Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her religious sensibility is much nearer to that of the affective Franciscan devotion just as his is to the Dominican tradition of speculative thought . |
| 2 | If it is n't dated , how can you tell if yours is from the golden period ? |
| 3 | My report has to be on Ken Hurren 's desk before theirs is on the Prime Minister 's screen . |
| 4 | Yeah , and it 's erm like our other one , she used to go hunting up there and she 's across the main road |
| 5 | No , but he seemed to be great , he said , he said well he said to , to me he said she 's with the real thing and she wants to go for it |
| 6 | Round the centre of rotation it to the spoke while she 's up the other spoke . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's on the front line , ’ he said and it was n't meant to be enigmatic . |
| 8 | It 's two and a half miles from door to door and there are buses later on , but if she 's on the late shift and just misses one , Joelle is faced with another long walk if her mother ca n't pick her up by car . |
| 9 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 10 | She 's about the only person that even Crumwallis is reluctant to employ . |
| 11 | If Kylie is happy with her work , she considers she 's over the main hurdle . |
| 12 | She 's trouble , she 's of the other sort . |
| 13 | Meyer proved she 's in the right sort of form by winning the 1,500m in the Western Province Championships at the weekend in a very respectable 4min 07.90sec , running alone for most of the race . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's in the surgical ward , ’ Ian said . |
| 15 | If she dislikes all outward signs of mourning , wanting people to wear their normal clothes and for the proceedings to be very quiet and simple , that should be for her to decide , but if she is of the old school , who prefer mourners to dress rather sombrely , you should try to persuade the rest of the family to do so whatever their personal opinions may be ; although care must be taken not to cause friction over this or anything else which may sour the family gathering . |
| 16 | This week she is at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen , near Oswestry , where she is undergoing an operation on her arm . |
| 17 | This woman inhabits several time spans at once : she is no less at home with the whirling world of angels and demons than she is with the cordless phone and the digital clock . |
| 18 | As ‘ Billy Blaze ’ , the adventure begins when your babysitter is kidnapped by Aliens from Fribbulus Xax , she is on the main menu for dinner ! |
| 19 | She is past the normal age at which women retire and she is entitled to a railcard . |
| 20 | There is hardly any chance of her surviving as she is in the long term so we hope she will be able to have the transplant soon . ’ |
| 21 | She is in the good news business and a master of the art . |
| 22 | ‘ Even then , ’ says one of the filmmakers , ‘ Breathless was dramatically different than she is in the final script . |
| 23 | She was his youthful mistake : she is in the past tense . |
| 24 | Another monument to him is in the main square of the city of Cebu in the central Philippines , a canopy with the kind of gaudy murals one expects in this flamboyant tropic city . |
| 25 | 20 But while he thought on these things , behold , the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream , saying , Joseph , thou son of David , fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost . |
| 26 | I said , ‘ For God 's sake , Desmond , hire her a television , ’ but he said no because we 're not well off , not well off at all , and we 're having to keep her , she has n't offered a penny , not that we 'd accept of course , and anyway Desmond said there was n't any point because if we got her a television she 'd think of something else , want to play cards or something , and that would be worse — and he 's right , it would , because a game of bridge with her is like the cold war all over again . ’ |
| 27 | So , for the moment , our problem is not with the Navy observers who are directing the naval guns , it 's with the increasing number of guns firing over our positions from the direction of the River Orne . |
| 28 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 29 | But you just said it 's down the bottom end ? |
| 30 | It 's Of the total amount you 've spent in the last year , both on your own , how much have you spent at the main It does n't ask you how much you spent anywhere . |