Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 2 | The answer is once they 've clenched their teeth there 's nothing you can do about it , if their tongue is there I 'm afraid it 's just hard luck . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | And the quality improvement is once we have found that we 've got a problem , how do we stop it recurring ? |
| 5 | There 's one thing that erm I sometimes do to give it colour , is once I 've taken off the outside skin of the onion , the very outside |
| 6 | Yes , there must be be a reason and as I 'm sure , I mean like like the objective , and then what you can do at this stage in the design process is once you 've got the objective then you select those themes or ideas from your what you 've done just now to support that objective , so that when you come up my objective is to convince you or my objective is to inform you then the information that you 're going to give out supports that objective . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The value of having such materials in brief and physically separate forms is that it is easier to manipulate ideas while they are still in note form than it is once you have written them out in prose . |
| 9 | The how we come to Jesus , the why 's we come to him are not the important thing , the real issue is that we come to him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This objection helps to reveal why it is that we regard a hierarchical classification as natural . |
| 12 | A good answer is that we regard the causal circumstance as leaving no room for any other eventuality than the effect . |
| 13 | Er the position of the county council is that we remain unconvinced of a need for such a policy . |
| 14 | Erm it 's it 's quite an interesting erm er , addition to the er original proposal but clearly members will need to take a view as to whether er they want erm the Environment Trust to do that but erm , er what I would suggest is that we bring back er , some final proposals from Environment Trust at the next meeting er , for members to have a look at . |
| 15 | We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ The second is that we step out to the supermarket and pick up some supplies . ’ |
| 18 | One apparent stumbling block to mounting more research is that we lack qualified people to do it or the resources to employ or deploy them , but as so often , a wider and less conventional look at the problem reveals one possible solution . |
| 19 | I think part of the reason for this collective blindness or , more accurately perhaps , this collective lack of action , is that we lack conviction that many of these problems are solvable , and we lack understanding of what actually can be and needs to be done to correct them . |
| 20 | The problem is that we lack virtually any faith . |
| 21 | The reason for not accepting what people call the social chapter , which is in reality the imposition of labour laws that would damage our competitiveness , is that we intend to keep our competitiveness and we are not prepared to lose our competitiveness against Japan and the United States , even though that is the express policy of the Labour party . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If we could say ‘ I know ’ only when we could also say exhaustively how it is that we know , it would create just as much a problem for the sophisticated philosopher as for those of us who are simpler . |
| 24 | Thus it is that we know as much as we do about the Orynthia and her voyages in the late 1830s . |
| 25 | Within the training our goal is that we know worship to be a lifestyle . |
| 26 | ‘ The problem dealing with Iranian or Lebanese Shi'ite terrorists is that we know comparatively little about them . |
| 27 | All that matters is that we know and they do n't know that we do . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |