Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [is] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ she said , ‘ but would you know which is the nearest big police station in this area ? ’ |
| 2 | The pleasantly incoherent CIA/FBI mindgames-in-the-desert thriller White Sands may be stronger on visuals than plot or dialogue but it does allow Willem Dafoe and Mickey Rourke to bounce off each other moodily in an attempt to discover who is the bigger existential dude . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't know about that , but I do know it 's the only good look I 'm going to get for months so I 'm making the most of it . ’ |
| 4 | THE New York marathon turned out to be exactly what they say it is the greatest sporting spectacle in the world . |
| 5 | That 's right , just say it 's the thirty one one ninety four . |
| 6 | I find myself in some difficulty in that the statement I have prepared does not debate the merits of the inner and outer routes , but merely the question of is there a need for a relief road er and what are the benefits that the particular relief road er that we are currently promoting which is the outer northern , whether that is is sufficient to demonstrate that it is meeting a need . |
| 7 | But Vicky Cooper says she 's the official carnival queen . |
| 8 | He says he is the best young goalkeeper by far in all the North-East clubs . ’ |
| 9 | Heg says it 's the right wan . ’ |
| 10 | Mother says it 's the good fresh air on the moor that makes them so hungry . |
| 11 | Calder Publications says it is the only authorised publisher of the title and will have its own hardcover edition available in the spring . |
| 12 | Compaq Computer Corp says it is the first major personal computer manufacturer to receive a 1993-1994 US General Services Administration Schedule contract , which runs to March 31 1994 and makes it easier for the federal government to buy Compaq products at pre-set prices . |
| 13 | A useful text to have when writing anything is The Complete Plain Words , originally by Sir Ernest Gowers , published by HMSO ( Fraser , 1983 ) , from which the above examples of filler words are taken . |
| 14 | Well he reckons it 's the thirty first now |
| 15 | Iberia reckons it is the first European carrier to offer flights from America to third countries . |
| 16 | I 'm told it 's the 43rd single release off the album they said they 'd split up after if it did n't outsell Guns N' Roses ( or something ) . |
| 17 | Visiting teams from the Soviet Union , United States , German Federal Republic and France all stare bemused on arrival , and they become even more astounded when told it is the only indoor facility in the country . |
| 18 | When one studies the literature one finds that , surprising as it may seem , the weight of legal opinion is in favour of the second view ; and it is not even clear what is the proper legal means that the Crown should use to establish misbehaviour before dismissing a judge . |
| 19 | Police in Northumbria believe it is the first such attack on a house . |
| 20 | ‘ The settlement is the result of two days intensive negotiations and we believe it is the best obtainable in the Royal Bank in the present climate . ’ |
| 21 | But , perhaps sensing dangerous moral and political overtones , they add ( ibid. , p. 634 , quoting Taft ) : ‘ It is not the task of the criminologist to determine what is the major social good ’ . |
| 22 | When they considered social and economic factors they saw themselves as detached scientists just ‘ presenting the facts ’ and not ( as Taft ( 1942 , p. 634 ) put it ) aiming ‘ to determine what is the major social good ’ . |
| 23 | That 's a that was difference yo you end up voting , you end up actually voting who 's the nicest human being , not |
| 24 | Peter Black , whose Daily Mail colleague Shaun Usher had voiced reservations , wrote , ‘ Raymond Allen 's Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is the best visual comedy I 've ever seen on TV . |
| 25 | Red Hand may think he is the only sane man around here . ’ |
| 26 | Do n't think it 's the same young woman . |
| 27 | also newcastle fans have two HUGE flags which they transport around the ground , everyone lifting the flag around — i think it 's the only english club iv'e seen doing that — you see this kind of flagging from time to time around europe ( even up here in Trondheim ) |
| 28 | I think it 's the twenty fifth . |
| 29 | Think it 's the twenty fifth . |
| 30 | I think it 's the twenty first |