Example sentences of "is [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | We are told that " the reason why constituencies of about five members are recommended is that they form communities [ ? ] where electors may be expected to have sufficient personal knowledge of the candidates ' . |
| 4 | The importance of these stored finds is that they form a research collection available for study by archaeologists and others , and some are used for travelling and temporary exhibitions , and in teaching collections on loan to schools . |
| 5 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 6 | Their specific significance is that they form a crucial element in what has been called the ‘ self-production ’ of modern societies . |
| 7 | The disadvantage is that they require a transformer to step down the voltage , which either means fairly expensive fittings ( incorporating the transformer so they can replace existing fittings ) , or expensive wiring from a central transformer to the light fittings — low voltage means high current , so the wires have to be much bigger than normal lighting wiring . |
| 8 | One feature of prison rules as published in most administrations is that they require different provisions for different categories of prisoner . |
| 9 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The trouble with modern textiles is that they use synthetic dyes and the colours do n't look right in an old setting , ’ Patsy says . |
| 11 | HI-FLI and AFLI are almost the same , the only difference is that they use high-resolution , and can therefore only use up to three different colours ( rather than one ) within a char . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The main drawback with both types is that they use special paper which can be expensive and is only available in rolls which can make storage difficult as the printer does n't produce separate pages . |
| 14 | Our experience of the average guitarist is that they know what they want and they wo n't be fooled into buying fresh air simply on the strength of a good review ! |
| 15 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 16 | The fact is that they know from their own experience that many of their contemporaries take drugs occasionally and do not become addicted . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The great skill of Japanese and German manufacturers is that they know how to make things efficiently and well , which is what we are so bad at . |
| 19 | Where they do differ is that they know a great deal less about the properties of social and psychological phenomena than do the natural sciences about the properties of the natural world . |
| 20 | Erm , yeah the important thing is that they know . |
| 21 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 22 | What I really love about these guitars — the 12-strings especially — is that they 've been set up with the lowest , most buzz-free actions imaginable . |
| 23 | The main reason our children try drugs is that they 're searching for pleasure , and the main reason they carry on is that they 've found it . |
| 24 | ‘ Easy , ’ I replied , ‘ You see , the things about the Americans is that they 've absolutely no CLAAAARSE . ’ |
| 25 | The latest from Aussie tats MR FLOPPY , whose single , ‘ 100,000 Morrisseys ’ has taken everyone by surprise ( not least the band who split up soon after its release ) , is that they 've decided to re-form The band , who described The Stone Roses as , ‘ A bunch of Pommie scum who ca n't play and flounce around in flares ’ , will celebrate with a new EP , tentatively entitled ‘ Tubular Bells ’ . |
| 26 | The latest from Aussie tats MR FLOPPY , whose single , ‘ 100,000 Morrisseys ’ has taken everyone by surprise ( not least the band who split up soon after its release ) , is that they 've decided to re-form The band , who described The Stone Roses as , ‘ A bunch of Pommie scum who ca n't play and flounce around in flares ’ , will celebrate with a new EP , tentatively entitled ‘ Tubular Bells ’ . |
| 27 | Their problem is that they 've lost five hundred pounds . |
| 28 | The key reasons before that is that they 've actually put the across in the way that 's not totally compatible with learning side . |
| 29 | What that obviously means is that they 've drawn from a very , from a very wide area and therefore , they , they 've got the long , main industrial estate , which has thirteen factories , of which only three are occupied , and ten which are unoccupied , which are erm , in fact deteriorating . |
| 30 | It 's not it 's not the point of the money it 's the fact is that they 've lied to me erm and really I want =em . |