Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 2 | And as often as you tell yourself she 's not your type , that you do n't like blondes , your taste tends towards the browns , even redheads but not blondes , no ; and what 's more , her face is round , but you do n't like round faces ; and you 've always gone in for a bit of shape and she 's flat as a pancake . |
| 3 | And as she 's five and a bit weeks old , it 's five weeks |
| 4 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 5 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 6 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 7 | Four : she 's straight and a mummy . |
| 8 | She said that she 's shocked that an organisation can behave this way . |
| 9 | One parent says she 's angry that the school did n't tell her the whole truth about why the head left . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's tougher than the rest of us put together . |
| 11 | ‘ But she makes nice chocolate cake and she 's handy when the cook 's on holiday , ’ she admitted as she examined her face in the shine . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | She is fourteen and a half , and still in pretty good shape . |
| 14 | We are back with appropriateness of response : a mother who has difficulty in feeding her baby may persist , because she is anxious that the baby should be properly fed , in prolonging a painful experience beyond her own and the baby 's endurance . |
| 15 | LIBERAL Democrat candidate Rosamund Jordan has said she is concerned that the developer of a proposed five-a-side football complex at Claiville Common , Middlesbrough , seems reluctant to go ahead without a licensed bar . |
| 16 | I have got two children and I 'm hoping to go to college when my youngest daughter is three cos I ca n't get her , ca n't go until she is three cos the creche wo n't take them until they 're out of nappies and three year old . |
| 17 | He/ she is conscious that the way in which Jesus is presented is crucial . |
| 18 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 19 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 20 | It 's curious that the Bloch Symphony for trombone and orchestra is rarely played — one would have thought that trombonists , starved of repertoire , would air it at every opportunity . |
| 21 | It 's fantastic that the boy is back . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah you see it 's bigger cos the bedroom |
| 23 | It 's freezing and the pitch is rock hard . |
| 24 | But it 's due and the farm accounts wo n't take it . |
| 25 | Fifth thought : shit , this is the turret of the Cathedral ; and it 's dark because it 's late and the floods have gone off . |
| 26 | I 'll go and make the sauce , then I 'll have a bath while it 's simmering if the generator 's up to it . ’ |
| 27 | And the early reading of P P G seven it seems to me it 's apparent that the principle messages are that the development in open countryside should be strictly controlled , and I would underline that point strictly controlled , and that the countryside should be safeguarded for its own sake and non-renewable and natural resources should be afforded protection . |
| 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 | The commission says it 's adamant that the public will have the final say . |
| 30 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |