Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone 's made a right pig 's ear of them , and that 's a fact . |
| 2 | SOMEONE 'S SUGGESTED a clever little wrinkle that a buyer of Mirror Group Newspapers might be able to employ , were the purchaser to have a pension fund with a substantial surplus . |
| 3 | If he 's dead , then someone is playing a dangerous game , and one that ca n't go on forever . |
| 4 | ‘ I think 'e 's owed that , ’ said Sprott , ‘ I think 'e 's owed a generous tribute . ’ |
| 5 | The legislation will be used to back up the federal government 's high court case , due to be heard at the end of May , which is seeking a permanent injunction against the power project . |
| 6 | The writ of habeas corpus deals with the machinery of justice , and is essentially a procedural writ , the object of which is to enforce a legal right . |
| 7 | PLANS to turn the site of a former explosives factory at Annan , Dumfriesshire , into Scotland 's top rallying centre were put forward yesterday by the 300-strong Wigton Motor Club which is based a few miles over the Border in Cumbria . |
| 8 | I think this might help to defuse the whole situation which is getting a little bit hot , I 've been |
| 9 | Whitehall 's biggest potential ally is the United States , which is sending a large delegation to fight the ban . |
| 10 | We will halt the commercial market which is creating a two-tier health service . |
| 11 | Meta says its problems have been compounded by the rise of IBM 's DRDA , which is seeing a tidy flow of SAG members defect to its ranks , including Oracle and Informix , who say they simply can not afford not to pick up DRDA because of IBM 's huge installation base . |
| 12 | One example is Opel , part of General Motors , which is building a new vehicle plant in the east costing DM1 billion . |
| 13 | The original application from Anchor , which is building a similar complex in Gateshead , was refused by magistrates in December . |
| 14 | which IS proving a popular choice with our customers . |
| 15 | Still , ideas that the reflective pronoun herself and the item anyone which is called a negative polarity item , the item anyone needs to have something else in the sentence in order to license them they ca n't just occur freely in the normal position for er nouns , even though they are nouns . |
| 16 | When a record turns out to be a synonym , there are two alternatives : these are to store the synonym at once , in which case the process is called a one-pass load , or to load it in two passes , which is called a two-pass load . |
| 17 | Gas will be processed on site and sold under a 15-year contract to the SSGC , which is constructing a 408 km pipeline from Kadanwari to Karachi . |
| 18 | According to Doug Wolfe of the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration ( NOAA ) , Exxon 's definition of " recovery " of wildlife is questionable ; and Michael Fry , a seabird expert hired by the trust which is overseeing a ten-year restoration programme , claimed that " Exxon selectively funded studies with an apparently unlimited budget to prove specific points " . |
| 19 | Then , in order to jump to store address C if the contents of accumulator A are not less than the contents of store address B , we write Compare Accumulator A to store address B Jump to C if condition code is 00 or 10 The set of condition code patterns , any one of which is to cause a successful jump , is specified in the IBM 370 range by a four-bit subsidiary information field . |
| 20 | The highlight of the whole tournament — almost irrespective of their performance on the field — will be SOUTH AFRICA 's emergence from the woods , a coming in from the cold which is generating a great excitement . |
| 21 | European president Ninian Eadie is continuing to manage ICL 's personal products , and now includes the company 's mid-range systems in his portfolio , which is considered a natural step given the movement towards client server systems . |
| 22 | Most powerful of all Clios will be the limited edition Clio Williams model , due to go on sale in August 1993 with a 1998cc version of the 1 6-valve model which is to boast a massive 150bhp . |
| 23 | In terms of sheer craft , Conrad is as good a writer of prose as Patrick White , which is saying a great deal . |
| 24 | Protectionism ( exchange controls , import controls ) is likely to be extensively applied by developing countries , but it may still be relevant in an industrialised country which is suffering a high level of unemployment , with consequent pressure on the government to take economic measures to remedy this situation . |
| 25 | The Liberal Democrats were seeking three places on the 24-member body , which is to play a consultative role in securing adequate resources for the EC 's regional communities . |
| 26 | In the longer term discount range , Melanee could choose the Halifax , which is offering a first time buyer offer of 1.5 per cent until the end of January 1993 . |
| 27 | A guided pair apart there is nobody in the area , let alone on the mountain , and the solitude serves to heighten the element of adventure which is becoming a constant feature of our holiday . |
| 28 | The only valid context for physical sex is marriage , by which is meant a permanent relationship , publicly acknowledged and entered into with mutual promises . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the Wales TUC , which is mounting a big campaign for jobs and recovery , claimed yesterday that the Principality was the poorest region of Great Britain . |
| 30 | There is a new John Trenhaile , The Tiger of Desire ( HarperCollins ) ; David Gemmell has Waylander II ( Legend ) ; Inadmissible Evidence ( Headline ) is another courtroom drama from the author of Reasonable Doubt , Philip Friedman ; the writing duo of Laura Gilmour Bennett give us their last one together in Distant Echoes ( Penguin ) ; Hodder is keen on a gentle tale about organic horticulture in Rosemary Enright 's The Walled Garden ( Coronet ) ; Pan is building Graham Hurley , who has a Gulf War thriller in The Devil 's Breath ; and Orion is keen on Edmund McCoy ( a pseudonym for an established thriller writer ) with Blood of the Fathers , which is to have a three-part television series , and A J Quinnell 's The Perfect Kill , a Chapmans title which was originally scheduled for March . |