Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ms Hannah Soo is already raised and conversant , ’ said the ambience . |
| 2 | It goes without saying that his accomplishments did not match his campaign rhetoric — taxes were increased , the state budget more than doubled while he was in office and there were no significant reductions in the size of the state workforce yet his ‘ record in Sacramento is generally regarded as favorable ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Sekula is best remembered as vice-premier in the same government . |
| 4 | He has shown himself as a devoted family man ; Ms Campbell is twice divorced and childless . |
| 5 | Birmingham is still declaimed as smoky , grimy , unpleasant and philistine . |
| 6 | By the mid-Eighties , Americans had started to speak of a black ‘ underclass ’ : now , one-third of the black US is officially classed as poor . |
| 7 | The poems are intended to be read aloud as in the late middle ages , a period to which Darras is keenly attracted because national and linguistic boundaries had not yet hardened . |
| 8 | But Miss Hannah Hauxwell is neither daunted nor overwhelmed . |
| 9 | Jaggard is best remembered as joint publisher and printer of the First Folio of Shakespeare ; printing was completed in late October or early November of 1623 , around the time of his death ; he is named in the colophon , but the title-page ( probably printed last ) names Isaac , who on 4 November became printer to the City of London ‘ in the place of William Jaggard his late Father deceased ’ ( Guildhall records : Letter Book JJ , fo. 51 ) . |
| 10 | The work of William Acton is usually seen as representative here . |
| 11 | SACRISTON entertainer Brenda Collins is often billed as Little Miss Dynamite for her role as singer-comediennne , a description which could also apply to her everyday life . |
| 12 | ‘ The economy in the U.S. is gradually recovering but economic prospects in the UK and much of the rest of Europe are less encouraging . ’ |