Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] [verb] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is that everybody understands the idea of having diarrhoea and it is not pleasant , but you do not die from it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A good answer is that we regard the causal circumstance as leaving no room for any other eventuality than the effect . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid the fact is that we had the finest guitarist in the world and we did n't recognise it . |
| 11 | The feeling is that we had the idea , which was the crucial element , and anybody could manufacture the product , but that is not true . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The key is that we take the issue seriously . |
| 14 | God 's goal for every Christian is that we develop the character of Christ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You see the thing is that we want the economy to pick up . |
| 18 | In this process the danger is that we destroy the inner reality of that which we appear to be preserving . |
| 19 | Erm the overall picture as you can see in June is that we revised the budget to show at this moment if this trend continues a deficit of two thousand pounds . |
| 20 | One of the great pleasures of the north-east is that we attract the second-largest amount of outside investment after Wales . |
| 21 | You know , you can grow bananas in Scotland if you want , the reason why you can do that is that we have the technological know-how in order to do that . |
| 22 | The other even more pressing reason is that we need the cash ; we 're running an overdraft and that 's not funny with these interest rates . ’ |
| 23 | Erm , our best estimate is that we need the six hundred and eighty six thousand that we 're committed to , plus another two hundred and seventeen thousand in terms of additional staff to deal with the additional demand as it comes in . |
| 24 | The trouble with our system is that we overdo the disqualification and pay insufficient attention to requalification . |
| 25 | What erm happens is that we obtain the toxin from erm from the from a serpentarium . |
| 26 | Goldman 's suggestion is that what made the belief true in the Gettier case is not what caused Henry to believe it . |
| 27 | A weakness of many low-cost colour inkjets is that they use the colour cartridge to produce black by applying 100 per cent cyan , magenta and yellow . |
| 28 | A feature of all these quotes is that they conflate the social and the personal ; Vicky , for example , argues that the arts are ‘ a waste of taxpayers ’ money' and then says ‘ I could n't motivate myself to do it ’ . |
| 29 | Perhaps some component of Pascal 's restless questioning was due to his displacement through recurrent ill-health , but what makes his questionings still worth reading , is that they confront the foundations of our existence and that despite the fact that he is sometimes seen merely as a Catholic apologist . |
| 30 | ‘ Sure they miss the money , but one of the most important things is that they miss the buzz . |