Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] [art] [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 If he 's dead , then someone is playing a dangerous game , and one that ca n't go on forever .
3 Someone is closing the double doors of the shrine , fastening the chain latch , and firelight flickers out dimly between the slats .
4 ‘ I think 'e 's owed that , ’ said Sprott , ‘ I think 'e 's owed a generous tribute . ’
5 The United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association , which is meeting the legal costs of the nuns ' case , was ‘ pleased and surprised ’ with the ruling that the nuns should be paid the full market price of £1.42 each for the birds if they were slaughtered .
6 The legislation will be used to back up the federal government 's high court case , due to be heard at the end of May , which is seeking a permanent injunction against the power project .
7 The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors .
8 But also with it comes erm office accommodation which is handling the clerical processing , ordering and so on of the business itself .
9 One of the most successful groups is the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society , which is managing an annual membership growth of 22 per cent .
10 The writ of habeas corpus deals with the machinery of justice , and is essentially a procedural writ , the object of which is to enforce a legal right .
11 I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 .
12 I think this might help to defuse the whole situation which is getting a little bit hot , I 've been
13 Miles too had been invited to join the Arts Council 's literature panel , an offer which was promptly rescinded after Goodman got to hear of it , and which prompted a poem for page two of It on 27 February 1967 , from Adrian Mitchell , suggesting that such an appointment would ‘ disrupt the council 's true intent which is to fill the entire interior of the Royal Opera House with tins of chunkydogmeat and the rest of England with custard of the kind which thickens and grows a skin on top ’ .
14 Mrs Mary McDonald , Diocesan President , in her address to the members , reminded us of the aims and objects of the U.C.M. , one of which is to uphold the Sacramental Dignity of Marriage and to maintain Christian values in family life .
15 According to the Archangelsk-based newspaper , Volna , Moscow radio reported that the units would be financially independent , funding themselves in part by collecting titanium scrap " which is littering the entire tundra landscape from Mezen to the Yamal and beyond , in the form of wreckage from the first stages of rockets launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome " .
16 Performance Bonus IBOA identified its concern in relation to a new Performance Bonus which is replacing the old Profit Sharing Scheme in NIB .
17 While it is a sociological question to ask about the way this came about , the image itself played an important role , one which is given an excellent analysis here .
18 Whitehall 's biggest potential ally is the United States , which is sending a large delegation to fight the ban .
19 Cut to blank screen onto which is projected an expensive jacket .
20 Plant Genetic Systems , the company which is developing the herbicide-resistant crops , has made a deal with the Hoechst chemical company which gives the latter the right to exploit the patent on crops resistant to Basta , which is in fact one of Hoechst 's own products .
21 A push button switches in the amp 's ‘ Enhance ’ circuitry , the effect of which is to condition the high order harmonics of the distorted sound , reputedly offering a less ‘ fizzy ’ tone than one might expect from a transistor amp .
22 We will halt the commercial market which is creating a two-tier health service .
23 I 'm part of the workforce which is creating the direct change in my society .
24 Meta says its problems have been compounded by the rise of IBM 's DRDA , which is seeing a tidy flow of SAG members defect to its ranks , including Oracle and Informix , who say they simply can not afford not to pick up DRDA because of IBM 's huge installation base .
25 The lease contained the normal covenants for the payment of rent , full repairing covenants , a user covenant confined to the business of ‘ home improvement contractors , ’ and the usual qualified covenant against assignment , to which is appended the following proviso :
26 This is the education system , he charges , which is producing the cultural bureaucrats who are turning the national patrimony of France into an amusement park for tourists ) .
27 One example is Opel , part of General Motors , which is building a new vehicle plant in the east costing DM1 billion .
28 The original application from Anchor , which is building a similar complex in Gateshead , was refused by magistrates in December .
29 DDE , which is targeting the traditional mainframe market , claims to have 2,500 SuperMax sites in Europe .
30 It seems an odd word until you discover that this little boy was born with a devastating skin condition which is baffling the medical world and making his young life a misery .
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