1. Translate the following sentences:

1) The only basis on which the deal could be described as a success is if the true objective was the avoidance of fight between the EU members.

2) What is important is whether a country’s resources are fully and effectively utilized and developed.

3) What these facts mean is that there is something basically wrong with the system.

4) What is not certain is whether the improvement is continuing sufficiently fast.

5) The most striking thing about the rise of the Chinese economy is that it has been so rapid.

6) What is most depressing is that some people tend to believe these lies about the all-round corruption of the government officials.

7) The idea the party wants to convey is that the dogmatism was just a phase the Tory once went through.

8) The reason I do not have a mobile phone is that I don’t want to be at someone else’s beck and call 24 hours a day.

9) It seems as if the Prime Minister was right in describing the situation as dramatic and requiring urgent actions.

10) The question is whether the EU members are prepared to accept such state of affairs.

11) The problem is not that consumers are short of funds, it’s that they are short of certainty about the future.

12) Bush’s real problem was that his foreign policy had very few allies at home.

13) One of the things that is clear is that the environmental data do not fully explain what we are seeing.

14) The biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we’re the only ones suffering from it.

15) One of the most common complaints from exporters was that banks lack adequate

understanding of their customers’ needs.

16) The greatest problem is what purpose the new military base will serve should a major war break out.

17) What the speech of the PM really shows is that the pause in the negotiations which are now expected to resume at the defense-minister level is a temporary one.

18) My belief is that what the British are prepared to do is to have military planning that is potentially separable but not separate.

19) The trouble was that Western leaders had never intended to do more than drop a few bombs in Kosovo.

20) It does not take a psychologist to figure out that around age 40, which some baby boomers have already hit, is when youthful dreams yield to reality.

Time clauses

After, as, as long as, as soon as, for, just as, once, since, before, by the time, when, while, until/till, the moment (that), whenever, every time, immediately, the first time, the last time, the next time

I. Choose the necessary word or expression. Open the brackets:

1) I’m not leaving until/ by the time I (finish) this job.

2) He promised to phone while/ the moment he (arrive) in London.

3) He had answered the calls as soon as/ by the time I (come).

4) We’ll have the conference when/ while the exams (be) over.

5) You can go home whenever/ before you (want) to.

6) They were talking as soon as/ while we (watch) the film.

7) Tom came home just as/ till Mary (leave)

8) We went to sleep after/ until we (eat) our meal.

9) By the time/ Until I (arrive home), George had already left.

10) Tell Jane I’ll call her by the time/ as soon as I (have) some news.

11) Ann didn’t buy a car until/ since she (save) enough money.

12) We had been waiting for six hours until/ by the time the train (get) into the station.