Example sentences of "[is] [conj] you [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the enlivening aspects of Alexeev 's temperament is that you rarely know what to expect . |
| 2 | One of the most rewarding things about being a lawyer in local government [ and a striking contract with private practice ] is that you rarely get asked the same question twice and usually the problems require imaginative legal thinking . |
| 3 | ‘ All I ask of you is that you please let me go . ’ |
| 4 | An incidental advantage of splitting pupillage is that you thereby become known in two places instead of one . |
| 5 | Well all that means is that you just have n't got on with him so far , or you have n't quite found the right way to get on with that person yet . |
| 6 | That 's the thing that so easy with electric cookers is that you just have to buy the element . |
| 7 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 8 | What is actually happening is that you also get a high tide on the other side of the globe as well like that . |
| 9 | The result is that you often know your grandchildren better than your own children ! ’ |
| 10 | What this approach soon reveals is that you often spend large amounts of time not on the things that matter but on activities which are relatively easy to devote time to , while the more difficult tasks tend to be pushed aside simply because they are more difficult . |
| 11 | One of the most revealing facts about using BM is that you often discover that inadvertently you are either rewarding undesirable behaviour and hence encouraging it , or are mistakenly punishing good behaviour . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course what people find impossible to understand about you is that you genuinely do n't know what effect you have on men . ’ |
| 13 | The idea of the ‘ big plunge ’ is that you rapidly create an economic environment in which producers will spontaneously respond to demand , and the change of profit . |
| 14 | The obvious advantage is that they provide sack-loads of fun and laughter , and the disadvantage is that you sometimes have to wait three hours for them to find their boots in the morning and finish flossing their teeth . |
| 15 | That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term . |
| 16 | The first is that you always use the name of Pip . |
| 17 | Now what I recommend is that you always use the F version of any of these diagnostic test statistics and we can go on to look at the others erm in a moment . |
| 18 | Short hair is great for its wash-and-wear-ability , but the downfall is that you always feel you 're stuck with the same old look . |
| 19 | The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call . |
| 20 | So , what I would suggest is that you certainly have a word with the police and draw their attention to it and if anybody listening has parked their car there , do please consider just how safe it is where you 're parking and think of other people . |
| 21 | But you c My impression is that you still finish up with a contradiction if you use terminology like in the Greater York area when there is and stick to the existing definition of that area . |
| 22 | The really interesting thing — really staggering — is that you never came close to noticing . ’ |
| 23 | Another attractive feature of an actuary 's work is that you never stop learning — both on your own account and from your colleagues . |
| 24 | Tomorrow 's World presenter Maggie , 36 , said : ‘ One thing we have learned from alcoholism is that you never know what 's going to happen . ’ |
| 25 | The trouble with trying to fool policemen is that you never know how much they know , which is always more than they admit . |
| 26 | As Colonel Gordon Wilkinson puts it : ‘ The big thing about services catering is that you never know what 's going to happen next . |
| 27 | And the trouble with ‘ sometimes ’ is that you never know when to expect it . |
| 28 | The trouble with reading about population is that you really have to decide what you think before you choose your reference book . |
| 29 | Now your problem is young man — is that you really do n't believe that teachers ought to have authority , ought to be able to say ‘ do this ’ and you do it . |
| 30 | The moral of the whole story is that you really do have to take the responsibility for making the choice of PC yourself . |