Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she is about the same age as her stepson . |
| 2 | Moody , sensitive and sometimes secretive she is at the same time a little girl needing to be cuddled and a teenager requiring her own space . |
| 3 | It is with the latter sort of crime fiction that those of us who enjoy writing comedy will have most to do . |
| 4 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 5 | It might make sense to the financial director faced with a demand which far outweighs supply ; after all , this recycling of other houses ' wines is perfectly legal , but it is at the same time deliberately hoodwinking the public . |
| 6 | As the disturbance goes more deeply into the organism from the physical to the emotional plane , from the emotional to the mental and finally to the spiritual , it is at the same time becoming higher up in the organism as it is pictured diagrammatically in Figure 3 . |
| 7 | It is at the same time hovering between styles . |
| 8 | That she is so is essentially an untruth , but it is at the same time a socially undeniable fact , even today , although it was probably a more widespread one 20 odd years ago . |
| 9 | It is an irony that as the government makes great claims about its job creation record for West Belfast it is at the same time in the process of running down some major sources of employment in the area , most notably the Royal Victoria Hospital . |
| 10 | It is at the same time stressed , however , that it is not the " true function of literature " to engage with the contemporary " social problem " . |
| 11 | Mr Salmond said : ‘ I find it quite incredible that on the day this bungling Government is desperately trying to scramble out of a hole on pit closures , it is at the same time drilling itself into a well on oil jobs . |
| 12 | The personal waste and the loss of all that resource of experience is as humanly catastrophic as the crashing of Brazilian rainforests , and it is on the same level of abandonment . |
| 13 | It is to the latter process that I now turn . |
| 14 | It is to the latter pole of the conflict that we must now turn . |
| 15 | It is for the same reasons that I would now support the denationalization of British Rail . |
| 16 | It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism . |
| 17 | At its own level of ultra-miniaturization , it is of the same order of elaborateness and complexity of design as the human eye is at a grosser level . |
| 18 | It is during the latter part of this century , however , that historic barns and other traditional rural buildings have faced their greatest threat . |
| 19 | I ask a simple question to which I know that there is a simple answer , but I still think that it is worth a little time to discover it : why are the Government in such a desperate hurry to get the Bill back to the House on 26 February ? |
| 20 | It is about the same as we can anticipate in the next century , on the basis of currently predicted rates of greenhouse warming , according to scientists like Tom Wigley , Director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia . |
| 21 | It is about the same size as Rye . |
| 22 | They verified both predictions , and calculated the effective mass of a moving soliton. it is about the same as an electron 's mass . |
| 23 | It is about the same size as its jungle relative , weighing up to 100 lb ( 45 kg ) and measuring , nose to tail , as much as 7 ½ ft ( 2.3 m ) . |
| 24 | ‘ It is about the same risk as my drive from Oxford to London to take part in the jump . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Of course I 've got a plan , and you 'll see what it is in a few moments , if you 're too stupid to guess before that — ’ They swung round a bend and he swore suddenly and loudly . |
| 26 | Thus it is in the former that the manufacturer has the greater strategic motive for vertical separation , setting wholesale prices and charging franchise fees . |
| 27 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 28 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 29 | It is in the same binocular field with Epsilon , and as it is the only other fairly bright star in the field it is impossible to miss . |
| 30 | It is in the same field as the star 41 Capricorni ( 5.5 ) and is close to the limit of visibility with binoculars ; I have never seen it clearly without a telescope . |