Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [is] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only force which separates them is the Church , the one single coherent organisation in this country which binds like mortar the different races and degrees of this nation . |
| 2 | What really angers me is the exploitation of young women like us by advertisers , to sell their products . |
| 3 | The main thing that upsets me is the fact that she 's a bastard . |
| 4 | REFUSING drugs to a person who needs them is a disgrace to the medical profession — but this is exactly what some heart-care units in opt-out hospitals are doing . |
| 5 | What worries me is the fate of the fox if hunting stops . |
| 6 | Another part of the proposals which worries me is the Scottish Office taking responsibility for more of the main roads . |
| 7 | ‘ What worries me is the assumption in the town is that the replay result is a foregone conclusion . |
| 8 | What they seem to do is indicate , often in very complex ways , just how the utterance that contains them is a response to , or a continuation of , some portion of the prior discourse . |
| 9 | But the reason he loves her is the reason she is hard to hold . |
| 10 | The 901 in the engine number signifies it is a 2 25 litre , 81 compression ratio and three main bearing unit |
| 11 | It probably illustrates it 's a lethal cocktail of lorries and cars . |
| 12 | Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike . |
| 13 | Instead , what linguistics owes us is an account of how textual " openness ' is possible within the social and psychological context of literature , and hence how alternative readings can be explicitly accounted for . |
| 14 | Near the top the trees die out and the landscape which replaces them is a shock , for here the rock enters into full possession , turbulent acres of it , broken and jagged . |
| 15 | But the Bordeaux that really grabs me is the oak-aged Blanc de Bordeaux ‘ 90 . |
| 16 | She says she 's a bit of a philistine and does n't know much about rowing , but hopes to find out . |
| 17 | Kevin Bird says she 's a brave girl — she 's put up with mortar fire , a tuma and now looks like having open heart surgery . |
| 18 | Anne Cullen has spent nearly half of her twenty two years of married life pregnant … and says she 's the happiest mum in the world . |
| 19 | But Vicky Cooper says she 's the official carnival queen . |
| 20 | He says she 's an exceptional player so an exception should be made . |
| 21 | ‘ She says she is the Contessa Sforza-Bellini , sir . ’ |
| 22 | What sustains him is the comfort he derives from the spiritual world of the Indian , as he escapes the alienating environment of the school to listen to Quechua music and to renew his bonds with the magical world of nature , but his experiences call into question the effectiveness of Quechua values in the white world in which he must live . |
| 23 | What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders . |
| 24 | What antagonises him is the prospect of the civiliser being rendered savage , the moral made immoral . |
| 25 | Whenever this happens it is a sad waste of the stimulus which projects can engender . |
| 26 | I think Ibrahim must be ill or summat , cos Marie says he 's a junky — you know , he 's got to take drugs and stuff like that . |
| 27 | Father O'Harte says he 's a holy person , a sort of saint . |
| 28 | Its white , openly gay editor Jonathan Van Meter says he 's a journalist not a hip hop artists , but this assertion ( and the fact that other staff members are gay ) did n't stop Russell Simmons , Def Jam owner and Jones ' original partner in the project , from resigning — because of ‘ philosophical differences ’ rooted in hip hop 's general ambivalence towards homosexuals . |
| 29 | She said , ‘ Mrs Gotobed says he 's a mean , cold , hard man . ’ |
| 30 | I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T. |