Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If someone is innocent and the Press starts printing stuff , the other partner may think ‘ Well , they must have done it ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Some see the distinction in terms of a commission which is unlawful and an omission which may not be . |
| 3 | To read the instructions which is paramount and every firework has instructions on . |
| 4 | A mosquito probably registers about ten or twenty decibels , and this could be very annoying if you were trying to sleep and one was buzzing around you , but in our trade we 're normally talking about a level of perhaps sixty or seventy decibels which is tolerable and the sort of noise perhaps we 're making at the moment . |
| 5 | It conforms to the detailed historical evidence which is available and the occurrence of mergers in waves instead of as a continuous process undermines the statistical assumptions on which the former analysis is based . |
| 6 | Rainwater is relatively clean , but at the moment , it falls down drainpipes into the sewage system and is treated which is costly and the water is lost . |
| 7 | And as she 's five and a bit weeks old , it 's five weeks |
| 8 | Four : she 's straight and a mummy . |
| 9 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
| 10 | The principle was confirmed at the Eighth Congress of the International Association of the Arts held in Baghdad in 1976 : ‘ Works by living artists exhibited in or on public buildings , galleries , museums and other public sites and which continue thereby to provide a service to the public should be subject to a continuing form of remuneration to their creator ( comparable to performing rights for theatrical or musical works paid to author and composer ) so long as he or she is alive and the work continues to be a public amenity ’ . |
| 11 | She is fourteen and a half , and still in pretty good shape . |
| 12 | The girl who is black and the daughter of working class parents faces at least a triple disadvantage compared with a white middle-class boy . |
| 13 | The appeal relates to two children : a girl , E. , who is six and a boy , C. , who is 2¾ . |
| 14 | Her mother said : ‘ My son , who is two and a half , has slept in the cot before with no problems and she has always been alright in it . |
| 15 | ‘ I have but one child who is stubborn and a liar , and that is Marie , ’ she would tell strangers or neighbours . |
| 16 | Clare , who is 30 and an art tutor , attended the presentation ceremony at The Mall Galleries , London last week . |
| 17 | In conclusion I would say that the book itself is good and the style is brilliant , as you are able to see things so well through the eyes of Finn . |
| 18 | She needs to find someone or something to blame for the catastrophe that has overtaken her , so she looks for reasons , because she may not yet be ready to face up to the extremely anxiety-provoking fact that life itself is unpredictable and the world is an insecure place . |
| 19 | They are forced to face a firing squad in the prison court-yard and predictably , one is sober and the other is steaming . |
| 20 | One is life-giving and the other is measured by the absence of life . |
| 21 | In this field there are two common ideas , of which one is true and the other is false . |
| 22 | One 's one and a half . |
| 23 | That one 's two and a half . |
| 24 | two , there 's two and a half |
| 25 | I , I erm , I was off the west co er on a holiday to the west coast of Ireland and we erm we 're driving down the west coast and there was like some rocks and everything about , so we stopped and , you know , I looked by a rock pools or something , and there 's this and the rock pool is like mini-swimming baths , they were , you know , probably |
| 26 | It 's freezing and the pitch is rock hard . |
| 27 | But it 's due and the farm accounts wo n't take it . |
| 28 | it was all to do with recognising it was the middle of the winter , sun was at it 's lowest and the sun would be coming back again , and maybe that 's some sort of gut feeling |
| 29 | Well I suppose that 's not bad , it 's over four , it 's four and a half |
| 30 | It 's impossible and a waste of time . ’ |