Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It is not always clear what the public interest is or what serves it .
2 ‘ Once she tells us where the book is or she leads us to it , she dies . ’
3 So we basically done to what that is although they said they were just gon na dri , drill a one point nine five
4 are reasonably senior , and the great thing is once they do you one favour that 's it , and it 's better because rather than have , for example a junior police officer , who has no idea of covering his tracks
5 ‘ All I can say though is that whatever happens it will be my decision , ’ she said , revealing the determination and single-mindedness that was later to be turned against her .
6 The only thing I 'm bent out of shape about is that nobody knows it 's a different pickup ; everyone thinks it 's a regular Trembucker !
7 One of the most important aspects is that we saw ourselves as town traders — that magical area where buyer and seller come together .
8 I think , I think yes , I think the consensus is that we hold it on Friday the ninth erm and we 're going to apply , the three full time officers will apply for those in their organization that they want to attend , apply for paid release .
9 The main point about a search is that we know what we are looking for and often we know where to look .
10 The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers .
11 ‘ The problem is that we know nothing about either the land or the people , ’ Alexei said .
12 I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another .
13 The terrible thing about the modern attitude to death is that we pass it on to our children .
14 And the reason for that is that we ask you to do three things when you get in front of the advertiser having got his commitment .
15 I mean I one of the things that I 've always sort of had in mind is that we put it down in the reception area .
16 Yes , I mean my view is that we put it out for members we see what the uptake is and then we can always look at the list and ring certain other people
17 I mean , maybe what I 'm hearing from the committee is that we take it back and look at the criteria and the ground rules .
18 The one thing about advertising er Patrick is that we tell them everything on the phone .
19 I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer .
20 But of course profit 's one thing , and income 's another thing , and I think the problem with most er forms of income type investment is that we spend it , it 's not a problem it 's just , it just happens .
21 Having learnt to cope happily on our own , the likelihood is that we find we are not alone after all .
22 ‘ The idea is that we believe there is a higher force within everyone so there is a chance for change . ’
23 The short answer is that we assert it on the basis of two things , an independent nomic conditional , and ( C ) a belief about certain conditions , which is a belief that the antecedent of the independent conditional is in a certain part true .
24 For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time .
25 What it means is that we reduce our service , and we take , we can , we can , we can expect the independent sector to fill that gap for us .
26 ‘ The Arsenal way of doing things , though , is that we do them in private — not in public .
27 I think on balance I mi I my advice is that we do nothing , just wait and see if whether he contacts you at all .
28 We may do it badly , but the beauty is that we do it at all .
29 Now what that means is that we have what we call an agency budget .
30 A recurrent theme in Society activities is that we have plenty of speakers amongst our own ranks .
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