Example sentences of "[pers pn] is a [adj] [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our minds it is a fixed pattern that is uninfluenced by variations in the animal 's personal environment . |
| 2 | It is a poor crisis that does n't generate some humour . |
| 3 | We have established that for pitch differences to be linguistically significant , it is a necessary condition that they should be under the speaker 's control . |
| 4 | If it is a possible view that section 8 is intended to put a 16- or 17-year-old in exactly the same position as an adult and there is thus some ambiguity , although I do not think that there is , it is a permissible aid to construction to seek to ascertain the mischief at which the section is directed . |
| 5 | It is a sobering thought that probably many of the parents whose children are in public care were born with capacities similar to readers of this paper . |
| 6 | It is a sobering thought that if the football season were to end now , just a third of the way through , Tranmere Rovers and Everton could be exchanging places in the Premier League . |
| 7 | It is a sobering statistic that in the twelve months either side of Owens ' triumph there were twenty-six lynchings of blacks in the USA . |
| 8 | For Lecercle , for instance , the Remainder , in its appearance as folk-etymology , is a reaction against the arbitrariness of the sign and is thus , we might say , " carnivalesque " ; equally , the matter of language is not one that can be finally brought under the rule of one sign alone , so it is polyvocal perhaps : " Language is not the systematic ordering of constants … it is a composite reality that is essentially heterogeneous " ( p. 184 ) . |
| 9 | But it is a salutary reminder that nothing less than a fully Trinitarian Christianity can stand . |
| 10 | It is a rare book that can keep me on the ground reading when the weather is good , but that is just what this little publication did . |
| 11 | It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) . |
| 12 | It is a striking fact that although the court in this case clearly adopted its paternalistic role in deciding how the child 's welfare would best be promoted , the chief emphasis was on the competing rights and responsibilities of parent and local authority rather than those of the child . |
| 13 | It is a striking fact that in mania the adult with his manifold potentialities of action and reaction reproduces the uninhibited instinctual manifestations which we observe in the euphoria of the satiated suckling . |
| 14 | However , it is a striking observation that women 's moral sensibilities are , more often than men 's , triggered by an awareness which is essentially aesthetic . |
| 15 | It is a spiritual principle that we will receive only as much as we are prepared to use . |
| 16 | To some people the fox is the worst type of vermin ; to others it is a gentle creature that has been much maligned . |
| 17 | It is a deep-seated desire that lingers from long ago . |
| 18 | It is a contagious thing that laugh , and healing too . |
| 19 | It is a liquid protein that they squeeze from little nozzles at the rear of the abdomen which hardens as it meets the air . |
| 20 | What with continual air raids ( seven times a day ) and the presence of 109 's about the place it is a logical conclusion that our chances of survival are not very high . |
| 21 | It is a real worry that evictions might take place . |
| 22 | ‘ It is a piteous shame that you did not have the civility to ask my permission . |
| 23 | Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time . |
| 24 | It is a good sign that it is now circling round nations and nationalism . |
| 25 | And it is a good thing that someone sensible should be doing so for the subject has got into the hands of theorists of the most tiresome sort . |
| 26 | It is a good thing that Graham Gooch 's integrity is beyond reproach , because anyone not knowing the full story might feel that something somewhere was not quite right ! |
| 27 | It is a good thing that I am a reasonable man . |
| 28 | But it is a good thing that we shall have an interval away from each other . |
| 29 | The very multiplicity of reasons suggests doubt ; and in romance it is a good rule that not everything should be explained . |
| 30 | It is a good book that I , I 've read through that , it 's quite an informative . |