Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [adj] is [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It seems to me that this is a situation the reverse of liberal and even the reverse of democratic , in the sense in which the word has hitherto been understood .
2 Nevertheless it seems to me that this is a time when we have a chance to examine the utility of A levels in their present form , a chance that may have been missed by the terms of reference of the Higginson Committee .
3 It seems to me that this is a matter for the police . ’
4 But experience has taught me that this is the rule of thumb that can be most profitably proposed and acted upon .
5 Well , on the para four job evaluation erm it seems to me that this is an item that can be fed into the , would automatically be fed into the evaluation process .
6 name name dropping the supporters I mean for to those Tories telling them that the that the association for county councils for example is a backer probably counts more than telling them that that is a backer .
7 Hamer USA told me when I spoke to them that this is a custom option and not featured on the standard Sunburst models .
8 How can he , or anyone else , convince them that this is a province worth coming to ?
9 Community nurses need to feel they can trust Council to act for them and their patients in directing the development of the profession , but unfortunately , his episode will do little to persuade them that this is the case .
10 You tell them that this is the card that they have freely chosen .
11 but it , but it maybe , it it would seem to me if that is a consideration of yours , that might be something that you reflect upon in y in your report , but it is it is not a necessary er requirement that , er that be part and parcel of this particular E I P .
12 As the law stands now , at eighteen , an adopted young person has the right to trace his natural parents , and to make contact with them if this is the desire of all concerned .
13 Eventually , Russia will sell the nuclear armaments to any country who will pay for them and that is the beginning of the end of the world .
14 Well if you remember what it is , let me know and I 'll buy the shopping from them and that is an influence for me .
15 I would remind you that this is a counter-espionage matter which means it 's strictly an MIS and Special Branch affair . ’
16 Books which give rules of punctuation will tell you that this is a mistake .
17 I have to tell you that this is a contradiction in terms .
18 My difficulty , however , is not just to show you that this is the case but rather to show you just what is the case !
19 I would remind you that this is the budget for the policy .
20 I was engaged to be married once , an engagement that was a mistake and I was lucky to get out of without too much trouble and then I met you and that is the sum total of my ‘ sexual demands ’ as you put it .
21 Rees Jones says people have told him that this is a golf course for intellectuals … which means you have to think everytime you a play a shot and that 's what he set out to create
22 Similarly , tapping the dog firmly on the nose may also persuade it that this is a game , and it will continue with such behaviour .
23 But if you 've got er four hundred and eighty million pounds missing and you 're saying that pension fund managers should er pay a third of it and this is a pay as you go scheme rather than a funded scheme of compensation , how many pension fund managers do you think would be able to cough up their third ?
24 Yet if we are going to approach language as isolated artificially constructed sentences , even if only occasionally and for limited purposes , we do need to make a case for this , and not just do it because that is the tradition : in the mother tongue classroom , for the foreign language learner , or in linguistics .
25 Had we known about it because this is the sort of thing we could of gone
26 The characteristic ‘ oily ’ smell immediately tells us that this is a cone of Shetland pure wool .
27 Section er , I was very surprised indeed that er Hilary asking for a review of the service because in fact all one 's experience and I am sure as well tells us that this is a success story , it is something that petition after petition that we 've asking to keep it that way , shows that it is one of the services that the County provides which is very much appreciated by the recipients and we ca n't say that in all County Councils ' services but you can say it about er the section seventeen and I think you ought to acknowledge that Chairman .
28 It was obvious to the rest of us that this is the path she would take once the heat had blown over — such actions are part and parcel of everyday life in America .
29 Rossythe is no different we stand to lose eighteen thousand plus training facilities for the whole of Scotland but we 've just been told of recent that a new nuclear waste dump is to be built at Rossythe could you tell us if this is a forerunner for the subject of closing Rossythe down with a loss of all these jobs ?
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