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 | Danny as well if 'e 's still livin' wiv yer . ’ |
4 | Postnikova also manages to present in its possible light Tchaikovsky 's Sonata , which is distinctly heavy going . |
5 | Which is even better news , is n't it , for us , not for them , of course . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | There is a small Methodist chapel which is over 100 years old and still used every Sunday . |
12 | The only difference is he might run from London to Brighton , which is over 50 miles , and possibly back again . |
13 | Which is surely good news for lodge owners . |
14 | Professor G.W. Keeton favoured a periodic judicial abstract restatement of general principles , a practice which , apart from obiter dicta , is not provided for in the English legal system , which is anathema to the judges and which is surely legislative responsibility . |
15 | This is available to people age fifty or over with the er necessary amount of qualifying service which is generally two years . |
16 | Currency : Luxembourg franc ( at par with Belgian franc , which is also official currency — US$1.00=LF37.3374 as at July 1 , 1991 ) . |
17 | One or two pairs also breed regularly on the tidal stream of Glynde Reach , and breeding has been proved on the Ouse below there , which is also tidal water . |
18 | Serious structural problems mean the building which is just 10 years old needs around £4.5m worth of repairs . |
19 | What economists call the theory of maximising behaviour , which is just flossy way of saying it . |
20 | Observations about the ozone layer are being made in MacMurdo sound in the Antarctic which is just 15 miles upwind from another great volcano called Mount Erebus . |
21 | In recent years , even the paddle steamers linking Hull and Barton have been made obsolete by the building of the magnificent single span Humber Bridge , completed in 1980 — the north bank approach of which is just three miles east of North Ferriby . |
22 | Updata is the sole product offering from GL Software , which is just three years old and has 25 staff . |
23 | When we squeeze the Devil out through the front door , we unwittingly let in all sorts of secular ideologies that masquerade as Christian ones ( which is just another way of saying that he comes in again through the back door ) . |
24 | Which is just another way of saying health cover benefits can be sustained , in fact , does n't it ? |
25 | But it does , by this convention , proclaim itself to be a book of a special kind , one designed to proclaim what the faithful believe about Christ , not necessarily a book which is straight narrative history in the modern mode . |
26 | The same approach prevailed following publication of the JCT 1963 form , which is probably one reason why so many surveyors still cling to its use long after publication has ceased . |
27 | Microsoft 's Jack Fogg claimed it would be more accurate to say that Windows NT is ‘ a better Unix than Unix ’ than ‘ a better Windows than Windows ’ , which is probably good news for Unix as well . |
28 | difficult to persuade another to take advice , and it is the more difficult which is most pleasant doing … ' |
29 | Today the argument as to which is best still rages . |
30 | He is also a keen writer , having contributed to The Daily Telegraph and is working on his first book , a fictional work based loosely on his life story , which is already attracting interest from Central Television , who may serialise it . |