Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is just one example of the new enterprises supplying fish to shops or restaurants that cut out Billingsgate market ; for they also cut out the 25 per cent or so that trading through the market adds to the cost of fish . |
| 2 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 3 | 'E 's not long ti go and indeed , it 'll be a blessing . |
| 4 | Danny as well if 'e 's still livin' wiv yer . ’ |
| 5 | Postnikova also manages to present in its possible light Tchaikovsky 's Sonata , which is distinctly heavy going . |
| 6 | Which is even better news , is n't it , for us , not for them , of course . |
| 7 | In 1988 , this was over $US 40 , payable in this currency only and not the equivalent in Chinese ‘ people 's money ’ ( renminbi ) , which is approximately one month 's salary for a young teacher . |
| 8 | The Bypass which is approximately 23 kms ( 14 miles ) in length follows a route round the south side of the City from the Glasgow Road ( A8 ) west of the Maybury to the interchange on the Musselburgh Bypass ( A1 ) near Old Craighall . |
| 9 | The value of the maximised log likelihood for this model was — 8250.4 which is approximately 35 points lower , implying the significance of other variables . |
| 10 | This is because the ‘ goodness ’ of the boues rots away into the soil leaving the bulk of non-bio-degradable material remaining which is largely blue plastic . |
| 11 | It has plenty of slots — seven 16-bit and one 8-bit — with two of the former occupied by the video card and yet another minuscule component , the multi-I/O card with floppy and IDE interfaces , which is barely two inches tall . |
| 12 | ‘ In the end I was acting mum to six orphaned baby hedgehogs — getting up to feed them every three hours , which is n't much fun . |
| 13 | The cloud is quite a bit thinner than yesterday , but the sequence still shows movement from east to west , which is n't good news when the north sea is cold . |
| 14 | Erm which is n't any help at all , it shows the people they 're on their own anyway , cos you feel more lonely that way . |
| 15 | ‘ Almost twenty years for Kiss now , which is n't bad going . |
| 16 | Here 's a nice letter at last about the second this year I think which is n't bad going ! |
| 17 | There is a small Methodist chapel which is over 100 years old and still used every Sunday . |
| 18 | The only difference is he might run from London to Brighton , which is over 50 miles , and possibly back again . |
| 19 | In fact , the biblical date for the creation is not that far off the date of the end of the last ice age , which is when modern humans seem first to have appeared . |
| 20 | His evidence : more and more babies were born to unmarried women during the past 30 years — which is when social-welfare spending shot up . |
| 21 | Some countries monitor its use more strictly than others , which is why jaundiced Trading Standards Officers sometimes call it the ‘ Cover Everything ’ mark . |
| 22 | Brewster is merely an old word for ‘ brewer ’ — which is why licensing sessions , held in the first 14 days of February , have that name . |
| 23 | The correct pitch for any model can only be determined by experiment , which is why experienced contest flyers prefer to have too much negative and ‘ fly the pitch ’ on the way down . |
| 24 | The independence of the inspectorate enabled it to make its comments , which is why new clause 2 is so relevant . |
| 25 | And marriage is the only state which affords women some measure of protection under law , which is why many women insist on it even when they suspect their relationship might not last the distance . |
| 26 | This action may be repeated several times which is why fluorescent lighting ‘ flashes ’ when first switched on . |
| 27 | The trouble is that so are a lot of other people , and classy people at that , which is why old Joe ‘ I'm-a-dealer-in-architectural-antiques ’ Soap has climbed on to the pricey bandwagon . |
| 28 | Which is why most women , when asked what they first look for in a man , reply ‘ Wit and humour ’ . |
| 29 | The exploitation of ethnicity may perhaps work as a form of primitive accumulation of cultural capital , but it does nothing to enlarge the audience or scope of such work , which is why most artists and writers of any stature have rejected this appellation , even if they have benefited indirectly from it . |
| 30 | This fear derives more from a recognition that they often lack the additional personal qualities which they see as necessary for certain types of work , which is why most policemen are reluctant to deal with rape victims or to undertake community and neighbourhood policing . |