Example sentences of "[is] [conj] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that they passively resist you , it 's that they actively sabotage you , because the change is so graphic . |
| 2 | Er and then to contrast this you 've got like the feminist view er well it 's a just reconstruct a lot of these ideas instead of saying that women 's talk was diffident they said it was more considerate , and so the idea that quite often A lot of the features that are in this conversation are n't because women want to be deferential to the men they 're talking to , it 's that they actually want to show some consideration to the turn-taking or the conversational style that 's going on . |
| 3 | The problem with adult learners is that they already have strategies for grammatical analysis and can efficiently use context in communication . |
| 4 | But the truth is that they just wake up . |
| 5 | ‘ You see , the trouble with guitars that are designed to project is that they just do n't sound good to the player . |
| 6 | The , the possibility is that they just looked after one sex better than the other and there is some anec anecdotic evidence that this kind of thing occurs , which I have n't got time go to into because I 'm getting towards the end of the lecture . |
| 7 | The trouble with some of those who make much of their support for the health service is that they also oppose any measures taken to make it more effective . |
| 8 | One of the problems with many children who experience difficulties with language and communication is that they also experience limited opportunities for engaging in social routines . |
| 9 | with Frude 's assertion that one of the advantages of hackers is that they generally become very proficient programmers . |
| 10 | But the other important is that they both have to sign the banker 's order . |
| 11 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 12 | However , the appellants ' case in respect of that matter is that they simply did not realise that they were doing anything wrong . |
| 13 | A common criticism of both these theories is that they simply look at the end result of education ; they are examples of an ‘ input/output ’ model . |
| 14 | What we do know is that they simply say it 's too far round er the diversion in distance terms is too long . |
| 15 | One of the interesting things about S S K is that they clearly see us as an organisation they want to court . |
| 16 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 17 | However , a particular feature of the provisions on Cooperation in the fields of Justice and Home Affairs is that they expressly envisage that certain matters may be transferred to Community competence . |
| 18 | That , and we 've had this in the past , where I would say that people that live in Yarbury North and South probably do earn less and live in houses that probably are , do n't have as big gardens and things like that , so the natu the nature of the is that they probably do earn less money erm but I I do n't consider those to be ghettos at all . |
| 19 | Their excuse — not that lame — is that they frequently have to cater for up to 80,000 , mainly male , football fans wanting to go at half-time . |
| 20 | A major problem with newsletters to parents is that they frequently do n't get to their destination . |
| 21 | The reason for thinking that chloroplasts have this origin is that they still retain their own DNA and their own protein-synthesizing machinery . |
| 22 | The problem that the Tories have with this is that they still appear on the unemployment figures . |
| 23 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 24 | The only difference is that they now want to leave the skip on site for a week at a time . |
| 25 | However , parents have one big advantage and that is that they now have access to the GCSE and A-level exam results of all pupils — that is the biggest giveaway ! |
| 26 | The big problem with Benchmarks , though , is that they only tell you how well a given machine runs that particular benchmark . |
| 27 | On this point , a central problem with criminal statistics is that they only cover what is officially defined as crime at any one time . |
| 28 | No but the big thing is that they only learn . |
| 29 | ( It is tempting to say that they are rare , but the truth is that they only seem rare because we avoid them . ) |
| 30 | One of the most important things about constructive arguments is that they almost have to be step by step . |