Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably Mira is composing a poem , counting the syllables as she walks . |
| 2 | Eventually Gnashrak is defeated and captured at the Battle of Broken Leg Gulley by a Dwarf army led by Lord Ungrim Ironfist of Karak Kadrin . |
| 3 | Of course , few of us really set out to destroy someone of whom we are jealous ; none the less Hegel is describing an extreme form of such a feeling . |
| 4 | Othello , who only has Iago 's word to go on , falls into the trap : So Cassio is displaced . |
| 5 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 6 | Among his successors as Duke of Aquitaine only Richard is known to have written verse and certainly neither of the two surviving poems attributed to him is of this quality . |
| 7 | Apparently Maggie is going wild trying to find out who is responsible for seasonal changes . |
| 8 | And naturally Curtis is retiring . ’ |
| 9 | So Englishness is corrupted from the beginning . |
| 10 | Players have set positons Eg Giggs is regarded as a mid-fielder . |
| 11 | So Daedalus is developing a new word-processing program . |
| 12 | So Daedalus is inventing the foamblowing car . |
| 13 | So Daedalus is inventing novel ‘ X-ray stains ’ to make bacteria , etc. , absorb X-rays strongly . |
| 14 | So Daedalus is squirting one such solution through small round nozzles into the other . |
| 15 | So ITV is driving a comparatively modest engine . |
| 16 | So Coleridge is denying a strong element of Christian theology . |
| 17 | So that 's that , but he 's not going to interfere with us talking , let's carry on , at about ten o'clock Graham is coming who is , I 'm , as you know I 'm doing erm , er a teaching course , I 'm not a teacher you see , I 'm a , I 'm a nurse , he 's coming to assess me on er , this is a teaching practice for me , alright , so he will come in and I think he 'll sit over there and we 'll just get on . |
| 18 | And so Jesus is taking their attention off the miraculous , in a sense , and directing it towards him . |
| 19 | So ESA is having to cough up rather more than it bargained for to insure the European communications satellite that , if all goes to plan , Ariane will place in orbit on its next launch in June . |
| 20 | It claims that only Lothian is providing extra payments to maintain standards of care , even though all authorities are receiving Scottish Office grants . |
| 21 | Perhaps Jesus is refuting the popular idea of Messiah , which was that a descendant of David would come as a nationalistic leader , drive the Romans out and restore the kingdom of Israel . |
| 22 | So Mrs is teaching is she ? |
| 23 | This does mean though that Blanche has to be sacrificed and so Blanche is sent to a mental asylum . |
| 24 | So God is calling us and gathering us where we are . |
| 25 | So AT&T is trying to oust Mr Exley and his board , which includes some of the people it once hoped would run its own computer business . |
| 26 | Right so Steve is undertaking to be the next brave soldier to write something for |
| 27 | So Japan is setting up its own dealer network . |
| 28 | Among big countries , only Britain is growing . |
| 29 | ‘ Only Jones is banned . |
| 30 | I suggest that the mirror has severe distortions , and perhaps Harley is seeing things grossly out of proportion . |