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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With cemeteries to maintain all over the world it is nor surprising that a variety of arrangements , contracts and agreements have had to be set up to ensure proper care and maintenance . |
| 5 | The insecticide is carried in a very penetrating light oil but it is nor fair to expect it to penetrate heavy deposits of dust , dirt and cobwebs before it reaches the timber . |
| 6 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
| 7 | It is because carbon-based molecules are necessary for the kind of life that we find on Earth , and because those molecules are of necessity complex , that life itself is fragile . |
| 8 | It is because primary schools are difficult to classify in any but the most general terms that the phrase ‘ mixed methods ’ is used to describe the practices found in the great majority of them . |
| 9 | It is because young people of both sexes are increasingly seeking work on the mainland , instead of participating in the precarious agricultural island economy as their elders continue to do . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is because six-time major-winner Lee Trevino shares a background with his caddie Willie Aitchison that the two have developed such a close relationship over the years . |
| 11 | It is not to maintain the pretence that there is no autocue ; it is because continuous looking at the camera apparently produces a disconcerting ‘ super-stare ’ of hostility . |
| 12 | It is because evil spirits do not fit — have no logical place or space — into the modern scientific world-view . |
| 13 | It is because organisational members see their authority as legitimate that they are prepared to obey . |
| 14 | If one seeks to understand the way in which politics is gradually dragged into the gutter , it is because hon. Members come out with such a simplistic approach . |
| 15 | ( It is because Christian feminists see such an incongruity that they want to adapt or reinterpret the myth . ) |
| 16 | It is because human societies pursue values that their study falls within the province of history rather than biology . |
| 17 | Well if you save tax yes it is or bad planning try to keep it as broad as we possibly can . |
| 18 | In the British and the American cases it is as necessary to contextualise the production of knowledges about the inner city as it is to unpack the glossary of terms of urban regeneration used in contemporary political discourse . |
| 19 | In 1641 an attorney of the Council in the Marches , Richard Lloyd , defending that court against its enemies , claimed that ‘ it is as necessary for princes to have places of preferment to prefer servants of merit as money in their Exchequer ’ . |
| 20 | For a firm to succeed it is as necessary to efficiently manage its knowledge resources as it is its labour and capital . |
| 21 | If this sort of account is true to the facts , then it is a consideration against any factual connection of the type Minsky envisaged between conscious access and ‘ reprogramming or debugging ’ , at least it is if lower-level translations normally exist as ( undebuggable ) compilations . |
| 22 | Formidable though he is and obedient though his followers may be , the male has difficulty in defending several dozen youngsters . |
| 23 | She is , after all , some years older than he is and inclined to be emotional , hysterical even . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If I look pale as a lily , 't is because fresh air is too rarely on the menu . |