Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is trite law that in general a doctor is not entitled to treat a patient without the consent of someone who is authorised to give that consent . |
| 2 | Given the decline of rural rail and bus routes ( chapter 6 ) , it is private transport that is most likely to be important , and access to cars and motorbikes is highly selective in terms of age , sex , income and social class . |
| 3 | But it is personal relationships that emerge as the primary focus of this biography . |
| 4 | It is of course an external system , well over 150000 light-years away , and it is sheer coincidence that it lies almost behind the two globulars , 47 Tucanæ and NGC 362 . |
| 5 | It is good news that the introduction of GCSE has endorsed this kind of methodology and response . |
| 6 | So it is good news that Sir Bryan Carsberg , new Director General of Fair Trading , is questioning both these practices . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is good news that , even in the teeth of an international recession , the Government have achieved reductions in interest rates , which means that the family man with an average , typical mortgage of £30,000 pays £100 a month less ? |
| 8 | It is good news that the increase in unemployment in this country last month was the lowest for almost a year . |
| 9 | It is Argentine law that when a man dies his estate must be divided equally between his children . |
| 10 | It is future misbehaviour that will not be tolerated . |
| 11 | Taylor said : ‘ It is pointless asking that , because I am not going to do it . |
| 12 | It is hopeless beauty that brings the tears to the eyes , a beauty we give to the dead hopes of our past . |
| 13 | The two 6-volt outputs will be in-phase , whereas it is out-of-phase signals that are required . |
| 14 | However , it is repetitive movement that has the most soothing effect . |
| 15 | But there is no late date set into the legislation , only that ratification when it is required means that from the first of the following month then the elections on the new constituency boundaries may take place under the new er European rules so that a decision is of course for an election in June er is in fact needed by the first of May . |
| 16 | The emphasis in ‘ black crime ’ has focused on youth , and consequently it is black youth that have been portrayed as folk devils who make the streets unsafe . |
| 17 | It is little surprise that they are saying that for the time being they will give Mrs Cresson the ‘ benefit of the doubt ’ . |
| 18 | Thus if it is aggregate demand that requires controlling , monetary policy is a poor weapon to do this . |
| 19 | It is small wonder that they want out . |
| 20 | It is small wonder that many dons ( as teachers at Oxford are called ; a shortening of Latin dominus ) develop a kind of crust , a persona , a ‘ character ’ to help them through these increasingly one-sided experiences . |
| 21 | It is small wonder that the truck and bus manufacturers based in areas hit worst by acid rain , Volvo and Scania in Sweden and MAN in Bavaria , are working hardest to cut pollutants . |
| 22 | It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ . |
| 23 | Having been taught that , at a time when priests were not disagreed with , it is small wonder that John Kennedy should have involved himself , and thousands after him , in an anti-Communist crusade in Vietnam ; that Joseph McCarthy should have conducted his anti-Communist witch-hunts ; or that Casey should have made the fight against Communism his life 's work , even asking that money should be given after his death not for flowers , but for the contras . |
| 24 | Such studies have received a lot of publicity , so it is small wonder that the average family doctor suspects a psychological cause rather than a physical one , especially where patients complain of multiple symptoms . |
| 25 | When you spend the days feeling stretched to the limit and end them emotionally drained , it is small wonder that you want to spend the evening dozing in front of the television and half-term skiing instead of preparing lessons . |
| 26 | With such examples in mind , it is small wonder that developing countries feel equally free to use countertrade when short-term necessity over-rides any sense of the longer term and less certain consequences . |
| 27 | It is small wonder that the impression is given of a society drifting obsessively into ever more excessive sexual thinking . |
| 28 | It is small wonder that Paris became a Mecca upon which naturalists converged in droves once the disruptions of the Napoleonic wars had ended in 1815 . |
| 29 | It is small wonder that Darwin thought twice about threatening his own privileged position by identifying himself with a new twist on this old theme . |
| 30 | When the only choice appears to be between continuing depression or continuing the various problems associated with drink or drug use , it is small wonder that sufferers from Chemical Dependency constitute 30% of those people who commit suicide . |