Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [is] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think it would spoil everything for you , when you realise he 's just a boring , pushy young fellow with an ego the size of the bullring . ’ |
| 2 | Opponents say it is primarily a military road . |
| 3 | Some say it is just the Asian way . |
| 4 | It 's what they say it 's just the whole business of looking at lectures for the British National Corpus . |
| 5 | And again as I say it 's rather a nice erm picture which erm er was given to me some time ago . |
| 6 | They say it 's not an ideal situation . |
| 7 | And and people say it 's sometimes the only er money tha that a mother wo gets that she can call her own and and use in the way that she wants to . |
| 8 | Many consumers are against it : about three out of ten say it 's never a good thing , and most others see it as an occasional necessity rather than as having positive advantages ( see Appendix I , Main survey ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I realise it 's principally an obstetric issue at this stage , ’ Tom was saying , ‘ but from the point of view of her diabetes the advantages are all on the side of delivering now . |
| 10 | And I imagine she 's not a forgiving woman at the best of times . |
| 11 | Well I hope it 's not a blue tummy . |
| 12 | Hope it 's not a new one . |
| 13 | ‘ I hope it 's not a military convoy after us , ’ said Mick . |
| 14 | I hope it is n't a mortal sin , for your sake . ’ |
| 15 | I mean she 's only a little doll is n't she . |
| 16 | Look it 's just a wee light . |
| 17 | He 's , well not necessarily made his mind but you can suggest that he might , may have done and also it seems that Alfiera is slightly half hearted in the way he erm like tries to convince Eddie cos it seems that i it , I get the feeling that Alfiera already knows and just thinking well there 's no point in getting really het up about it , so he , he tries , he says look it 's not a good idea but in the end |
| 18 | Look it 's not the cheap that you 're looking for . |
| 19 | No I jest it 's not a good idea . |
| 20 | ‘ We know it is n't a gang-related thing . |
| 21 | I am happy for you to see this , though as you know it is now a privileged document . |
| 22 | " I know it 's not a good place , but Fiver and this other half-sized fellow you 've got here — they 're pretty well all in . |
| 23 | ‘ I know it 's not a good way to go about things , ’ said Peter . |
| 24 | I like certain things ragged right for example , or fairly simple pages , but erm you can look back at the sixteenth century and find extremely simple pages , you know it 's not a modern idea and the thing is that most of the eddies and currents of popular graphic design are little stylistic exclusions that never go anywhere . |
| 25 | I know it 's not a sharp one but nevertheless , you do n't , scrape |
| 26 | We believe that it would be more sensible if a proportion of the compensation would be met by people like pension fund managers if for no other reason that it would encourage them to er keep their own house in order erm and you know it 's not a bad er principle to operate in these areas . |
| 27 | I know it 's not an easy question to ask you but |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't really want to imagine what they were like but I know it 's not an intense thing for him to do like Platoon was . |
| 29 | I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another . |
| 30 | you know so I , I you know you know it 's just a peculiar |