Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [vb pp] [art] [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 | ‘ I think 'e 's owed that , ’ said Sprott , ‘ I think 'e 's owed a generous tribute . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While it is a sociological question to ask about the way this came about , the image itself played an important role , one which is given an excellent analysis here . |
| 6 | Cut to blank screen onto which is projected an expensive jacket . |
| 7 | The lease contained the normal covenants for the payment of rent , full repairing covenants , a user covenant confined to the business of ‘ home improvement contractors , ’ and the usual qualified covenant against assignment , to which is appended the following proviso : |
| 8 | Legislative authority is shared between the RCC and the 250-member National Assembly , which is elected every four years by universal adult suffrage under a system of proportional representation . |
| 9 | A Cabinet led by a Prime Minister is responsible to a unicameral parliament ( Riksdag ) which is elected every three years . |
| 10 | A Cabinet led by a Prime Minister is responsible to a unicameral parliament ( Riksdag ) which is elected every three years . |
| 11 | TMO says the survey is based on information from a study called ‘ Observatoire Permanent des Etablissements , ’ which is conducted every two years among 7,000 enterprises , and from annual surveys of its large and medium-sized accounts and of computer distributors . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Something which is called the best of and at the same time this barrier , so again be aware . |
| 15 | A second-rank tensor can easily be constructed by contraction : which is called the Ricci tensor . |
| 16 | Mm , see this is a very difficult one to understand , it takes a lot of er working out , you see then he 's also applied , approached the city you see which is called the same thing is n't it ? |
| 17 | You can take out an extra saving for retirement which is called an additional voluntary contribution ( AVC ) . |
| 18 | The school manager , in contrast to his or her experience of GCSE , here has to struggle for clarity — a struggle which is made no easier by the over-simplified statements of policy about the unification of general and vocational education which are made by central government and by its political opponents . |
| 19 | It passes under a bridge , on the reverse of which is written the ominous words ‘ YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR ’ . |
| 20 | The American Sixth Fleet is more powerful than Soviet naval groupings in the Mediterranean and as previously observed it fulfils a strategic role which is denied the Soviet navy in this region . |
| 21 | 9 There hovers in Working Class Childhood the ghostly presence of more decent and upright children , serving their time in the restriction of poverty and family solidarity : " the old defensive culture of poverty gave working class children … a sense of security which is denied the present generation … " |
| 22 | The divergence of tissue lineages preceding implantation segregates three precursor populations : one that will give rise to the trophoblast , another that generates extra-embryonic endoderm and a third , the epiblast ( embryonic ectoderm ) , from which is derived the entire fetus and the extra-embryonic mesoderm ( 1 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The latter could be related to the impairment , by NSAID , of the gastric nucus layer , which is considered the natural habitat of H pylori organisms . |
| 25 | Factoring , which is updated every half year , provides an analysis of the industry ; a brief historical guide ; details of all major factoring companies ; the main institutions and regulatory bodies ; and a checklist for those considering factoring . |
| 26 | That the quality of the reactions of a period of life in which the superego did not as yet exist should be the pattern upon which is modelled the manic state ( the basis of which is temporary withdrawal of the superego ) is exactly what we should expect . |
| 27 | As soon as an assignment has been fully proofed it goes on to a list which is published every two months to all of the sales execs and you just look out for your number , all right ? and you 've got your own personal records of course , if you know you 've earned bonus then that 's where to claim it . |
| 28 | The Society produces a Journal " Conquest " , in which is published the annual Paget Lecture sponsored by the Society , and regular Newsletters which are sent to all members free of charge . |
| 29 | The only valid context for physical sex is marriage , by which is meant a permanent relationship , publicly acknowledged and entered into with mutual promises . |
| 30 | In the detailed examination of the spatial organization of Tyneside , use will be made of the idea of ‘ Northern Tyneside ’ , by which is meant the metropolitan districts of Newcastle and North Tyneside together with the adjacent county districts of Blyth Valley and Castle Morpeth . |