Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is that nothing actually went wrong . |
| 2 | Part of the problem of having a broken human nature is that we easily deceive ourselves . |
| 3 | Our attitude , and I think it 's a totally principled and right one , is that we already have services which are statutory services which we do not provide adequately . |
| 4 | The down side is that we probably have the toughest Xmas/New Year you could image ( excluding Crewe ! ! ) . |
| 5 | My feeling is that we probably need to create a set of interlocutors on a regional basis who can have the right kind of influence on EC regional and social policies . ’ |
| 6 | The main problem is that we rarely know what we really want . |
| 7 | The problem here though and the show is quietly and very deliberately subtitled ‘ Lesbians take photographs ’ is that we rarely see a pairing of two sleek , longhaired and long-legged blondes . |
| 8 | One honest booklet on food and health explains , ‘ The main reason why there are conflicting views about the effect of food on health is that we simply do n't know all the answers yet . |
| 9 | I am , however , open to reasoned and informed argument and I await with interest your correspondents ' blueprint for reversing our economic decline , bearing in mind that the stark choice is that we either increase our earnings or we accept a quite considerable reduction in our living standards . |
| 10 | Most likely of all is that we partially trust one another , and each play some mixed sequence of COOPERATE and DEFECT , ending up with some intermediate sum of money . |
| 11 | The fact is that we still have a great deal to learn about the skills that animals use to find their way around their own home ranges and to travel the globe . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's disturbing is that we still have quite a narrow industrial base , ’ said Mr Scott . |
| 13 | similarly no information held in-house relating to those companies should be assessed , ie the principle to adopt is that we only access information available in the public domain . |
| 14 | Yet the paradox is that we only use the word hypocrisy when we have reasons for believing that we have found the thing itself . |
| 15 | The effect on our own accounts is that we now show all the mainstream activities of the Council together , and they are then separated out from the entries for all the other funds , appeals , and trust funds and so on . |
| 16 | One reason for being hopeful is that we now make machines which do some of the things that brains do , although we must remember that there may be important ways in which brains and existing computers work on different principles . |
| 17 | But , the strength of this particular is that we now know an awful lot of about one another . |
| 18 | One common occurrence , as a consequence of this obsession with secrecy , is that we now have a system of government by leaks . |
| 19 | ‘ The result is that we now have a more sensitive version of the traditional pig-sticker , which is ten times more accurate than the old tool in testing and calculating the hardness or softness of clay . ’ |
| 20 | A piece of hot news is that we now have an offer from BR to visit the Shrewsbury signal box on the 6th of April , though the number of visitors is limited to twenty . |
| 21 | As a result with good control of working capital , our cash flow overall was virtually the same as in the previous year in spite of the significant profit collapse and although there may be some further redundancies this year , I do n't expect them to be in any way on the same scale as during nineteen ninety two and the important thing is that we now have costs in line with the lower level of revenue as we look into nineteen ninety three . |
| 22 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 23 | They 've actually gone from a full service back to this level because this is what they 've found is what people need and obviously this is surely what we should be able to do , erm I think that you know by providing the extra ten thousand my concern now is that we actually make sure that our offices are fully covered here . |
| 24 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
| 25 | I mean , for example , the French , my impression is that we actually offended De Gaulle quite considerably during the war in terms of his pride as a Frenchman |
| 26 | The notion of an avant-garde sensibility here functions simply as the ‘ other ’ of existing television ( just as much of the most interesting experimental video refunctions existing television as its other ) , a point outside the discourse of actually existing television from which we can argue about what it is that we actually want . |
| 27 | The difficulty with this sort of material is that we often do not know if the coins have been acquired on a random and thus representative basis . |
| 28 | What is strange is that we often accept the opposite : that large benefits naturally carry with them large risks . |
| 29 | One in particular is that we currently lack a theory , or theories , of an alternative process . |
| 30 | Our problem is that we always separate love from justice and love from holiness . |