Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [is] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 2 | The meaning is not in the words it 's in the way you say it is n't it ? |
| 3 | You know , in some countries it is against the law to put into advertisements shots that are shorter than so many parts of a second . |
| 4 | Next morning off they go to the shops she goes turns all her lights off and ignition it 's in the car she starts the car up and off she trundles coming in along . |
| 5 | In both cases the idea of purpose is only a metaphor , but we have already seen what a fruitful metaphor it is in the case of genes . |
| 6 | We ca n't really see , for instance , what help it is to the driver to know how much time he spent with wheelslip above the preset 18% limit . |
| 7 | In Northern Ireland it 's against the law to leave your vehicle unlocked and unattended even if you 're just popping into a shop . |
| 8 | This is the object of his pupil 's desire , though at present she is like the man who and for this reason Such a staff is spoken prayer . |
| 9 | ‘ At the moment she 's in the office , speaking on the phone to her mother , who had an urgent message of some sort . ’ |
| 10 | But when I come to go back she see me go the Land Rover she 's up the top waiting for me ! |
| 11 | It 's not cos you have n't got ta do it from the outside it 's from the inside . |
| 12 | to Abugally It 's near the Town Hall , it 's a the market was there so |
| 13 | The maxim on which I act at any moment is the personal rule which is guiding my behaviour — for Kant it is of the essence of voluntary action that there is such a maxim in every case . |
| 14 | ANTHONY Hopkins ' appearance on The South Bank Show is well timed — the following day he is in the running for an Oscar for his performance as the monstrous Hannibal Lecter , In Silence of the Lambs . |
| 15 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 16 | Tiny Rowland may have become a bore with his obsession over DTI 's failure to publish the report on the House of Fraser — but on this occasion he is on the side of the Gods . |
| 17 | On the Brother and Toyota standard gauge machines it 's in the centre of the carriage . |
| 18 | In Sweden it is against the law to hit a child , and there are moves to make this the case in England , too . |
| 19 | Er I think , oh god it 's on the desk down there . |
| 20 | West Lothian it 's on the side of a hill , but how hilly I do n't know . |
| 21 | Hayley I tell you what , have a word with my mother because my mother 's done it for years , always taken tablets , and I reckon this is half her problem now cos she 's got to her old age she 's on the change , and these things have affected her throughout her life now . |
| 22 | I think you , Kevin it 's on the floor yours |
| 23 | In many ways it 's worth the wait . |
| 24 | Now my Lord it 's at the beginning of October things start to go wrong in erm and as it is pleaded on the first of October er , the plaintiffs were told the , in correspondence from the bank , that the financial terms that the finances that had been approved in principal , were only going to be available if security was offered in respect of a number of properties . |
| 25 | But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it . |
| 26 | So before my work out this morning I said to Joe he 's in the bathroom . |
| 27 | This morning he 's on the road by six-thirty hoping to be at his desk an hour and fifteen minutes later , at seven forty five . |
| 28 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 29 | Accompanying the little Tsunamis on their maiden voyage will be the great Sun Dragon , now renamed the Sparc Center 2000 , the biggest beast Sun has ever tried to field and a clear signal it 's after the Fortune 1000 's distributed data centre . |
| 30 | Now thanks to regular shampooing he 's on the mend . |