Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out . |
| 2 | But the weird thing about this supposedly ‘ shock admission ’ is that everyone made the most dreadful fuss when she said she intended to ‘ go on and on and on ’ . |
| 3 | But if as a Westerner you can not read the abacus , or the scales , it is bad luck , because the assumption is that everyone shares the skills that enable them to do this . |
| 4 | ‘ The important thing is that everyone has a blinding time , ’ says Dermot with the quiet confidence of a promoter who never promises attractions he ca n't deliver . |
| 5 | For instance , part of the trouble in the clean-air example is that nobody owns the air ; if somebody did , polluters would not be able to dirty it with impunity . |
| 6 | It is that everybody understands the idea of having diarrhoea and it is not pleasant , but you do not die from it . |
| 7 | The simplest form of such a rule is that which empowers an individual or body of persons to introduce new primary rules for the conduct of the life of the group , or of some class within it , and to eliminate old rules … |
| 8 | Legal aid is not available in any form for industrial tribunal hearings erm so what I usually say is that we assist the client up to the stage where s it means going er to the tribunal itself . |
| 9 | This objection helps to reveal why it is that we regard a hierarchical classification as natural . |
| 10 | A good answer is that we regard the causal circumstance as leaving no room for any other eventuality than the effect . |
| 11 | ‘ The worst thing is that we get no information about what is going on ’ , he says . |
| 12 | It its a big task , em er the thing is that I think that that the first point of call is one is that we get the questionnaire out and see whether you know the one where can we can the questionnaires to all the neighbourhood watch is it , w w we prepare the questionnaire and we get on and send it out , right . |
| 13 | So what I propose is that we put the notion of happiness back in its box and restrict ourselves to the word ‘ happy ’ , which people do in fact use in everyday circumstances . |
| 14 | A limitation of this study is that we had no information on the type of hysterectomy — abdominal or vaginal . |
| 15 | Well what they mean when they say a half of a quarter is that we had a a quarter and we 've shared it out between the two of it so we 've got half to that each . |
| 16 | I know you 're not Steve but all I 'm saying is that we had a discussion about this earlier in the week . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid the fact is that we had the finest guitarist in the world and we did n't recognise it . |
| 18 | The feeling is that we had the idea , which was the crucial element , and anybody could manufacture the product , but that is not true . |
| 19 | ‘ We are quite profitable today , but the key point we try to make is that we take a very long-term view of our business . |
| 20 | on this , and I 'll reiterate this , is the process that we go through as I understand it for introducing procedures , is that we take a diagonal slice through the organization er in other words there 's a draft procedure produced . |
| 21 | With children , the presupposition is that we take the responsibility until they show us that they want it ; with adults we assume that they take the responsibility unless they show us that they do n't . |
| 22 | The key is that we take the issue seriously . |
| 23 | What we were n't trying to say is that we make no contribution to the greenhouse effect … [ but ] to say that making Andrex from virgin fibre instead of waste causes less carbon dioxide to be released to the atmosphere . ’ |
| 24 | God 's goal for every Christian is that we develop the character of Christ . |
| 25 | What is certainly important is that we maintain the support of our investors ( who in fact own the company ) and satisfy them that their investment objectives are being , or will be , achieved . |
| 26 | So in a way , what my teachers here and what we are arguing about is that we want a school which cares for individual children , which rejects both extremes that I 've mentioned . |
| 27 | So as you said the danger is that it 's not balanced for our delegates and the ideal is that we want the combination of all four . |
| 28 | You see the thing is that we want the economy to pick up . |
| 29 | I think has summed up quite well there I think , which , what everyone 's aims is , which is that we want an effective and efficient police force , which everyone has got confidence in to make sure that it protects citizens against crime in this country , and nothing could be , I do n't think anybody who is erm , civilised in this county or this country would want anything different . |
| 30 | Those ultimate motivations will be the subject of the next section , but here we are interested in exactly what it is that we expect a pragmatic theory to do . |