Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 2 | The lasting impression of these accounts is that everyone agrees that there was a ‘ permissive age ’ , or a process of change that can be described as ‘ permissive ’ , but that no-one can actually agree what constituted ‘ permissiveness ’ . |
| 3 | What does stand out is that everyone believes that the profession , its standards and its aims , matter , and they all feel an excitement about the job of acting . |
| 4 | The most important issue regarding freedom is that we fear that , far from more people being given control over their lives , when the new system comes into play , fewer people will have control . |
| 5 | The reason we want to adopt other people 's beliefs is that we know that everyone wants their own beliefs to be true : because , as we 've seen , truth is what makes our own beliefs useful to us in the way I described earlier , by making our actions succeed in fulfilling our desires . |
| 6 | The point about the Urgonian limestones , say , is that we know that they are of about the same age throughout Europe in spite of the fact that fossil evidence shows them to have started and ended at different times in different places . |
| 7 | no , because the point is that Labour has not changed it 's course , which is recognizing that at the heart of it 's policies we have to show that we know the world has changed , and we 've got a message to women , which is that we know that you are essential in your role in the family , but we know you 're also essential in the economy , |
| 8 | The next issue is that we know that these prospective inward investors are likely to be looking for a site in reasonably attractive setting . |
| 9 | All that matters is that we know and they do n't know that we do . ’ |
| 10 | The trap is that we assume that a broad market means a less specialised product at a low price . |
| 11 | We seldom read in the tabloid press local police force fails er we may frequently read in the local press in the tabloid press rather , that the Home Secretary has failed and yet what we seem to be saying is that we believe that all the responsibility should be local , all that responsibility , all the blame when things go wrong should go to the Home Secretary . |
| 12 | Er I think our position is that we provide as you know , air defence through a layered system er of air defence aircraft and missiles and the simple truth is that in the light of the changes in the strategic er setting , particularly er as it affects U K air defence , we have decided that the provision of a medium defensive layer , that is the M sound system to which you refer , is not a high priority at the moment and the programme is therefore being postponed and I have to emphasise it 's not been abandoned . |
| 13 | What matters is that we realise that they are being friendly , so we shout back , ‘ It 's a lovely day today , is n't it ? ’ , or some such thing which they probably will not hear anyway , but the idea of friendliness has been transferred , and both people are happy , although the words were quite unintelligible . |
| 14 | A third problem with the idea that everything is determined is that we feel that we have free will — that we have the freedom to choose whether to do something . |
| 15 | The crucial difference between a social democratic view of the state and the one taken here , is that we recognise that the bureaucracy itself is political in the course of exercising its executive powers , particularly in the realm of policy-making at the upper levels and in implementation at the lower levels . |
| 16 | The important thing in dealing with our self-image is that we recognise that we are different creatures with different skills and abilities , and that we have a very realistic idea of what our skills and inabilities actually are . |
| 17 | I have had my own opinion confirmed with the advice from the business convenor and the vice convenor , and that is that we determine that this is in fact a counter motion that you have spoken to because it is against the spirit of the deliverance . |
| 18 | We also showed that grade two do significantly better than grade three , but most importantly perhaps is that we showed that patients with a vascular count that are less than twenty one do significantly better than patients with a vascular count of greater or equal to twenty one . |
| 19 | The reason why the Opposition do not like Question Time and try to drown my right hon. Friend out is that they know that we are right in everything that we say and that the country will not support them on their policies . |
| 20 | The point about these last two demonstrations is that they emphasise that spinning depends on stalling and keeping the aircraft stalled . |
| 21 | Where Marxists and elitists diverge from pluralist approaches is that they argue that the influence of outside pressures on government decision-making is limited to those exercised by specific economic or social classes . |
| 22 | What is denied by the defendant and what is the issue of trial is that they deny that they were ever instructed by Mr er to save such a measure or that it would have been appropriate to serve them or that at any stage Mr ever asked to be advised on any way open to him to get out of the contract er as alleged . |
| 23 | The trouble with all of these theories of Broca 's aphasia , and others like them , is that they assume that a single deficit is involved , i.e. that the syndrome is a ‘ theoretical syndrome ’ ; and it is becoming increasingly clear that this is not so . |
| 24 | One major reason why many individuals may shy away from a very redistributive budget or a generous negative income tax scheme is that they fear that attempts to share the economic cake ( GNP ) more evenly will reduce its size because of disincentive effects . |
| 25 | So why has WHO headquarters , which is funded by member states to give advice on setting health policy , used its limited resources to organise a meeting for setting policy on a controversial technology , and invited as participants , with one exception , people whose only qualification is that they develop and provide that same technology ? |
| 26 | What is certain is that they discovered that electrical stimulation of some parts of the cortex caused movements in the limbs on the opposite side of the body from the part of the brain that had been stimulated . |
| 27 | One theory of the origin of ice ages is that they occur when large masses ( for example , comets ) crash down onto the Earth , throwing up vast amounts of detritus into the stratosphere which block off the heat from the Sun . |
| 28 | The limitation of these simple answers is that they suggest that the reader has a relatively , if not completely , passive role . |
| 29 | What is evident from the women studied is that they wanted and needed paid work for economic , social , psychological and personal reasons . |
| 30 | The distinctive feature of the beliefs is that they assert or imply the honour or prestige due to the group over and against another or other groups , and consequently motivate the group to achieve such honour on the field of social conflict . |