Example sentences of "[vb infin] a [noun] [is] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He personally could n't give a monkey 's whether I went out or.not as long as the CID boys knew where they could get me .
2 And the only way these can make a difference is if he shares them , tests them out , listens to other ideas and looks for ways to put them into practice .
3 I I accept that er the government guidance as Miss has suggested and reinforced by Mr does suggest a policy is that there should be that er increased level er of detail erm in the structure plan .
4 ‘ The reason I do n't have a band is that for the longest time I 've been disgusted with the mode that the American independent scene operates in and I do n't want to be associated with that .
5 Er the only reason for the fact that we we did n't have a tragedy is that the population in the in those areas is very sparse .
6 Relatively little is known about such people , although in oral evidence to the House of Commons Health Committee the head of medical statistics at the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys remarked that ‘ one of the things that people are now suggesting about that other group who do not have an occupation is that they are forming … an under class . ’
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