Example sentences of "[adj] and [pers pn] [is] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | will er the the younger people will be encouraged to start to accept this and it is a change in our thinking , that it , I find it difficult as well . |
| 2 | But while you 're here leave it covered like this and it 's a bit . |
| 3 | By snubbing Napoleon III , Bismarck made the provocative nature of his policy quite clear and it is a measure of how confident he felt that he scarcely bothered to conceal it . |
| 4 | But if the polls are wrong and it 's a fight to the finish , the verdict may not be known until the West Coast results are in . |
| 5 | He 's kicking 50 years old and it 's a bit manic . ’ |
| 6 | That 's a dog lost from Bulwell on Sunday morning it 's a Jack Russell with er long hair it 's white and black and it 's twelve years old and it 's a bitch , seven five two seven nine O if er you can help there . |
| 7 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 8 | Billed as the Wedgwood Group Carnival Day 1993 and It 's A Knockout , one of the main attractions will include a pottery antiques roadshow with valuations by expert Peter Williams , author of ‘ Wedgwood — A Collector 's Guide ’ . |
| 9 | They know what areas they 've got to cover in maths or English and it 's a question of their motivation . |
| 10 | The tone of these programmes tends to be relentlessly promotional , but the occasional clip might be useable and it 's a source worth investigating if you are short of materials . |
| 11 | The only money they put in to the chief executives and their two yearly pay re review performances that they get , for cutting other people 's wages or contracting Health Services and for somebody to have to travel that distance for a , to die , is absolutely appalling and it 's a disgrace . |
| 12 | ‘ My older son would like to make friends , too — he gets so bored and he is a bit jealous of the baby . |
| 13 | Their activities are perfectly normal and it is a pity that adults are sometimes over-ready to become uptight about it . |
| 14 | ‘ There are days like that and it is a matter of making sure you are in the right place at the right time . |
| 15 | But there is a cost of that and it 's a cost that people will recognise . |
| 16 | It 's as stark as that and it 's a nonsense . |
| 17 | Souness said : ‘ Paul 's strong and he 's a competitor . |
| 18 | ‘ The whole situation is quite frightening and it is a matter of taking precautions without arousing too much concern with out neighbours or families . |
| 19 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | It 's black and it 's a board . |
| 21 | In fact this is more interesting than you may think because female hyenas have a pseudo-penis , they have , they have a pseudo-scrotum and a pseudo-penis , reasons which are n't fully understood and in order to mate , the male has to insert his real penis into the female pseudo-penis in order to reach her her genital and it 's a bit complicated . |
| 22 | This event last occurred in 1928 and it is a measure of the immense volume of water released that there was flooding on the Punjabi Plains , more than 800 miles away . |
| 23 | Yes , I , I 'd give you two , one is my favourite of all shrub roses which is Fantan la tour which has what one can only describe as loosened sort of shaggy shell pink flowers with the most exquisite perfume , it 's a , it 's an untidy flower like the old shrub roses really should be the best of them erm and a very pale shell pink , a wonderful variety , not particularly repeat flowering , relatively short flowering season but so wonderful when it is in flower and the other one , er she says she does n't like red , now is n't really red , it 's a very very deep reddish purple and it 's a variety called Tuscany Superb and I grow Tuscany Superb in my garden alongside er some fennel , a foliage fennel plant and the feathery fennel together with , almost the aniseed aroma of the fennel together with these deep deep purple flowers of Tuscany Superb is absolutely wonderful , it 's actually on the edge of my herb garden . |
| 24 | This is important and it is an issue which we will address in the coming chapters as we attempt to separate out the problems for both users and their community and whether the source of the problem is with heroin use or its legal and social status . |
| 25 | I think I am only saying that anyone who has followed the history of this controversy over the last twenty years will already see reason to think that the friction produced by quarrelling among good causes is enormous and it is a luxury that we simply can not afford . |
| 26 | Sir , I do n't think I 'll go to the Grand next week , I 'm getting susceptible and it 's a bit bewildering when there are eight and all in one troupe . |
| 27 | SMOKEY ROBINSON has been singing and writing his love sings since the age of 13 and it 's a whole three decades since he had his first hit . |
| 28 | She ca n't help hating me because I 'm single and she 's a widow . ’ |
| 29 | They are always cheerful and it is a pleasure to work with them . ’ |
| 30 | These things are pretty big and it 's a shame to waste such a large resource of petrochemicals . |