Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [verb] in [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evocative , yes , but do n't think that today 's Ireland is set in some quaint emerald aspic . |
| 2 | The shadowy figure of Abimael Guzman , subject of an essay Shakespeare wrote for Granta last year , surfaces here as Presidente Ezequiel , while the ritualistic savagery of Peru is detailed in some brief , shocking images . |
| 3 | For myself , I can not think that , for instance , the portrait of provincial manners in Madame Bovary is lacking in some particular aspect which would have been remedied had its author clinked tankards of cider every evening with some gouty Norman bergère . |
| 4 | It is a disgrace that the Royal Scottish National hospital at Larbert is included in this misbegotten scheme . |
| 5 | Lagerfeld is dressed in another black Japanese suit with different embroidery on his lapels . |