Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [is] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say it is just the Asian way . |
| 2 | It 's what they say it 's just the whole business of looking at lectures for the British National Corpus . |
| 3 | And and people say it 's sometimes the only er money tha that a mother wo gets that she can call her own and and use in the way that she wants to . |
| 4 | … These circumstances create what is perhaps the administrative dilemma . |
| 5 | With people who 'd be have nothing to do with the music business or just you know it 's just the social er the social life you know . |
| 6 | But it does secure what is surely the central and most important point , by removing the possibility of unintended consequences for the libraries . |
| 7 | ‘ In the space of a couple of days local politicians have succeeded in dashing the hopes of thousands of anglers , and I feel it is just the thin end of the wedge . |
| 8 | Well I do n't think it 's just the real in fashion what they 're gon na wear it 's only really Mr that is not interested in it |
| 9 | Yeah , well I mean it 's always the unexpected |
| 10 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 11 | Er on the envi environmental aspect , I think it 's worth emphasizing because clearly this is the major concern of both Scotton and er the Residents ' Association and er that the County Council has and perhaps to some extent I think it 's certainly the public consultations or the exercises I 've been involved in at this stage in a major scheme has done far more work in trying to assess those effects than is normally the case at this stage in a ma major highway scheme . |
| 12 | I think it 's absolutely the right way to go , and I think that one of the things that the English Tourist Boards are doing , which is quite right , is to make people more aware of their classification and grading schemes . |
| 13 | The attraction of this option is that it would neatly sidestep what is now the main stumbling block to the road , American public opinion . |
| 14 | In general , the wider ( and often cheaper ) choice of credit types which is opened up by monthly-paid bank accounts seems to us to be , on its own , a big enough advantage to outweigh what is really the temporary awkwardness of change to a new set of habits . |
| 15 | Frenchman Clement Ader 's bird-winged Eole may have been the first aircraft to take off under its own power ( a 20 hp steam engine ) in 1890 , but never really flew , lacking natural stability and any control system — though Ader did invent what is still the French word for an aeroplane : avion . |
| 16 | Oh I see it 's just the front loose . |
| 17 | Since 1977 , when I first published what is still the only British book on the subject ( Modern First Editions : Their Value to Collectors ) , collectors have become more and more attracted to contemporary writers ; in this latest edition I list 281 twentieth century authors in whom there is currently the most interest , 115 of whom are alive and well and regularly producing new offerings which the hopelessly dedicated completists are obliged to add to their earlier rarities . |