Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I is there a lot there ?
2 Funk but not funk , jazz but not jazz — his is strictly no sell-out either way .
3 It has meant that she has only had two training sessions in the last month , which is scarcely the preparation necessary to face her hardest opponent in the world .
4 It is not necessary to examine each of these cases here , but sufficient to note that in each there is a disposition which is plainly a legacy sub modo yet which is subsequently described by the jurist as a trust .
5 In the city centre the only German buildings still standing are the ruin of the Gothic cathedral and the former stock exchange , which is nowadays the Palace of Culture for Sailors .
6 That can , of course , literally be satisfied by the Unit General Manager ( UGM ) preparing a piece of paper which is simply a statement of intent .
7 Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) .
8 In hotel and catering accounts , the sales day book is replaced by the visitors ' tabular ledger , which is simply a form of analysed or columnar book-keeping .
9 My children love to play this game which is simply the water variant of ‘ What 's the Time Mr Wolf ’ .
10 The angular attenuation of scattering is measured by the particle scattering factor which is simply the ratio of the scattering intensity to the intensity in the absence of interference , measured at the same angle θ .
11 It is convenient to introduce the idea of " switching angle " , which is simply the change in detected rotor position relative to the low-speed detected position .
12 Another method of determining the static position error involves the concept of " stiffness " , which is simply the slope of the static torque/rotor position characteristic at the equilibrium position .
13 In contrast , the mutant polymerases and CRP produce a pattern which is simply the sum of the individual CRP and polymerase footprints .
14 In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace .
15 This comes from training which is done at a speed close to , and occasionally above , your aerobic threshold — which is approximately the pace of your best 10 miles .
16 Interpolating between these two markers gave the energy of the peak as 2.5 MeV ( 2496 keV ) which is approximately the energy that neutrons produced by dd fusion have .
17 It is the failure to exercise this option which is ultimately the explanation for B 's situation .
18 As well as being able to make chargeable transfers and exempt transfers , under IHTA 1984 , s3(3A) a taxpayer may also make a potentially exempt transfer which is broadly a transfer which is assumed to be exempt from inheritance tax at the time of the gift but which may ultimately end up being a chargeable transfer because the donor does not survive the making of the gift by seven years .
19 Preventing pollution is one dimension of maintaining a safe environment which is largely a public rather than a personal responsibility .
20 In addition , there are some ideas about further changes that should be made to deal with poverty in old age , which is largely a problem for women .
21 We are committed to improving it further as a result of increased traffic , which is largely a consequence of the success of the east coast ports .
22 What is easier than to look at the most conspicuous item in the marketing budget and one which is largely the concern of an outside supplier , at that ?
23 But when a pipe is discharging polluted water into a river which is largely an effluent channel , the only ‘ victim ’ may be the public , with the impairment to such amenity value as may remain .
24 The problem with the International Data Corp figures is that they try to treat Unix workstations as a separate market rather than bundling Unix workstations and Unix servers together , which is presumably the reason for the implied figure for IBM Corp sales of only $558m , where IBM has implied total 1992 RS/6000 business of $2,000m .
25 The scheme of the 1954 Act is that if the lease is more than six months ( which is presumably the situation in your case ) and the premises are occupied for the purposes of your business , then the lease does not automatically come to an end .
26 The phase is characterized by inter articulation between the state and productive capital and by the participation of collective organizations in the state which is increasingly a welfare state .
27 If this royal retreat has been trampled by an enthusiastic tourist — which is increasingly the case — the insect is doomed .
28 The raising of children is an intensely private family matter which is nevertheless the subject of equally intensive public debate and concern .
29 And , it would not work because the arrangement 2x + y does not provide a means of bringing accountability to bear on the performance of management : for it is highly improbable that a group of people which is primarily a derivative from two opposed and irreconcilable interests can effectively be called to account by either ; and the addition of a third group accountable to no one further confounds the confusion .
30 And , finally , a party which had seen itself as being part of a process of international socialist revolution , linked with the Russian revolution of nineteen seventeen , becomes a party which is primarily a party of Chinese nationalism .
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