Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [is] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you prefer to eat soft cheeses when they begin to be runny or at a slightly earlier stage when they are chalkier is simply a matter of personal taste . |
| 2 | If you do notice something unusual which you are sure is not a software problem , then you should take a careful look for the cause or things will just get worse , possibly with more serious consequences . |
| 3 | That planning has been poor is more the fault of the economy than BR , the high interest rates at the end of 1989 being seen as likely to repeat the recession of 1981 out of which we climbed so painfully . |
| 4 | Slowly , as I 'm afraid is always the case . |
| 5 | The time at which these two factors must be present is when the statement is made . |
| 6 | For example , ( a ) damage to paths , is also caused by walkers , witness the problems of erosion on many popular tracks ; ( b ) the passage of cyclists requires walkers to step aside ( ! ! ) — this and para ( c ) sound really churlish , I might almost say childish , and give the impression of an RA membership composed entirely of geriatrics — which I 'm sure is not the case . |
| 7 | Indeed this emerges immediately from the fact that adjectives which are plainly non-restrictive can accompany proper names : ( 4 ) the eloquent Dryden is too learned for some tastes clever Polly left before they called for volunteers Even if we accept the view , less than universally supported , that proper names do have meaning , being clever is certainly no part of the name Polly on the type level , nor is eloquence of the name Dryden . |
| 8 | Now , though , I am saying that being reasonable is partly a matter of falling in with the conventions — in time and place — of an intellectual form of life or culture ; and this surely raises the spectre of relativism . |
| 9 | All eyes of course will be on Cheltenham where John Taylor will be trying to prove that being black is not a bar to becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament . |
| 10 | Being married is probably a hindrance . ’ |
| 11 | Being Fat is not a Sin , by Shelley Bovey ( Pandora 1988 ) talks about the prejudice and oppression suffered by fat people , particularly women , and about ways to feel good about yourself which do n't involve losing weight . |
| 12 | But being nice is hardly a virtue , you know . |
| 13 | The conclusion that could be drawn from this argument is that is not a phoneme of English , but is an allophone of several different vowel phonemes when those phonemes occur in an unstressed syllable . |
| 14 | That is that is where the migration projections have come from . |
| 15 | That is that is always a danger . |
| 16 | Well that 's that 's when the tax man starts getting fishy and you 've got to know |
| 17 | That 's that 's when the trouble is . |
| 18 | Because er it 's a that 's that 's just the way it has to be for the present , at the end of the |
| 19 | Well that 's that 's why the gas , gas and electric |
| 20 | Yeah , I mean that 's that 's not a problem any more . |
| 21 | So that 's that 's quite a lot , if it 's an investigator , which of course it may not be . |
| 22 | We 'll look , we 'll actually look at the processes of deep water formation tomorrow , so you 'll actually see how the waters are formed , but the reason why this is high is basically the act of A , low biological activity removing it and B , the fact that the source waters have not come from below , they 've come in horizontally from an area where they were formed which was very rich in oxygen . |
| 23 | No this this is this is just a maths paper . |
| 24 | Now the probability of any one step being positive or negative is ½ , so that the probability of having , say , r positive steps and n — r negative ones is This is not the probability of arriving at the point m = r = ( n-r ) =2r-n , however , since the successive steps may be taken in different ways . |
| 25 | The thing is this is n't a credit card is it ? |
| 26 | Let's let's get rid of this is this is where a lot of the confusion is |
| 27 | I think that 's a bit more mod really , thing is this is more the sort you had is n't it ? |
| 28 | Yeah it is this is how the Sun did it . |
| 29 | What is crucial is simply the existence of the second vote , which secures fair representation for all but the very smallest of parties . |
| 30 | However , if good and this property are simply the same thing , then the judgement that what has this property is good is just a tautology , and can not serve as the kind of important value judgement it is meant to be . |