Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , it really is strange to hear about you all again . |
| 2 | Wait near the toilet for any resident who is unsafe to leave on their own and help them back to their room . |
| 3 | Is could be seen as a classic example of the muddle that has been prevalent at the top of Welsh rugby except that the pressures here — unrecognisable from those in other home unions — are so many and varied that it is impossible to respond to them all , let alone resist them . |
| 4 | In this way the diet is easy to adjust to your own requirements . |
| 5 | All this is supposed to contrast with his own offering , which appears to be introduced with the words " " I speke in prose " " ( II : 96 ) although in fact his tale of a noble woman and wife , Custance ( Constance ) , is told in rhyme-royal stanzas . |
| 6 | A third kind of analysis conceives some sections of the middle class ( technicians , managers , engineers , professional employees in the public service and in private industry ) either as constituting an important part of a ‘ new working class ’ which is likely to participate in its own way in a refashioned socialist movement ( Mallet , 1975 ) , or as forming one element — alongside the old industrial working class — in a new class , which is becoming involved in a new type of struggle , directed against those who control the institutions of economic and political decision making , and who reduce it to a condition , not of misery or oppression , but of restricted and dependent participation in the major public affairs of society ( Touraine , 1971a ) . |
| 7 | ‘ The credit grantor not only requires confirmation of the existing loan commitments of a business prospect ; he also needs details of previous repayment patterns in order to assess how a commercial borrower is likely to cope with his own repayment structure . ’ |
| 8 | Det Chief Supt Colin Port , head of Warwickshire CID , said : ‘ It is hard to think of anyone less of a match for these brutal people . ’ |
| 9 | The biggest programme faces Foggo , who is down for 11 events , including her Olympic races of 400m and 800m freestyle , but she is unlikely to compete in them all . |
| 10 | A declaration of anti-racist principle is made , but is unable to stand on its own : it is quickly followed by a neutralizing qualification , which allows the racial themes to enter the conversation under the protection of an apparently anti-racist banner ( see Billig , 1982 , for a discussion of this ‘ two-sided ’ form of discourse ) . |
| 11 | Children love to discover that they can ‘ do ’ something new , and through the provision that is made and suggestions that are offered , each child is able to succeed at his own level . |
| 12 | A group of twenty young girls showed how each is able to cope in her own way using apparatus to musical accompaniment — on this occasion they handled balls , hoops , ribbons and twisters and very well too ! ! |
| 13 | The youth … is capable of having principles ; his religious and moral ideas can be cultivated , and he is able to attend to his own refinement . |
| 14 | As a result , the copier ( the student ) becomes aware of the discriminative cues and so he is able to act as his own critic , thus advancing his learning with his own efforts , without further need of a teacher or critic . |
| 15 | While Unix International is currently keeping the report under wraps , Locus is keen to talk about its own conclusions . |
| 16 | The learned judge held not , for the reason that no one is entitled to profit from his own wrong . |
| 17 | But there is no word that Saddam Hussein is ready to return to his own people the $10 billion he is accused of looting from them by skimming Iraq 's oil revenue for the past ten years and taking kickbacks from foreign contractors . |