Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these are all secondary to the flow of talk , which is at times brilliant and , rather less often , impossibly pretentious . |
| 2 | But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person . |
| 3 | What seems to have fascinated Picasso about Cézanne 's figure studies and portraits , besides his obvious interest in their structural formal properties , is the complete disregard of details , which is at times extended even to a disregard of the individual features of the face . |
| 4 | Yet the Finale , taken at a rather leisurely speed , has tremendous swagger , and my only complaint is an occasional element of heaviness which is at odds with Schumann 's more playful writing . |
| 5 | Since then we have witnessed the development first of all of the Keynesian view of the importance of money , followed by the monetarist view which is at odds with the former and is closely associated with the original quantity theory . |
| 6 | For instance , the finding on equivalent doses ( which is at odds with the views of the CSM ) is handled by reference to oral evidence , to published work , and to a transcript . |
| 7 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |
| 8 | Religion is often castigated for encouraging an attitude of dependence upon authority or tradition , which is at loggerheads with the attitude of taking responsibility for oneself . |
| 9 | He concentrates on a derelict American car beneath him , which is without wheels and a windshield . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm particularly proud of ‘ Each Dollar A Bullet ’ which is about Irish-Americans who chuck $5 or $10 into a NORAID collection and reckon they 're being great patriots . |
| 11 | It 's putting history back as history , which is about facts . |
| 12 | Rola Europe Ltd claim their roofracks can be fitted to any vehicle with just 4 mountings , one of which is for cars with gutters . |
| 13 | Children start in the beginners group and when they prove to have good contact with parents , the ability to understand instructions and to move from one position to another they move on to the advanced group which is for children over the age of two , still with parents accompanying . |
| 14 | Iain Grainger , an executive with the Aberdeen-based subsea contractor , Rockwater , which is among pioneers of the technique , said it would be a natural step to integrate subsea production equipment for towing out with the pipeline bundles . |
| 15 | This extraordinarily convoluted definition , the whole of which is in italics , must have been responsible for deterring thousands of readers from proceeding beyond page 15 of the General Theory , but it does make sense . |
| 16 | The infamous Malleus Maleficarum — a document produced by two Dominican monks who were appointed by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484 to investigate and stamp out witchcraft — states that ‘ all witchcraft comes from carnal lust , which is in women insatiable ’ . |
| 17 | A local drilling operation , which is in negotiations with a number of families in the area , invited Andrew to join a trip to visit the homelands , giving him the chance to see the local population 's lifestyle at first hand . |
| 18 | In approaching this case the court first stated that there were many cases where a court has to construe a standard clause in , for example , a charter party , and there may be some earlier decisions on the same clause or on a clause which is in terms which are indistinguishable . |
| 19 | So it 's twenty miles an hour times the number of So the distance which is in miles is equal to twenty miles an hour times hours . |
| 20 | This is the role where he proves his worth with a characterisation which is by turns taciturn , compassionate and obsessed . |
| 21 | But Foucault 's own subsequent work shows that it could not really be a question of choice on these terms , for the simple reason that , as he himself is at pains to point out in The Order of Things , history is itself a discursive practice : while the latter can not be simply equated with the textual , it can not be crudely opposed to it either . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's with foster-parents now . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's with girls who understand , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Say nothing to anyone about your wife ; tell your staff she 's with friends , anything convincing . |
| 25 | No , one of our friends she 's on drugs . |
| 26 | She 's on taxes . |
| 27 | And my friend Tracy 's in it — she 's on drums . |
| 28 | She 's on lyrics man her dad . |
| 29 | They 'll say every time she 's on days she does n't turn up . |
| 30 | " She never sails , she 's at moorings . " |