Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is unlikely to get the ‘ poor-thing-he 's deaf reaction and more likely to get the ‘ well-how-clever ’ reaction . |
| 2 | As yours is low mileage , the cam followers will be OK to use again . |
| 3 | This twin of yours is pure fiction , but I do think you know who Garry 's new love is . |
| 4 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If that gelding of yours is any good , I 'll put my hand in my pocket for him for Dolly . |
| 6 | Grasping her elbow , Donal moved her out of the way of the small bridesmaid who seemed to have got over-excited and was racing around with someone 's little boy . |
| 7 | One of the window 's been smashed and someone 's stuck newspaper over the hole . |
| 8 | When you start to build bonfires in someone 's back garden , there 's never enough space between the fire and the property , and consequently you can get all sorts of damage er either of a minor nature of blistering , or at the other end of the scale complete burn out of the house . |
| 9 | But if the idea of some indefinable menace frees your imagination , then there is nothing to stop you producing a suspense novel every bit as twanging with tension as a story in which someone is left hanging by one finger over a depthless gorge . |
| 10 | In most cases it is because someone is withholding information to increase their power . |
| 11 | Candice Dungey 's attacker has not been traced , but Det Insp John Kelly , head of Middlesbrough CID , is convinced that someone is withholding information about what he called ‘ a very vicious attack ’ . |
| 12 | It 's that crowd 'e 's runnin' aroun ’ wiv . |
| 13 | The world crown could … should be their 's this season … so tonight we meet the main man … |
| 14 | And true to form Flippin Shytalk roars across the line to win again … the National Championship should be their 's this summer … they defy the dangers week in week out … there 's no money to be won just fun to be had … |
| 15 | Which is actual expenditure divided by actual allowance . |
| 16 | I am the author of War in the Nursery ( Virago , 1983 ) , have contributed to several books and journals , and have published collections of poetry , the most recent of which is Dry Air ( Virago , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Hulse and Taylor found that the period changed by as much as 80 µs with a 7.75 h cycle , which is uncharacteristic behaviour for a pulsar . |
| 18 | Her justification was that we were personal friends , which is absolute bullshit . |
| 19 | They wheel you over and they put you in the bath and they start stripping off your bandages which is absolute agony . |
| 20 | But as I say , and then er , the other one which I can tell you was , which is absolute disaster ! |
| 21 | Several of the companies were newly founded last month , the most ambitious of which is Advanced Computer Technology Ltd or ACTec , which is charged with producing both an Asynchronous Transfer Mode switch , and separately , a wireless local network system . |
| 22 | At the time of invoicing , by drawing a bill on his overseas buyer which is payable say ‘ 90 days from sight ’ an exporter will have an acknowledgement of the debt by obtaining his buyer 's acceptance of the bill . |
| 23 | BECAUSE ‘ Mad , Scared , Dumb And Gorgeous ’ debut from a new duo , one half of which is former Furniture vocalist Jim Irvin |
| 24 | There is a charge for the use of the lake ( which is private property ) and car parking . |
| 25 | Er which is better place big window |
| 26 | If thought and study had been restricted to whatever held out the visible prospect of material advantage , that explosive corruscation of human achievement which is European civilisation would never have occurred . |
| 27 | Care of a personal kind and care which is long term and continuous is almost always provided by kin . |
| 28 | It is about control over oil — which is Arab wealth . |
| 29 | Slash order minus D , which is reverse date order . |
| 30 | But a fourth kind of intelligence might be added , which is diplomatic intelligence , which bears not the remotest relationship to any of the other three , nor to any kind of intelligence that can be identified by any human being . |