Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [is] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but I mean yours is a big school now is n't it ? |
| 2 | They say she 's a tartar , but I wo n't mind that . |
| 3 | But , as I say she 's a modern outlook is a difference from the Queen , I think Queen Elizabeth |
| 4 | say she 's a bit depressed and say |
| 5 | ‘ Say she 's a silly , daft cow , ’ suggested Constance , who was rather jealous of Scarlet 's therapist . |
| 6 | ‘ That girl you saw … you say she 's a social worker ? ’ said Iris , brandishing a tablespoon . |
| 7 | There 'll be months of physiotherapy but medical staff say she 's a fighter … |
| 8 | If they say she 's a one |
| 9 | People say she 's a good swimmer but she 's big |
| 10 | ‘ They say she 's the youngest prima ballerina ever to dance at the Coliseum . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They say she is a very good housekeeper and I want a very good housekeeper because my house will be perfect . |
| 12 | He accuses her of being a stooge of the EGP , the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ; he say she is a front for this ‘ hard-line rebel group ’ which is ‘ bent on achieving communist revolution by force of arms ’ . |
| 13 | Sometimes the women say she is a saint , but that is only because she has kept me here , and they do not like her . |
| 14 | The Bulgarians sombrely suggest that she is a dead mother looking for her own baby , while the Spanish say she is the GHOST of an aunt or grandmother , looking to make a gift to her descendants . |
| 15 | The Genesis flood story has a recognizable background in Mesopotamia , and the numerous similarities suggest it is a record of the same event as the Babylonian . |
| 16 | And erm since we 're both to some extent , crystal ball gazing , I suggest it 's a matter of choice which to believe is most likely . |
| 17 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 18 | Close observers of Microsoft say that what really interest it is the licensing fees it says Sun should be paying . |
| 19 | Anyway , I expect it 's a lot more complicated than a truck . |
| 20 | ‘ I expect it 's a bit strange , ’ she said , ‘ all that Chapel and being seen and not heard . |
| 21 | I expect it 's a waste of time though . |
| 22 | But I expect it 's no worse than being a punk . |
| 23 | ‘ I expect it 's the sidh , is n't it ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I expect it 's the hat . ’ |
| 25 | I expect it 's the weather . |
| 26 | I expect it 's the petals and |
| 27 | But I expect it is the effects of expatriation . |
| 28 | I expect he 's a perfectly nice man . |
| 29 | You 've got to get on and deal with the problem and forget it 's a crisis . |
| 30 | Many East Asians say it is no coincidence that their countries , home to the martial arts , have achieved greater economic success than other Asian countries . |