Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin .
2 The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent .
3 And Biddy is as hard-working as ever .
4 She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established .
5 Indeed , Eusebius is quite explicit and quite emphatic about the importance of monarchy : ‘ Monarchy excels all other kinds of constitution and government .
6 The VT is commonly non-sustained but sometimes persists long enough to provoke syncope , or even death if ventricular fibrillation supervenes .
7 Despite the fact that the contribution from the Ukraine is far smaller than originally envisaged , fifteen institutions in all agreed to lend pieces from eighteen ancient cultures ranging from the Neolithic to the Byzantine .
8 Instead it demonstrated that Scotland is profoundly conservative and still possesses a robust and apparently irreducible Conservative and Unionist vote .
9 Also known as Fachen , Fachin , or the Diereach , this evil monster from Scotland is so ugly that simply looking upon one could result in death from heart failure .
10 Although geographically a part of continental Europe , Denmark is ethnically Scandinavian and originally its cattle were similar to those of Sweden and Norway .
11 I feel its failure every time I read that the polarisation of the two main religious communities in Northern Ireland is more extreme than ever .
12 ON THE transatlantic phone from a Dallas hotel room where she 's having a rest from touring America as support to the Lemonheads , Juliana is often forthright and sometimes evasive , giving short , sharp answers to my silly questions .
13 Jupiter orbits the Sun well beyond the orbit of Mars , and though the solar radiation at Jupiter is about 25 times less than at the Earth , Jupiter is so large that only Venus , and Mars at the most favourable oppositions , outshine Jupiter in our skies .
14 The extent of party unity in the Commons is very high and very rarely do any substantial number of MPs stray from the fold .
15 Lola is very powerful and very sensitive and she goes through a lot of changes .
16 Jesus is obviously literate and well educated .
17 Seven years younger than her husband , Vera is now 65 and also suffers from injuries caused by beatings .
18 Torrance , 39 , believes he is still good enough to make next year 's European Ryder Cup team and said : ‘ People might think I 'm too old but Ray Floyd is over 50 and still winning .
19 Their skills in running clinics and providing comprehensive PHC is far broader than just ‘ mini ’ doctors .
20 They both also have greater historic cultural identities ; Teesside is comparatively young and only recently can we say it has produced a generation of indigenous people free of lingering Geordie and Scouse strains .
21 Doctor Pike is quite certain that under normal circumstances — he did n't say he did in this instance — that he would describe side effects and dangers .
22 CSC is much cheaper and more flexible than video conferencing , which requires special rooms and expensive phone lines .
23 I do not suggest that , just because Britain is less violent and less prone to crime than most other west European countries , that diminishes the necessity to concentrate on the picture at home , but let us not frighten people unnecessarily by comparisons with the rest of Europe and the United States .
24 As regards the presence of outposts of overseas companies in this country , it has been observed that though ‘ the British economy is not dominated by foreign investment , the foreign presence in Britain is highly visible and statistically important .
25 MORALE in Britain is so low that nearly half the population would emigrate if they could , according to a survey .
26 I do not suggest that practising in Continental Europe is either easy or necessarily profitable .
27 The pluralist approach is repeatedly criticised ( and not just by Marxists ) for its neglect of ‘ objective factors ’ , and Pizzorno adds to this with his charge that Banfield is both superficial and culturally inaccurate .
28 But scientists from the European Space Agency dissuaded them , and Hipparcos is now trouble-free and fully funded .
29 Prince Charles is more respected and better loved than he realises .
30 Prince Charles is more respected and better loved than he realises .
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