Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I tell you , colleagues , am I glad that meeting was before this Congress .
2 And erm we got there and I says to my husband I says , oh , I says er , are you sure that tent 's safe ?
3 Are you sure that Sergeant did n't take the shot gun from you and put it against er Mr head ?
4 Are you sure that button will come out on its own ?
5 Are you sure that button will come out on its own ?
6 How are you this fine morning ? "
7 Are we all that superfit ?
8 Yes , are we free this evening ?
9 She said that had been her first earliest morning .
10 The question that 's behind that , however , of course , is what is the language itself , what are the words ; are they English words , or are they some other kind of words ?
11 How are they this fine morning ? ’ '
12 Where were you all last night ? ’
13 ‘ And were you ready last night at the party ? ’
14 Were they just another novelty ?
15 Were it any other company but MGN this might work .
16 She 's his one soft spot , from what we know about him .
17 It is her one great vice .
18 ‘ Why 's it that stupid colour anyway ? ’
19 Secondly , is it right that relief should be refused because the court disapproves of the applicant personally or of the motives behind the bringing of the application ?
20 Is it right that liability for the second most heinous crime in English law , which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment , should be satisfied by this relatively low grade of fault ?
21 The range of wines available for under £3 is vast , and by no means is it all rough plonk .
22 Or is it all one word ?
23 There 's lots of myths about Rachmanite landlords — is that really the case or is it one huge myth ?
24 So what is why is it that labour party oppose education spend ?
25 ( Is it that good colour vision at small visual angles has been more important for frugivorous monkeys than for our own recent ancestors ? )
26 Why is it that German competitiveness can stand the social chapter and British competitiveness can not ?
27 What , is it that fat woman that di spends ages pre
28 That is , if observation provides us with a secure set of observation statements as our starting-point ( an assumption that we have granted for the sake of the argument of this chapter ) , why is it that inductive reasoning leads to reliable and perhaps even true scientific knowledge ?
29 ‘ And is it that sublime confidence in yourself that prevents you from marrying her ?
30 ( Why is it that American Football , an infinitely more static , convoluted sport should draw such paeans of admiration from the same sportswriters who condemn rugby union matches for being dull and boring ?
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