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 | So she is about the same age as her stepson . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This week she is at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen , near Oswestry , where she is undergoing an operation on her arm . |
| 7 | Moody , sensitive and sometimes secretive she is at the same time a little girl needing to be cuddled and a teenager requiring her own space . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As ‘ Billy Blaze ’ , the adventure begins when your babysitter is kidnapped by Aliens from Fribbulus Xax , she is on the main menu for dinner ! |
| 10 | She is past the normal age at which women retire and she is entitled to a railcard . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | She is in the good news business and a master of the art . |
| 13 | ‘ Even then , ’ says one of the filmmakers , ‘ Breathless was dramatically different than she is in the final script . |
| 14 | ‘ I would like to do something to help like bringing her home but I know she is in the best place . ’ |
| 15 | She was his youthful mistake : she is in the past tense . |
| 16 | A good hire shop will ensure that the equipment if loans you is of the highest quality , that staff will show you how to operate is , if necessary , and full operational and safety instructions will be issued as standard . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | So it is with the financial servant and its industrial master . |
| 21 | It is with the greatest pleasure that I wish to throw a large bouquet in their direction . |
| 22 | Just how consistent it is with the prevailing relationship of disabled people to our able-bodied society comes clear when you look at some of the many questions which can be raised . |
| 23 | It is with the latter sort of crime fiction that those of us who enjoy writing comedy will have most to do . |
| 24 | Thus it is with the apparent conflict between religion and science . |
| 25 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 26 | It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning : when one encounters them , one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness . |
| 27 | And it is with the statistical evaluation of leys that there is most controversy and where much work still needs doing . |
| 28 | So far only the pulsed dye laser produces parameters that approach the theoretical ideal , and even then it is at the lower limit of the ideal pulse duration ; Tan et al have shown that this laser can successfully treat children of any age with a negligible chance of scarring , and our experiences confirm their findings . |
| 29 | It is at the sentencing stage where formal strategies are most often to be found . |
| 30 | For this session the Celebration room has to be the sacred place it is at the integrated session . |