Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She confirmed what she has been attempting to gloss over in her bid to become deputy leader — that she is still as left wing as ever … a unilateralist in the mould of Tony Benn himself . |
| 2 | Their frustrations used to be articulated by Mrs Thatcher , but she is now as likely to be a cause of them as a cure . |
| 3 | In fact , language , through abstraction , is a much more efficient form or communication and possesses much more control over its interpretation , and it is rather that this difference in evocation is less likely to be evident in artefactual symbolism than in linguistic symbolism . |
| 4 | When they decide on a particular form of credit , their decision commonly has nothing to do with cost : it is simply that that form of credit is almost automatically part of the buying process that they 're used to . |
| 5 | One 's reason for doubt lies not merely in the way selection is made : it is simply that those selected have to be very independent indeed to withstand or divert the direction pushed by permanent staff , all of whom seem already to be behaving with unwonted circumspection . |
| 6 | It is simply that these conflicts , which once would have been more or less wholly contained within the personality , are now becoming externalized and , indeed , are transforming society . |
| 7 | It is simply because most diets involve immense change in eating habits and usually some degree of hunger ; they are too difficult for most people to maintain long enough to become slim . |
| 8 | It is not that that he needs , but forgiveness . |
| 9 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 10 | If I use the analogy of women 's fashion , it is not that all the women in the western world suddenly decided one morning to cut a foot or more off all their dresses and to appear to a shocked and/or delighted male world in mini-skirts . |
| 11 | It is not that such a fuel can not be produced , so much as the scale of production required . |
| 12 | It is not that such people are necessarily ‘ inadequate ’ , but that they feel themselves to be inadequate . |
| 13 | It is not that such agendas are unresponsive to data but they are not responsive by way of direct testing . |
| 14 | It is not that one part of Solidarity supports the free-market experiment and another does n't . |
| 15 | It is not that most of the people of southern Ireland are supportive or even tolerant of the terrorists . |
| 16 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 17 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 18 | It is not that these writers were necessarily against the idea of a science of society , but they did argue that the idea and practice of social science is not as straightforward as positivism would have us believe . |
| 19 | It is not that these issues are being dismissed in terms of their general abstract importance as a way of getting to grips with capitalism as a system . |
| 20 | It is not that these things are in themselves opposed to religion , but the possessiveness and distractedness which they tend to promote are . |
| 21 | It is not until that gift has been repaid and the exchange relationship put in balance again that a person will feel no sense of obligation . |
| 22 | Sir Daniel Fleming was certainly interested in the formerly productive mines in his fells around Coniston , but it is not until 1658 is there further note of mines and then not for copper viz : |
| 23 | It is not until these three conditions are present that the clause comes into operation . |
| 24 | He was still king in 779 when he granted land to the bishop of Rochester ( CS 228 : S 36 ) and it is not until 784 that a new king , Ealhmund , appears , granting land to the abbot of Reculver ( CS 243 : S 38 ) . |
| 25 | It is not because stout Egyptians are being suborned by wicked Iranians and Sudanese , as the regime would have the world believe . |
| 26 | If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future . |
| 27 | If the citizens of modern London are more productive in a material , measurable sense than those of ancient Athens , it is not because more of them are educated or because they are better educated . |
| 28 | The answer to those questions may be said to depend on whether it is generally as serious to obtain sex by deception as it is by other means ( threats , force , fear ) . |
| 29 | Because the procedure can not apply to development already started and it is generally as quick to apply for actual permission if the planning authority 's officer advises that it is necessary , this does not get as much use as might be expected . |
| 30 | Judge Donald Herrod added : ‘ This is a very dramatic turn of events and it is right that this prosecution should not continue . ’ |