Example sentences of "is [pron] [adj] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing illegal in this method , to my knowledge anyway , but I avoid it because to me it seems like cheating . |
| 2 | Some countries operate five-year plans but there is nothing sacred about this length of time . |
| 3 | There is nothing sinister in this case . ’ |
| 4 | The existential sentence strongly suggests that there is nothing metaphorical about this experience for Lok . |
| 5 | There is nothing covert about this operation . |
| 6 | There is nothing new about this procedure ; the National Fruit Collection has already been moved from Wisley to Brogdale . |
| 7 | For most schools , there is nothing new about this thinking : TVEI has already made them familiar with the concepts of cross-curricular dimensions ( such as equal opportunities , independent learning ) skills and competences ( such as literacy , oracy , numeracy , computer literacy , and the less obvious visual literacy ) and themes ( such as health education , careers education and guidance , environmental and economic education and — increasingly — citizenship ) . |
| 8 | There is nothing new in that concept . |
| 9 | There is nothing new in this tendency . |
| 10 | ‘ There is nothing certain in this life except our death . ’ |
| 11 | There is nothing shameful in this situation and we will be better able to deal with it if we recognise it . |
| 12 | While there is nothing funny about this situation , sometimes the result may be funny . |
| 13 | ‘ Is nothing secret in this town ? ’ |
| 14 | Buddhists , indeed , have insisted that there is nothing supernatural about such enlightenment : the visions , ecstasies and other alternative states of consciousness experienced by an adept are not a meeting with an alien , divine reality but are natural to the human condition , even though most people have not developed this spiritual potential within themselves . |
| 15 | There is nothing improper in this process ; it may be regarded as a natural part of political negotiation in a pluralist society . |
| 16 | There is nothing ungracious about that comment . |
| 17 | For purposes of exposition there is nothing wrong with such use of the schemas . |
| 18 | There is nothing wrong with such fear if it leads a Christian to cry out in weakness to God and exercise faith . |
| 19 | Now there is nothing wrong with this argument as it stands , but it is weak ; it assumes that there are other minds than our own , and argues only that we may be mistaken about their states , thinking someone to be happy when she is really sad , etc . |
| 20 | There is nothing fuddy-duddy about this show . |
| 21 | Their chance would be diminishing as each hour goes by , but we have not reached the stage that we can confidently say there is nobody alive in that building . ’ |
| 22 | Man fights to understand the power that reigns over him but this fight is itself subject to that power . |
| 23 | In the end I bullied Andy , I said , Andy there is something fishy about this fire he said well it 's possible he said that it was erm a display model and every time anybody came in and needed a replacement part instead of sending for the part they took it out of the display model ! |
| 24 | There is something eerie about this war . |
| 25 | If you believe that there is something more after this life and that the spirit of the person who has died is continuing its journey in that place , then , because that is as it should be , there is no point in crying for that spirit . |
| 26 | There is something horrible about this boy , thought Van Cheele . |
| 27 | There is something paradoxical about this aspiration to lift myself out of nature by the use of reason , since I can not without setting arbitrary limits to reason forbid the sciences of physiology , psychology and sociology to reincorporate me into nature , as a phenomenon in principle explainable and predictable like everything else . |
| 28 | There is something risible about this mania . |
| 29 | Is anybody proud of this estate , except maybe some of the people who live there who 've tried to humanise them with their own gardens ? |
| 30 | Is there enough in that cup ? |