Example sentences of "[coord] [det] is [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , an oddness of one sort or another is frequently a signal that an expression is being used creatively , in a novel extension of its usual sense . |
| 2 | On the cover Horowitz himself beams at us like a naughty gnome , and that is just the way his irrepressible musical personality comes over in the performances . |
| 3 | And that is just the kind of order , it seems to me , which ought to have been granted if the plaintiffs ' contentions are correct . |
| 4 | Of course Kirillov is anything but a normal human being ; and that is just the point . |
| 5 | And remember , every time you breathe out , you are adding even more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and that is also a greenhouse gas ! |
| 6 | And that is also the view of our planning consulta er of our highway consultant . |
| 7 | That is our intention , er we are organizing briefing sessions for officers , and taking an approach which we want to get the information distributed to the workplace and that is clearly an area that we wan na develop . |
| 8 | So it was believed that a pronunciation change in one word would be followed by changes in all similar words — that there are laws of language evolution — and that is generally the case . |
| 9 | He could walk out and just be so good and that is probably the thing that most impressed me about him . |
| 10 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 11 | A London spokesman for Mr Bond said yesterday : ‘ He has intended all along to meet his commitment to BSB , and that is still the situation . ’ |
| 12 | It , it 's a domestic policy , hands off , it 's got nothing to do with international trade at all , it is purely a domestic policy and that is essentially the argument that is erm , prevented agriculture erm , from sort of slipping through the GATT net . |
| 13 | After the latrines , a wash of hands and face , but no shave because shaving is done by the barber and that is once a week with the bath . |
| 14 | On the basis that a lot of the big houses that were doing holiday accommodation and so on , er have have already been converted and this is our experience , so on that basis we have taken a reduced figure for conversions and that is basically the reasoning behind it . |
| 15 | There is simply no way he would have been accepted for training in our Church — and that is perhaps a tragedy . |
| 16 | And that is perhaps the way they all want it . |
| 17 | Treaty , depending on the case , and that is certainly the position where a national of a member state goes to reside in the territory of another member state and establishes his principal residence there . |
| 18 | You have had an enthusiasm and a willingness and a loyalty and a dedication to Napier that is our hallmark and that is certainly the mainstay of our success . |
| 19 | All I reckon we can do is be grateful for the good service , as you say Tim , and get on with what 's left — and that is quite a lot . |
| 20 | and that is quite a thing , ha |
| 21 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 22 | Day continues : ‘ Very few outlets would warrant more than one product , and that is usually a lager , so ale brands find it quite difficult to get in-trade distribution . ’ |
| 23 | When you do all the sums and move all the money from pocket to pocket it looks as if there is an increase of between 2 to 2.5 per cent and that is almost the difference between the previous inflation forecast of 3.5 per cent and the present inflation forecast of 5.75 per cent . |
| 24 | I do n't think I 'll bother to answer the remarks that others need to say of course tremendous resources have gone into the health service over the past few years , but I think whatever government is in power , it will never be enough for all the new developments in the health service , and that is always the trouble , whoever would be there would find it difficult . |
| 25 | ‘ Hilary , ’ he broke in gently , ‘ you 're soaking wet , cold , upset , and this is neither the time nor the place , but there was a reason — ’ |
| 26 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 27 | A more aggressive attitude , of course , might counsel strategic acquisition and this is clearly an approach favoured by such major European publishers as the Maxwell Communications Corporation , Bertlesmann , Hachette and others . |
| 28 | Another area addressed by the survey was the additional assessment , which is a feature of all general SVQs at levels II and III , and this is clearly an issue of concern to some centres . |
| 29 | From this definition , assignments of choses in action are excluded and this is also the case with money . |
| 30 | At this stage in the play , Anderson displays concern not to infringe the Politeness Principle and this is also the case in scene eight . |