Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [is] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 2 | Next morning off they go to the shops she goes turns all her lights off and ignition it 's in the car she starts the car up and off she trundles coming in along . |
| 3 | In both cases the idea of purpose is only a metaphor , but we have already seen what a fruitful metaphor it is in the case of genes . |
| 4 | We ca n't really see , for instance , what help it is to the driver to know how much time he spent with wheelslip above the preset 18% limit . |
| 5 | This is the object of his pupil 's desire , though at present she is like the man who and for this reason Such a staff is spoken prayer . |
| 6 | ‘ At the moment she 's in the office , speaking on the phone to her mother , who had an urgent message of some sort . ’ |
| 7 | It 's not cos you have n't got ta do it from the outside it 's from the inside . |
| 8 | The maxim on which I act at any moment is the personal rule which is guiding my behaviour — for Kant it is of the essence of voluntary action that there is such a maxim in every case . |
| 9 | ANTHONY Hopkins ' appearance on The South Bank Show is well timed — the following day he is in the running for an Oscar for his performance as the monstrous Hannibal Lecter , In Silence of the Lambs . |
| 10 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 11 | Tiny Rowland may have become a bore with his obsession over DTI 's failure to publish the report on the House of Fraser — but on this occasion he is on the side of the Gods . |
| 12 | Er I think , oh god it 's on the desk down there . |
| 13 | Hayley I tell you what , have a word with my mother because my mother 's done it for years , always taken tablets , and I reckon this is half her problem now cos she 's got to her old age she 's on the change , and these things have affected her throughout her life now . |
| 14 | Now my Lord it 's at the beginning of October things start to go wrong in erm and as it is pleaded on the first of October er , the plaintiffs were told the , in correspondence from the bank , that the financial terms that the finances that had been approved in principal , were only going to be available if security was offered in respect of a number of properties . |
| 15 | But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it . |
| 16 | This morning he 's on the road by six-thirty hoping to be at his desk an hour and fifteen minutes later , at seven forty five . |
| 17 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 18 | Accompanying the little Tsunamis on their maiden voyage will be the great Sun Dragon , now renamed the Sparc Center 2000 , the biggest beast Sun has ever tried to field and a clear signal it 's after the Fortune 1000 's distributed data centre . |
| 19 | Now thanks to regular shampooing he 's on the mend . |
| 20 | What a different man he is on the page ! |
| 21 | In previous Wembley appearances Norman has proved what a tremendous asset he is to the team . |
| 22 | The case and conversation details will all be completely anonymous , so no one will know who has used the words or whose voice it is on the tape , but together they will provide a permanent record of how the English language was spoken in the nineteen nineties . |
| 23 | if the horse is travelling fast on the road he 's at the trot , I mean it is n't |
| 24 | I think that the hon. Gentleman knows that in the first instance it is for the mineral planning authority to decide whether to revoke the planning consent for extractions and whether such action is warranted . |
| 25 | In the Welsh hills , where the Severn still looks like a river and not the characterless drain it is in the middle and lower reaches , there was ice on the road , and this slowed us down considerably . |
| 26 | Down off the holder it 's on the sink ready with the the toothpaste on it . |
| 27 | In the classical version , we are manipulable only through threats or appeals ; in the positivist it is through the alteration of mechanistic causal variables . |
| 28 | Alright , mother 's alright , she 's on top of the world she is at the moment , nothing of her , but , she seems to be struggling through it all . |
| 29 | You are by means obliged to cast in your lot one hundred percent with any critics-made category , though it is well worth while when your book is still an idea vaguely moving in your head to decide what sort of a book it is on the whole . |
| 30 | We 'll probably take this on paper , so the reason it 's on the agenda is to tell you as a department that we 've had this sent to us , erm we 've got a meeting later this week to actually sit down and analyse it and to put something on paper to send up to command . |