Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [is] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have had a bit of an accident and the car you rented to me this morning is now a burnt out shell ! ’ |
| 2 | The dervishes looked on death from the transcendent world , and since to them this world is only a momentary separation from God , they regarded death as the union with God . |
| 3 | ‘ My elder sister is also a victim of those times . |
| 4 | My visual eye is both a joy , and a burden , for with it , and my writer 's mind , goes imagination . |
| 5 | Any game that tests my logical mind is always a winner with me , and this excellent game of Brix is top of my list . |
| 6 | My last memory is about a week before it happened . |
| 7 | Their economic survival is therefore a central element of Soviet policy . |
| 8 | Their punkish stance is probably a put-on : doubtless their dads are commodities brokers . |
| 9 | The Liberal Democrats are opposed to the basis of this review at national level we believe an opportunity has been missed or perhaps I should say ducked for the common , fair electoral system for which this country is supposedly a signatory . |
| 10 | For such a massive study to be feasible , a concordance program which picks out tokens of the pronouns along with their surrounding context is probably a necessity . |
| 11 | It has a formal , classical facade and a capacious central courtyard , its grand exterior is perhaps a paradoxical casing for the modern treasures bestowed within . |
| 12 | Building a system to play their own stuff is still a priority . |
| 13 | The strength of their conviction both in the inevitability of elites and in the certainty of their own demonstration is both a limitation and on occasion a source of penetrating insights . |
| 14 | Burns and Mary Campbell must have meandered around the estate in their courtship and the monument to their final parting is only a short distance from the battlefield and burial mound . |
| 15 | Making a pressed flower picture as a way of welcoming someone into their new home is both a charming and original idea , especially if it uses flowers from their previous garden . |
| 16 | The physics department would tell you that chemistry 's only a bit of physics anyway . |
| 17 | One would be the version to be found in the published research papers , those strange constrained pieces of writing whose conventions are as rigid as a sonnet , whose scientific account is always a set of clearly designed , unambiguously conducted and conclusive observations , building from earlier data and , in their final paragraphs , pointing the way to future experiments ( ‘ more research is needed to … ’ ) . |
| 18 | Women whose seductive sexuality is essentially a projection of patriarchal fear and a means of control are also robbed of their own expression . |
| 19 | In the later Palaeozoic a number of shark-like fish include some related to living forms , others whose zoological position is still a puzzle . |
| 20 | With some 22,000 students moving around within our city , even if one felt that a nominal sum should be paid — here I am looking after the interests of the hon. Member for City of Durham ( Mr. Steinberg ) whose lovely daughter is now a constituent of mine ; I trust that she will be sensible and know where to put her cross — it is clearly administratively impossible to handle and , given the changes in student support , that small relief will be welcome . |
| 21 | And working-class dykes and queens whose whole identity is often a conscious political expression , continued to get on with their lives . |
| 22 | Cast out by his flock , who fail to persuade him that life is merely a question of survival , Jonathan continues to pursue excellence in flight , and eventually discovers the unlimited potential of being . |
| 23 | Why is it that prejudice is sometimes a successful vehicle for comedy ? |
| 24 | Sir Michael Balcon of Ealing Studio fame , who named the policeman George Dixon in the film The Blue Lamp after his old school is also a son of the city . |
| 25 | It may be the case — I hope it is — that Borg has always been a much happier man than he has seemed , and that his resumption of his old trade is more a matter of idle curiosity about himself than it is a neurotic search for lost identity . |
| 26 | People in Western Europe , for example , rarely dispute that Jesus lived , but in Eastern Europe the denial of his historical existence is almost a canon of Marxist dogma . |
| 27 | This is because the connection between a person 's everyday experience and his conceptual background is usually a good deal more tenuous than that between , say , his everyday experience of the weather and his belief that August is a wetter month than July . |
| 28 | Former Praxsys president Tripp Blair , who like the rest of his small team is now a Sun employee , said Snoopy is near the end of its development cycle and close to going into test and verification . |
| 29 | With hindsight , we can see this loss of faith as one of the formative facts of his life : much of his subsequent thinking is precisely a ‘ search ’ for something to fill the void or , more characteristically , for a way of honestly confronting the void . |
| 30 | Our individual morality is particularly a section on morality , and that 's what concerns us . |