Example sentences of "and [noun prp] is [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The wind is about Force 4 here and Ken is using a large sail . |
2 | The fall is real enough ( remembering my earlier distinction between real and literal , p. 36 ) , and to take out the story of Adam and Eve is to make a terrible hole in the gospel . |
3 | And IBM is financing an ambitious project by a young Californian company , Patriot Partners ; it would let software companies write programs compatible with OS/2 and Unix , an operating system with similar capabilities originally created by AT&T 's Bell Labs . |
4 | flying high in California is hanglider Pete Harvey from Milton Keynes … the world championships have just got underway and Pete is leading the British challenge … last time out the team won gold … |
5 | Before I can summon up some energy , we 've parked near the Old Dungeon Ghyll and Gordon is hoisting a huge frame rucksack onto his back , packed with his Hasselblad medium format camera and various other photographic gizmos . |
6 | Many of these are drab little fish of minimal significance in the hobby — but surely , no-one wishes to see any species go extinct , and Derek is performing a remarkable service in keeping these going alongside his more lucrative fish . |
7 | I am sure myself that Europe is stronger when Britain , France and Germany are working together , and Britain is paying a full part at the very centre of the European community . |
8 | Persons to whom we have been introduced are exceedingly kind and John is acquiring a vast fund of information in the ornithological department , which must , I think , prove interesting to the lovers of that science . |