Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point , however , is that Toennies based his analysis not on the difference between peasant community and urbanised society , but between the old-fashioned town and the capitalist city , ‘ essentially a commercial town and , insofar as commerce dominates its productive labour , a factory town ’ . |
| 2 | The strength of this method is that managers give their views on their peers — in other words , on firms they should know something about . |
| 3 | The presumption behind such arguments is that theists wish their statements about God to be propositions that it would be impossible to deny . |
| 4 | Another example of law not being especially important is that businesses avoid it altogether when commercial disputes arise . |
| 5 | The reason for this difference is that businesses see themselves as having a pool of resources which can be used in any aspect of their business to achieve their overall objective , e.g. to achieve a satisfactory return on capital . |
| 6 | The truth is that doctors do their best , but people 's expectations are too high . |
| 7 | One implication of this for field staff is that seniors find it much simpler to make negative rather than positive evaluations of their competence ( cf. |
| 8 | The simple reason for that is that farmers put their most marginal and least productive land into set-aside . |
| 9 | One of the many alienating features of unemployment is that weekends lose their magic . |
| 10 | The sad thing is that men take one 's social accomplishments totally for granted . ’ |
| 11 | The snare is that clauses let us see the fullest possible type of syntactic structure ; therefore , any syntactic relationship or any other type of phrase whatever can always be seen as part of a potential clause , of which the grammarian can helpfully provide the " deleted " or " understood " remainder . |
| 12 | A further key advantage for many people is that AVCs allow you to purchase ‘ added years ’ , to make up any shortfall in your entitlement to benefit under a company scheme . |
| 13 | What a pity it is that clients trust their dealers . |
| 14 | One reason why the ideological premises of grammar so often remain hidden is that linguists deny their existence . |
| 15 | This shows the lifetime reproductive success of er hinds as opposed to stags and what it shows is that hinds start their reproductive life earlier , soon after age two , and they continue it longer , right up to age seventeen . |
| 16 | That 's cos children have them . |
| 17 | Firstly that they 're more likely to get it , but secondly that that greater likelihood is because women perceive themselves as being constantly dealt with at the on the basis that they are sexual objects . |
| 18 | The first is whether counsellees recognizes their drinking to be a problem . |
| 19 | As Kenny and Kenny suggest , the " position of the landlord is now very much strengthened " and the " question is whether licences have anything at all to offer to the landlord looking for an income from his residential property . " |