Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nice as she is and nice as I am , we 're both second string to the power and the rowing ability of the crews . |
| 2 | So really they the benefit of this to those of you is that that this end of Portugal is like that is it . |
| 3 | Now I think this is a very interesting point because if you go home , and over the next few days do what most people do after course like this , and that is they listen perhaps a little bit to radio , certainly watch some T V and , and think about all these issues , one of the things that will surprise you is that some of the people who are prominent broadcasters are really rather incompetent . |
| 4 | And as for Mr Willi Stoph , the former prime minister , a major mark against him is that 100 different brands of whisky were found in his cellar — in other countries that would be admired . |
| 5 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 6 | Crucial as this aspect is , it is but one side of a person 's moral history . |
| 7 | Although the proposed method is novel , it is but one of an increasingly large number of methods designed to detect and model ‘ clusters ’ of disease ( see , for example , Cuzick and Edwards 1990 ) . |
| 8 | It is but one of a plethora of bearable books on the ever lovable cuddly toy which has imprinted itself in the imagination of young and old alike , and always with a name by which to identity the original . |
| 9 | To attribute any subsequent pathology in the child to that single event would be misleading , for it is but one link in a chain of traumata , any one of which — or , more likely , the sum total of all — may be responsible for the child 's condition . |
| 10 | It is but one of several dozen churches in that country promoting impressive musical programmes . |
| 11 | This is one point in the course , and it is but one example , where the inter-relation between Professional Studies and the Curriculum Course is a matter for explicit emphasis . |
| 12 | And just as linguistics ought to be able to account for the structure and organization of as yet unspoken sentences , so poetics ought to be able to account for the rules governing as yet unwritten works of literature : ‘ Each work is therefore regarded only as the manifestation of an abstract and general structure , of which it is but one of the possible realizations . |
| 13 | And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that . |
| 14 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 15 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 16 | It is that two years , two and a quarter years ago I established a procedure in the Labour Party … ( uproar from audience ) . |
| 17 | It is that two lexical units will be assigned to the same lexeme if there exists a lexical rule which permits the prediction of the existence of the sense of one of them from the existence of the sense of the other . |
| 18 | And it is that each local church , of whatever sign should be invited to nominate from amongst their elder division those elders who district council might consider and recognise as dividing elders for a stated period of years with authority to do , provide them all services of worship and meetings of that local church , as the need arises . |
| 19 | It is that such questions can only be properly pursued in the company of the disciplinary studies . |
| 20 | What is particularly boring about it is that all the arguments are circular . |
| 21 | It is that all your life you have been soft and this treatment shocks and stuns you . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , I was just thinking what a pity it is that all good-looking men are such beasts , ’ she said , with more real feeling than she intended . |
| 23 | ( Care must be taken in interpreting these probit equations : note that positive because the higher the price the more likely it is that all will be sold ; is positive because as the horizon approaches one gets less fussy , and so one is more likely to sell at a lower price ; the other signs follow from similar arguments . ) |
| 24 | It is that all young people under 18 who are not in full-time education or a job and who are seeking youth training are entitled to be offered and , if necessary , re-offered any number of times entry to a suitable YT programme and to receive such training . |
| 25 | The best which you can put it is that all the whole of the area of search is an area of of moderate quality which is appreciated by the people who live within it . |
| 26 | It is that that makes real and radical faith possible , faith which lives from nothing in itself , but solely from the promise and invitation of God . |
| 27 | It is that that defeated our Tariff Reform proposal — that and that alone . |
| 28 | Why do you think it is that that you get erm that you have got quite a few girls that become prostitutes , what do you think the reasons are for it ? |
| 29 | Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life . |
| 30 | The Miller knows himself : He recognizes too how it is that that his tale may offend the Reeve , and responds to the Reeve in conciliatory terms : Most pertinently , he eschews the generalization of the fabliau image of the world : The Reeve , too , in his Prologue , speaks more in relative than in absolute terms . |