Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [is] [adv] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they were in vogue she could not abide them : ‘ What beats me is when an unsentimental artist like Modigliani says : ‘ Oui , très joli ’ about them . |
| 2 | They say it 's not an ideal situation . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I realise it 's principally an obstetric issue at this stage , ’ Tom was saying , ‘ but from the point of view of her diabetes the advantages are all on the side of delivering now . |
| 4 | In its undigested state , this voluminous competitor information , 90 per cent of which is publicly available , may be vaguely interesting and occasionally intriguing , but however glittering it is essentially an unusable and potentially dangerous resource . |
| 5 | ‘ Literary sensibility ’ is easier to recognize than to define , but it is analogous to having an unusually good ear for music , and has something in common with the creative faculty , even when the critic who possesses it is not an imaginative writer . |
| 6 | I know it 's not an easy question to ask you but |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't really want to imagine what they were like but I know it 's not an intense thing for him to do like Platoon was . |
| 8 | I say gentleman , but I suppose he is just an official thug . ’ |
| 9 | Although it has been electrofished I believe it 's not an efficient method of removing the smaller fish in the 4–5 oz bracket . |
| 10 | I believe it 's quite an important part . |
| 11 | Some people feel it 's not an appropriate use of the cash , that Gay and Lesbian art should n't be given such a high profile . |
| 12 | Any anyway , I appeared there , this was interesting because , being a friend , I did n't swear on the Bible , it 's something that 's not brought up in these notes , you do n't think it 's quite an important thing , really , so the Clerk of the Court , with his bible , would you , you know , repeat this . |
| 13 | I mean it is n't an easy thing |
| 14 | I think he is just an ill and shocked young man with the highly strung temperament of so many artistic people . |
| 15 | In its present form it is substantially an early eighteenth-century building , and now serves as a local nursing home . |
| 16 | Also , if a woman at twenty-six is still a virgin it suggests she is not an overemotional type . |
| 17 | According to Greenpeace activist Joe Thornton , " using oil to make a tyre and then burning it is not an efficient use of resources " . |