Example sentences of "[pron] is [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tara : Now mine 's little and yours is little too . |
| 2 | Everyone has their own favourite gardening wheeze , and if yours is original enough to print on this page we 'll send you a £50 cash prize . |
| 3 | When they find out yours is broken though . |
| 4 | It also demands that someone is skilled enough to set up the stylesheets in the first place unless you want to stick with the standard set provided by Xerox . |
| 5 | But natural predators could benefit , especially the otter which is rare here , but may in time return . |
| 6 | From the first album on The Smiths matured from semi-suicidal to sensitive , with their much needed plausible pop-marketable yet meaningful approach , which is rare enough these days . |
| 7 | A firm must require the customer to provide any margin which is payable both at the outset ( initial margin ) and subsequently ( variation margin ) and take reasonable care to satisfy itself that the customer is aware of the consequence of not paying it . |
| 8 | A less direct measure which is applicable only to the most senior management is to observe the fall or rise of the share price when a particular executive leaves or joins a company . |
| 9 | The cluster is made up of a small quadrilateral which is distinctive enough , and is very characteristic with × 20 . |
| 10 | An antagonist is a substance which is similar enough to a neurotransmitter to occupy its receptors , but is not similar enough to fit perfectly and change the cell 's membrane potential , thereby blocking the receptor . |
| 11 | We 're now beginning to look forward to the return home , which is little more than 5 weeks distant . |
| 12 | Ideally , that should n't be important , of course , since both TrueType and Adobe fonts ought to perform equally well ( I do n't want to get into an argument about which is better here ) , but adherents of one or the other will want to know which they 're using — and when you 've got over 200 fonts on your system , as some folks do , you ca n't always remember which is which . |
| 13 | Devlin completes his lecture by returning to a question he had briefly considered at the beginning , and one which is central here ; that of the relationship between the Church and the moral order . |
| 14 | DRG has spread the surplus over 8.5 years , which is long enough to justify valuing it as part of the overall earnings stream . |
| 15 | That has lasted for five centuries , which is long enough ; especially oil painting which certainly does n't last forever , and may possibly disappear completely . |
| 16 | Corrosion is severest closer to the outer leaf where damp is more severe and where the rust expands , forcing open the mortar joints , and in extreme cases causing bulging and cracking of the wall which is visible externally . |
| 17 | Larger than Wood Sandpiper , and differing especially in its conspicuous white rump contrasting strongly with dark upperparts and barred tip of tail , but much smaller than Greenshank ( p. 131 ) , which is paler above . |
| 18 | Havrix manufacturers SmithKline Beecham also make EngerixB , a vaccine which protects against Hepatitis B , a highly infectious virus — transmitted sexually or by infected needles — which is rife worldwide . |
| 19 | They feel like an extension of my arm , with a sweet action down their 10 ft length which is supple enough to cast free-lined baits and give me a feel of a fighting fish , yet with power to spare when I have to bend it into the run of a big carp . |
| 20 | Not only are they the most identifiable group in terms of their appearance , but also in terms of the high level of activity among the group which is apparent even to the casual observer . |
| 21 | And of course you will already be aware of the er program office which is outside just off the corridor . |
| 22 | And I 've got er , I 've got a printed overhead here which is nice so I 'll use my printed overhead . |
| 23 | I turn , therefore , to what I consider to be the primary issue in this appeal , namely , whether there exists a principle whereby a subject who makes a payment in response to a demand of taxation ( or other like demand ) from the Crown which is unlawful either because it is wholly ultra vires or merely excessive thereby acquires a prima facie right to its repayment forthwith as money had and received . |
| 24 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 25 | Talking about depression is not something we do much , which is odd really because everybody gets depressed and vast numbers of us need help from time to time . |
| 26 | As with size-confusion , there is no evidence that dazzle-confusion puts off a hungry lion which is close enough to experience it . |
| 27 | To the west is Lescar , which is close enough to the expanded , present-day Pau to count as its suburb . |
| 28 | Only the " ideal " of the Professional scholar is left , which is remote both from the " interests of unprofessional readers " and from all students of literature except the " brightest " . |
| 29 | Graham Swift 's Waterland ( 1983 ) shows the appropriateness of this idiom even within the South-East of England , providing a setting can be found which is remote enough to establish the ‘ contesting of centralisation of culture through the valuing of the local and peripheral ’ , which Linda Hutcheon considers an important constituent of postmodernism ( Hutcheon 1988 : 61 ) . |
| 30 | Until now they have represented a mass of public opinion which is noisy rather than articulate , and more remarkable for its courage than its ability to coalesce as an organised force . |