The one thing all lekking species have in common is that , apart from mating with the female , the male bird plays no part whatsoever in raising the young . |
| 28 | What they have in common is that we have qualms about both ‘ The sea is blue ’ and ‘ The lines are unequal ’ . |
| 29 | Now at least they are in the same boat , and the balancing of the pronouns in the last four lines declares their equality : I have quoted extensively from that sonnet in order to give the full context for this Our : what they have in common is that they have sinned , each has betrayed the other . |
| 30 | It gradually becomes apparent to every adolescent male that the only thing most penises have in common is that they are the wrong shape or size as far as their owners are concerned . |