Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone 's made a right pig 's ear of them , and that 's a fact . |
| 2 | ‘ I think 'e 's owed that , ’ said Sprott , ‘ I think 'e 's owed a generous tribute . ’ |
| 3 | Still , ideas that the reflective pronoun herself and the item anyone which is called a negative polarity item , the item anyone needs to have something else in the sentence in order to license them they ca n't just occur freely in the normal position for er nouns , even though they are nouns . |
| 4 | When a record turns out to be a synonym , there are two alternatives : these are to store the synonym at once , in which case the process is called a one-pass load , or to load it in two passes , which is called a two-pass load . |
| 5 | European president Ninian Eadie is continuing to manage ICL 's personal products , and now includes the company 's mid-range systems in his portfolio , which is considered a natural step given the movement towards client server systems . |
| 6 | The only valid context for physical sex is marriage , by which is meant a permanent relationship , publicly acknowledged and entered into with mutual promises . |
| 7 | From what you said on the phone , she 's kept a low profile too , which is lucky . |
| 8 | She 's developed a steady business and a strong social life at her church . |
| 9 | This may reflect a difference in emphasis in that parents seemed to be looking for information about their child 's overall character and behaviour ( eg ‘ good at sharing toys ’ ) whereas staff seemed to report specific good behaviour ( eg ‘ She 's done a lovely painting this morning ’ or ‘ He ate his dinner up nicely today ’ ) . |
| 10 | She says she 's made a special cake and wants us to help eat it up . ’ |
| 11 | But she 's made a miraculous recovery , and has now been allowed home . |
| 12 | She 's invited a close friend she wants us to meet . |
| 13 | A girlfriend of mine had the bags under her eyes removed but , two years later , she 's acquired a new set . |
| 14 | and she 's took a whole lot of Mandy and Neil ! |
| 15 | She 's delighted a local team has won . |
| 16 | Now she 's started a local group . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's taken a long time to throw off the illness and is still not fully fit , ’ said Sheppard 's Milngavie and Bearsden coach , Alex McNeil . |
| 18 | She 's paid a hefty £10 million for Braselton ( population 300 ) in Georgia ! |
| 19 | Toni Halliday said she 's learned a great deal about women from men , ‘ and some men are able to write about the women we dream of being . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Because she 's retained a nai¨ve faith in human nature . ’ |
| 21 | A four year old girl who 's undergone a revolutionary heart transplant operation has spent her first day at school . |
| 22 | But one MP , who 's taken a special interest in the problem says the sentence is n't tough enough . |
| 23 | Linda Townley , who 's fought a three-year battle with a national newspaper , made a plea for legal aid to be extended to those with no money to sue for libel . |
| 24 | When she outgrows her cot , it is important for her developing limbs and back that she is given a new bed , not a hand-me-down that has been shaped by somebody else 's body . |
| 25 | Londonderry mother Frances McGinley said today she intends to camp outside the Waterloo Street Housing Executive office until she is offered a suitable house . |
| 26 | As soon as she is married and enters her husband 's family and clan group she is considered a potential source of danger , because her sexuality remains still incompletely controlled and its beneficiality as yet not proven through child-bearing . |
| 27 | 3 Each member who is given a Compulsory Sale Notice shall sell all of his shares referred to in the Compulsory Sale Notice at the highest price for the same class per Selling Share to be sold to the Proposed Purchaser on Completion by the Seller . |
| 28 | Everything is given a metaphorical sex , and never shall the two sexes overlap . |
| 29 | Under the rational conventions of the cycle of the seasons there is revealed a subversive world where the sensual and violent creation of new life is enacted . |
| 30 | I do n't think I 've heard him speak before , he s got a great Yorkshire accent for a Welsh lad . |