Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is my 23-month-old granddaughter giving her fond father a real smacker to wish him a happy birthday — they say there 's nothing quite like a baby 's love ! |
| 2 | Soft and sophisticated , there 's nothing quite like the look of crisp , cool white . |
| 3 | x on it , ‘ there is nothing intrinsically in the hardware that requires Solaris 2.1 . ’ |
| 4 | It is perfectly true that there is nothing conclusively in the poem to make us identify the first stair with Dante 's Inferno , the second with his Purgatorio , the third with Paradiso ; as there is not ( a more piercing uncertainty ) anything to determine for us whether ‘ the broadbacked figure drest in blue and green ’ , with his ‘ music of the flute ’ , is an image of what must be renounced in order to achieve Paradise , or else an image of how terrestrial life can most nearly attain the paradisal . |
| 5 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 6 | Oh , but there is nothing quite like a hansom cab — as it shakes from side to side , throwing us against each other , deliciously … |
| 7 | And that 's a , and that 's them all over the country , not only Edinburgh , all over the country , in north south east and west and you name it . |
| 8 | Joe Jordan , a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists , says women should not allow doctors to carry out such examinations unless there is someone else in the room or close by — normally a nurse , relative or friend . |
| 9 | And there 's nobody else in the picture so we 're totally concentrating on him . |
| 10 | I think there 's somebody else at the door now . |
| 11 | There 's plenty wrong with the world right now , but it 's all we 've got , and the only way forward is to face up to it . |
| 12 | ‘ Is somebody else in the house ? ’ |
| 13 | The aesthetic form of presentation is itself part of the reinterpretation . |
| 14 | As the quote from Guttierrez shows , the struggle to build a just society is itself part of the process of salvation . |
| 15 | But to implement these policies requires winning political power , and therefore the debate about the future of the underclass is itself part of the debate about the future of left politics in Britain . |
| 16 | His paper is , therefore , partisan — it does not pretend to be other and it is itself part of the discourse in support of psychodynamic theory . |
| 17 | So it 's , it 's a year , er what , what part of the course has , has Jana come in on — the first year or is she somewhere in the middle ? |
| 18 | Second , there is something right about an argument which holds , as does the argument from error , that for the very same sort of reason that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat , you do n't know , e.g. , that The Times will be published tomorrow , nor whether you are sitting reading . |
| 19 | I could find no memorial at all for 1939–45 , though there is one elsewhere in the town . |
| 20 | Sprays produced by taps and showers also produce fine aerosols and here the person at risk is one close to the source of aerosol production . |
| 21 | There 's one actually at the bus stop by the Police Station and there 's another one on the corner of the erm just before you turn into Terrace there 's there 's a free standing one outside the shop there . |
| 22 | I think there 's one still in the fridge actually . |
| 23 | Run ! at me but the message is n't getting through , there 's something else in the way , something else pulling me back , back to Andy and back to that frozen river bank ; I hear Andy crying out and I can still see him reaching towards me and he 's about to slip away from me again and I ca n't do anything … but I can , this time I can ; I can do something and I will . |
| 24 | Oh my God , there 's something else in the room . |
| 25 | It 's something there in a magazine the other week there . |
| 26 | ‘ Beauty palls after a while — unless , of course , there 's something deeper beneath the surface to hold the interest , ’ observed Lucenzo laconically . |
| 27 | Robyn is rather less generous with the next supplicant , a young man who broke his ankle falling off his motorbike on New Year 's Eve , but even the least deserving candidate gets a few days ' respite , for Robyn tends to identify with the students against the system that assesses them , even though she is herself part of the system . |
| 28 | ‘ Is there much of a beach ? ’ |
| 29 | Nor is there much in the fairness argument , although this is the reason offered by 46 per cent of the people interested in PR . |
| 30 | Oh , I know we 've no certificates , but we 're both quite good — you really dance jolly well , and it is n't likely that there 's anyone else at the game . |