Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have tried to set our sights high in terms of the response we believe is essential in the wake of the Earth Summit . |
| 2 | The acoustic I use is a Yamaha APX12 — a stereo acoustic twelve-string . |
| 3 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |
| 4 | The political semi-literacy implied is shown by the fact that the coverage they get is considerably more than that afforded to ‘ real ’ politics which is focused on the party political broadcasts preserved , like flies in amber , from earlier serious political coverage on radio and television . |
| 5 | The change he makes is to assume that the laws of motion obeyed by the particles constituting an isolated system are non-invertible : that is , that the same dynamical state at a given time can be reached from two or more different dynamical states at some earlier time . |
| 6 | Answer : manufacturing a battery uses 50 times more energy than it generates and the mercury it contains is an atmospheric toxin , especially if the battery is incinerated after disposal . |
| 7 | Twenty five years on Cohan may not be , as he readily admits , at the cutting edge of contemporary dance , yet the technique he advocates is a world apart from the rigorous classicism the Scottish Ballet has sought to reinforce through its association with Oleg Vinogradov , director of the Kirov Ballet , and the appointment of Soviet-trained ballerina Galina Samsova as artistic director . |
| 8 | And if MPs on the take are not parroting the opinions of these companies what can we suppose the money they receive is for ? |
| 9 | ‘ The money we have is spoken for and the queue gets longer . |
| 10 | As you would expect from a bank as big and established as First National Bank ( group assets exceed £1 billion ) , the interest rate on the money you borrow is extraordinarily competitive : 22.6% APR variable . |
| 11 | Now he wants a bigger say in how the money he gives is spent . |
| 12 | Many other dangers exist and the disorders which result can be just as harmful to the vine , but the risk of their occurrence is less and the vigneron 's ability to contain the damage they cause is much greater . |
| 13 | In a book called Problems with badgers ? , the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals acknowledges that badgers are a nuisance for farmers , but suggests the damage they do is often exaggerated . |
| 14 | Adults travel further and feed at random much more freely , and the damage they do is not so noticeable since it is more widespread . |
| 15 | This is an evolutionary process and , while we must not pre-empt the various options which still remain for AEA 's future , neither must we lose our momentum and fail to make the progress we know is needed . |
| 16 | Apart from a very small number of older key texts , the literature I cite is purposely recent literature , which can of course always be used to track the historical contributions , if the reader so wishes . |
| 17 | I suppose I wan na be a bit careful that the experience I get is n't too specialist as well . |
| 18 | The difficulty we face is to select w k > θ making LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) bounded . |
| 19 | Some indication of the immense editorial difficulties that arose , many of which I may say were not solved until the , the Pléiade edition in three volumes of nineteen fifty-four , some of the difficulty I think is hinted at , at any rate , in a recent description of the state of Proust 's papers at the moment of his death , and I quote : ‘ Huge packets of type- and manuscript , the pages festooned with half-illegible addenda , and blackened with savage deletions which had swallowed up entire paragraphs , heaped the ugly little bamboo table that stood near his death-bed , and overflowed from the shelves of the table along the top of the nearby chimneypiece . |
| 20 | ‘ The difficulty I have is proving it . ’ |
| 21 | The processor I use is an unbadged 386SX IBM clone with a SuperVGA display . |
| 22 | ‘ Then the fact that she will will be a sign to us that the hope she gives is not in vain . |
| 23 | To the right of the route we did is a leaning wall with two of the most dramatic and difficult lines left even in Pembroke . |
| 24 | ( Yet beauty of glass is that the story it tells is that the parts can not cohere , can not form a whole , even though they would like to . ) |
| 25 | The story it tells is close to the historical details already described , but there is an overlay of romanticism which brings the dry facts to life . |
| 26 | Its 4.2-litre V8 is a little more vocal than some , but the noise it makes is more interesting . |
| 27 | The noise you describe is not uncommon with this power unit . |
| 28 | ‘ Precision of the kind you mean is important in science . |
| 29 | Equally , if , in a particular case , you suspect that your costs draftsman may not have been particularly brave where care and control is concerned , or may not fully appreciate what has been involved , do not hesitate to increase the care and control element to the level you think is justified . |
| 30 | In practise , the employee goes to the level he feels is appropriate often just to his manager 's manager . |