Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she meets other animals , walk on and ignore her — as she is timid of strange people , I think this will overrule her aggression towards a strange dog , and she will catch up very quickly . |
| 2 | This passage shows Leapor enthusiastic about the prospect of financial success while she is critical of certain attitudes toward money . |
| 3 | She is frightened of some noises — like the vacuum cleaner — but does n't bother at all when I use the lawnmower or hedge-cutter . |
| 4 | This is most probably because she is unsure of lasting love in a marriage . |
| 5 | A PR executive thus needs to be placed so that he or she is aware of all issues , policies , attitudes and opinions that exist in the organisation that have a bearing upon how it is perceived by the organisation 's publics . |
| 6 | It is tolerant of most water conditions , although very hard water may result in the fish 's eyes becoming cloudy . |
| 7 | It is reminiscent of circular interiors like S. Michael at Fulda in Germany . |
| 8 | I mention this incident because it is typical of Burmese friendliness and hospitality , and during the retreat many people like myself experienced similar kindliness . |
| 9 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 10 | Er the House of lords is not a particularly passionate place but er nevertheless it is capable of strong feelings and er I do n't think it it expressed a fairly clear opinion on this occasion . |
| 11 | Like alcohol or money , it is capable of vast abuse by those who exploit it for financial purposes . |
| 12 | It is capable of 200 MIPS and 25 MFLOPS . |
| 13 | The basic requirements for the grant of a patent are stated in section 1(1) of the Patents Act 1977 as follows : A patent may be granted only for an invention in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied , that is to say — a ) the invention is new ; b ) it involves an inventive step ; c ) it is capable of industrial application ; d ) the grant of a patent for it is not excluded by subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) below … |
| 14 | We do not know what the staying-on rate will be until the autumn , and it is capable of further revision during the year . |
| 15 | It is understandable of any man . ’ |
| 16 | It is incapable of much agility , and its part should be as simple as possible . |
| 17 | Shanken goes on to argue that the factor analysis methodology may be manipulated by merely recombining a given set of securities and that therefore on its own the factor model is inadequate as it is incapable of economic interpretation . |
| 18 | It is true of these wholes that if they remained otherwise the same , except that the pleasure was removed , they would only have at most a slight value . |
| 19 | It is true of any family , especially today , that it is not a desirable situation to have an elderly parent living with younger child . |
| 20 | The plant is not particularly decorative ; it is native of southern Europe , and Asia to India and grows in temperate to warm regions in North America . |
| 21 | It is characteristic of fixed capital that it has an assumed lifespan — without taking into account the problem of technological obsolescence — and therefore its replacement may be said to be time-proportional . |
| 22 | However , it is characteristic of quantified patterns that they can conceal what lies behind them and so they can be interpreted much more deeply than in this unilinear way . |
| 23 | It is characteristic of theoretical linguists that they select example sentences that computational linguists would categorise as pathological . |
| 24 | It is characteristic of convergent designs by human engineers too , of course . |
| 25 | ‘ We can achieve such reforms on Lebanese soil once it is free of any conqueror imposing his will on it , ’ the general said last night . |
| 26 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 27 | But an employer can legally sack you or your partner if he can prove it is disruptive of other work relationships , it could harm business or that it affects job performance . |
| 28 | It is full of surprising mathematics . |
| 29 | It is full of syntactic parallelism and other kinds of schematic patterning , as the following display shows : |
| 30 | The argument is frivolous firstly because conceptually it is full of elementary mistakes , the primary one being the equation of ‘ sexuality ’ with ‘ gender ’ . |