Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [is] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though nothing came of this it is of interest because it anticipates the ‘ Cold War ’ methods by which Persia sought to infiltrate Greece in the second half of the century . |
| 2 | Much high praise has already come Mohicans ' way and it has done astounding US box-office business , but despite this it is on occasion a flawed film with a sometimes patchy pace and a structure that wobbles in the final 30 minutes . |
| 3 | But on the other hand , in doing this he is in danger of passing over altogether the notion of social ‘ repression ’ . |
| 4 | Praying that the real me is in touch with the real God . |
| 5 | As such it is of benefit to the whole organism and all its genes . |
| 6 | He knows these eagles very well and it is possible she is in pain … |
| 7 | Newcomers to night fishing are always surprised to find how cold it is at night , especially those few hours before and after dawn . |
| 8 | And she 's sure she 's in love with him . |
| 9 | And now if with your wish we can certainly go ahead and make sure it is in tip top condition . |
| 10 | I 'm sure it 's at home , Martin . |
| 11 | In response to a further query , he added irritably : ‘ Sure it 's about sex — what else would it be about with a title like that ? ’ |
| 12 | Paul he 's got , he 's er S one table tennis , you sure he 's on table tennis ? |
| 13 | John Schlesinger makes sure he 's in control of Darling ( 1965 ) |
| 14 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 15 | I du n no erm , no I do n't like them at all it 's in fact I 'm not even impressed with it I mean you look at the people with G six hundred and you look at the fifty six |
| 16 | Generally , the bigger the fish , the less vulnerable it is to predation . |
| 17 | It 's international it 's in North America with those . . |
| 18 | An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage . |
| 19 | If teachers remain sceptical it is in part because many actors at all levels ( including the Secretary of State himself ) still think simply in terms of adding ( a ) to ( b ) and ( c ) without modifying the relations between them . |
| 20 | That 's without mentioning how important it is for Suede to hurtle into people 's lives … |
| 21 | The more important it is in sea water , the longer its residence time . |
| 22 | Having worked for a number of years now in community health services , previously erm in Yorkshire , in fact I 've only been down in Oxford about four or five months , I 've learnt how important it is in fact to make good working contacts with members and officers of other organizations , and particularly of local authority organizations . |
| 23 | In the next ten months starting in September ninety one it 's in use for sixty four days out of a possible three hundred . |
| 24 | Once the metal is hot it is like putty . |
| 25 | It 's possible he 's in trouble . |
| 26 | This is another case which proves how vital it is for Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell to correct inconsistencies in sentencing . |
| 27 | We have to have some independent arguments about how easy or difficult it is for life to originate on a planet , before we can even begin to answer the question of how many other planets in the universe have life . |
| 28 | Talk turns to a familiar theme — the failure of the city to support new ideas , the segregation of black and white music , how difficult it is for dance music to get substantial airplay — most of all the struggle to make the rest of the city sit up and take notice of its thriving techno scene . |
| 29 | It 's easy enough to say this : I know from experience how difficult it is in practice ! |
| 30 | They invite the reader to consider what police work is , how necessary it is for society today and even on occasion how , paradoxically , certain sorts of " good " police work can bring about evil . |