Example sentences of "is [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After you have mimicked , always listen again to each utterance so that the last thing you hear is him/her and not yourself . |
| 2 | ‘ This is me since I got up , ’ she said . |
| 3 | ‘ Woe is me that Edward 's kinsmen , plucked from his side during his first moments of kingship , lie now in the dungeons of Pontefract ! ’ |
| 4 | Marianne is me ; Eleanor is me as I ought to be . |
| 5 | ‘ The woman is me and I love you , ’ said Jay . |
| 6 | In fact , I went to a couple of record companies and said , ‘ This is me and David Bowie ’ . |
| 7 | All I remember now is me and Lucy . |
| 8 | Whereas if you think well you know this is , I 'm doing this but I do n't know whether this is me and I do n't feel very comfortable with it and all that |
| 9 | Me This is me and Philomena . |
| 10 | Do n't have to talk about an just a good chat you know just I do n't want to I do n't want to talk about good people or all about that I do n't want to talk about that I want to talk I want to talk to that person out there who will feel now that it is them that I am I am appealing to I am appealing I now . |
| 11 | It is them that I am appealing to somebody because of the erm the the th thought transference that I am using is feeling now compelled to pick up the phone O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 12 | ‘ And even though most would have been quite happy to get where I had got at that age , I believe that a man is nothing unless he believes he has greater possibilities . |
| 13 | It may be that he really thinks there is nothing that he really thinks . |
| 14 | From the point of view of the experiencing subject , the meaningfulness is not something of which he is conscious ; all he experiences is , first the word ‘ red ’ , then a mental image : there is nothing that could count as his internally and introspectably associating them which does not reintroduce the mysterious generality of thought . |
| 15 | But Professor Alan Budd , chief economic adviser to Barclays Bank , said of the Government 's predicament : ‘ In the short run there is nothing that can be done . |
| 16 | When the markets go against you there is nothing that can stop it until the market adjusts . ’ |
| 17 | She knows there is nothing that is more attractive that the promise of sexuality waiting to bloom , and so if this is what is responsible for fame , Kylie wants to keep her pre-puberty looks . ’ |
| 18 | With a fictional character , described in the third person , there is nothing that may not be said . |
| 19 | There is nothing that can exist without me . |
| 20 | Hardly a word had passed between them but now the gunman looked up and said quietly , ‘ There is nothing that I can do . ’ |
| 21 | There is nothing that matters to finish ! |
| 22 | There is nothing that will make you a better surfer . ’ |
| 23 | It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do . |
| 24 | People have to die at last , and there is nothing that anybody ( even doctors ) can do to alter the fact . |
| 25 | There is nothing that tells the truth about us , as Christian people , so much as our prayer life . |
| 26 | I remember ‘ laying down a fleece ’ that I would not proceed towards the ordained ministry unless the Lord enabled me to lead another to Christ before a certain date : there is nothing that concentrates the mind as such an agreement with God ! |
| 27 | It proves to them that it is their situation which defeats them , not themselves , and there is nothing that anyone can do about it . |
| 28 | There is nothing that is infinitely irresistible nor that is truly immovable , and as for the idea of a ‘ substance impossible to contain' — that , I decided , was a fiendish invention designed to get me into a muddle as I was sure that such a substance would be a manifest impossibility in practice . |
| 29 | ‘ There is nothing that can not be coped with by the co-operation of captains and the vigilance of the umpires . |
| 30 | Anthony Berry , son of Francis , says , ‘ There is nothing that I would not enjoy drinking today . ’ |