Example sentences of "is [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing a woman wants so much as to be in love , and the odds are very much against two ‘ right ’ people ever finding each other . |
| 2 | Theodore Barber of Medfield State Hospital in Massachusetts has carried out a series of experiments which suggest that there is nothing a hypnotised subject will do that a motivated non-hypnotised person will not do as well . |
| 3 | There is nothing a five-year-old likes better than being read to , although he may spend considerable time looking at books himself and may even pretend to read . |
| 4 | There is nothing a baby likes more than to see something brightly coloured an interesting . |
| 5 | There is nothing the House loves so much as a personal attack , involving a personal explanation . |
| 6 | There is nothing the adventurers can do about any of this . |
| 7 | When a stem is cut midway between nodes , there is nothing the plant can do with the stem part above the last growth or eye , and so it dies back . |
| 8 | There is nothing the matter with this , except that it ai n't so . |
| 9 | There is nothing the matter with me . |
| 10 | And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox . |
| 11 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 12 | Is , is yours a heater ? |
| 13 | Is yours a a long and |
| 14 | ‘ Is yours an attempt at disguise ? ’ |
| 15 | or is yours the one about the Dock Road ? |
| 16 | Is yours the ? |
| 17 | After his 74th minute strike , he admitted : ‘ My mum is my No 1 coach . |
| 18 | Is theirs a permanent assignment , analogous to the job of the supervisory nurse in the hospital ? |
| 19 | Is theirs an O eight one then ? |
| 20 | ‘ Is 'e a good strong lad ? ’ he asked his wife gruffly . |
| 21 | But when you have a community centre like street that is which a joint you can see the value of of of maintaining it as a a paid for as a a a erm and be substantial volunteer input that exists . |
| 22 | The arrangement of things into classes , such as the class metal , or the class man , is grounded indeed on a resemblance among the things which are placed in the same class , but not on a mere general resemblance ; the resemblance it is grounded on consists in the possession by all those things of certain common peculiarities ; and those peculiarities it is which the terms connote , and which the propositions consequently assert ; not the resemblance . |
| 23 | The bid price is what the company will give the client , and the offer price is which the client has to buy off the company . |
| 24 | It was worth every mile , and somehow the travelling was particularly appropriate , for he is himself a travelling man , at home everywhere and nowhere . |
| 25 | But , in terms of the tragicomical life of the book , such a reader is himself a fiction , and an empty one . |
| 26 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 27 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 28 | Except that Eupolis , our narrator and celebrator of these blisses , is himself a cynic . |
| 29 | Howarth , a fellow student of Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies ( who wrote the Trumpet Sonata , Op.1 , for him ) in Manchester in the 1950s , is himself a trumpet player as well as a specialist conductor of contemporary music . |
| 30 | The debtor may then ( with the court 's approval ) make a composition or scheme of arrangement with his creditors ; but if this is not done he will be adjudicated bankrupt , and the whole of his property ( not including property of which he is himself a trustee , or — up to the value of £250 — the tools of his trade and the necessary clothing and bedding of himself and his family ) will vest in the ‘ official receiver ’ ( a public officer ) or some other trustee , and become divisible among his creditors who prove their debts . |