Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | What the mother finally decides to do will probably result from the opinion of someone else — whether that someone is her own mother , the local midwife or whichever childcare expert happens to be in vogue at the time . |
2 | ‘ 'E 's me best friend . ’ |
3 | Here I must emphasize that , although social anthropologists in the field concentrate a great deal of their attention on day-to-day domestic relationships , it is not really the set of domestic relationships as such which is their ultimate focus of interest . |
4 | But they must find Shetland pretty inhospitable , with no trees to support the grubs which is their normal diet . |
5 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
6 | The Belfast date is part of a tour to promote their current chart-topping album ‘ Promises And Lies ’ , which is their first album of original material for some time . |
7 | Remember that we , we sent er ten pounds to the area committee , which they 've said , thank you very much indeed , erm for , and , and there 's a meeting erm next in June , which is their next meeting . |
8 | But many of his backbenchers are getting over-excited ( which is their constitutional function ) . |
9 | Walks extend for miles over the hill-tops ; the great beauty of which is their wild simplicity : they are perfectly smooth , without rocks . |
10 | The infection happens when the body 's primary defence , which is its unbroken skin , fails . |
11 | The Park might then have a chance to return to the ‘ wild character ’ which is its chief delight . |
12 | Where a word used in a lease has multiple meanings , one of which is its ordinary meaning and the other of which is some technical meaning , there must be some objective evidence that the parties intended the technical meaning to be adopted , otherwise the word will be construed in its ordinary sense ( Holt & Co v Collyer ( 1881 ) 16 ChD 719 ) . |
13 | Attempts to disaggregate the growth of " non-standard " employment are likely to be rendered more difficult by an inability to determine whether it is the " temporariness " , the " self-employedness " or the " part-timeness " of any particular employment which is its predominant characteristic . |
14 | There is a minor problem with IC3 , which is its unusual 12-pin d.i.l. encapsulation . |
15 | It can therefore be regarded as divisible into two distinct parts , its intrinsic biochemical nature , which is its physical nature , and its ‘ goodness ’ , an abstract word provided by man millenniums after the event , to describe its quality . |
16 | If you look at , say , American TV wrestling , you can already see in it a strutting prediction of the showbiz-sports of the future , where drug-enhanced body-sculpture plays a part both in the athletic demands of the spectacle and in the personality-selling which is its true purpose . |
17 | Indian Ayurvedic treatment , Chinese Acupuncture as well as today 's electro-acupuncture and herbal medicine , are all methods based on the maintaining of balance and rebalancing of the energy system of the human entity , allowing the body to cure itself , which is its natural function ; wholeness — organisation and continuity — being the purpose , as researchers like H.S. Burr have stated . |
18 | It is interesting to note that in the last analysis it is evil which is its own undoing . |
19 | Later , in a company or people whose paths have crossed throughout the day , promising each other further meetings as they prepare , with a sort of leisured bustle which is its own end , for some special occasion , I stroll down the hard stamped dirt roads from which the heat of day is withdrawing . |
20 | At the one step beyond , where one imagines glimpses of a final formulation , thinking is no longer a source of satisfaction or even a rational activity , it is a form of torture , a sacrilege which is its own punishment . |
21 | For justification , and the very baptism which is its outward symbol , means dying with Christ and rising again ; dying to the old sinful ways , and being prepared to see them as characteristics of the unregenerate nature that was dealt with on the cross by Jesus and must be kept there . |
22 | This is hardly surprising , for the disciplines of the academic community have an underlying unity in open communication , which is what procedural rationality is all about . |
23 | Where in a hotel might you use CCTV to help you manage ( which is what efficient communication is all about ) ? |
24 | And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet . |
25 | And I think that the revolution in history which has taken place over the course of the last twenty-five years has been a revolution which has been fuelled by people 's curiosity to study things which previously had not been studied , rather than just to take some formal statement of what seemed to be important , which is what the chroniclers took , or some propaganda statement , which is what the Tudors took and what the seventeenth century historians took , or indeed to write very academic history , which is what professional historians have tended to do , over the course of the last erm forty or fifty years . |
26 | ‘ We simply applied rule one , which is what most players are interested in — whether or not they are playing . ’ |
27 | By staying decentralised , and by starting most new magazines cheaply in-house , rather than by acquiring them , which is what most publishers do if they want to grow quickly . |
28 | Which is what most people that go in there |
29 | You would n't let me turn the telly on which is what most people want to do on a Saturday evening , off |
30 | This is why many women see no wrong in abortion on demand — which is what most politicians abhor . |