Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hour over her feed she is that little baby . |
| 2 | The reasons they push it on you is that young people particularly do activities that are liable to get infection . |
| 3 | Won thing we should tell you is that last summer Benitses sold out fast . |
| 4 | But beyond her is that other destiny as yet unfulfilled — the struggle for justice in South Africa today . |
| 5 | Conversely , on the materialist model it is much more homophobia itself , as an aspect of the construction of homosexuality and independently of the question of the actual subjective repression of desire , which helps secure a coerced identity and social organization ; homophobia enforces the heterosexual norm by policing its boundaries : ‘ Homophobia is only incidentally directed against homosexuals — its more common use is against the 49% of the population which is male … |
| 6 | It is much more effort for the speechreader than it is for you . |
| 7 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 8 | It is such contrary themes which can provide the content for the internalized dialogue , which could be said to constitute deliberative thinking ( Billig , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | It is such relentless attention that makes her garden so spectacular for so much of the year . |
| 10 | How good of you to do all that work — and it is such hard work ! |
| 11 | It is such universal perceptions as those of Darcy and Lady Julie that mark out Keneally as a major novelist . |
| 12 | It is such non-local visits that raise the most serious problems of accessibility and are of the greatest importance to rural transport policy-makers ( Clark and Unwin 1981 ) . |
| 13 | It is such measurable levels of activity over a given time period however which provide a means of support and comparison . |
| 14 | Look instead for a degree of suppleness in the fabric and the extent to which the colours alter their intensity when viewed from different angles ; the more readily they submit to subtle changes in the direction of the light source , the more likely it is that good quality silk has been used . |
| 15 | So it is that close attention to the language itself and reference to systemic knowledge allows us to negotiate meaning and acquire the kind of information which for the reader in the schematic know is provided in advance . |
| 16 | Erm , we do know quite a lot about erm , why it is that when you diet you start to think about food all the time , and why it is that certain things happen , and I think that there 's more and more information and knowledge being gathered and yes , the na , the desire to change has to come from the individual but perhaps , having clinics available where people can go when they 're ready to change or where they can get help . |
| 17 | To sum up the hybrid theory that has emerged : it is that non-reinforced pre-exposure to a stimulus will allow the formation of potentially interfering associations and bring about a loss of associability . |
| 18 | It is that forensic report and another on the comparison of blood samples from the victim and on a tissue found in one of Beattie 's jackets , but not the one he was wearing on the night of the murder , which those trying to clear his name now want released . |
| 19 | For it is that negative role that hampers his performance and holds him back in his development . |
| 20 | Rather it is that Labour needs to defend — and , on these figures , regain — its traditional class base at the same time as completing the process of modernisation and colonising the new political territory of the 1990s . |
| 21 | It is that legal fiction which the health authority relies upon in denying liability to the plaintiff . |
| 22 | Participating in a benchmarking exercise may tell you that your performance in a particular area needs to improve , but unless you also find out how it is that other companies are beating your performance , you may not feel much the wiser . |
| 23 | Unless you also find out how it is that other companies are beating your performance , you may not feel much the wiser |
| 24 | In order to understand why it is that homoclinic orbits are such important features of the Lorenz equations , we will examine the change of behaviour of the system as r passes through a value at which a homoclinic orbit like that shown in Fig. 6.1a occurs . |
| 25 | It is that permanent element in human nature which causes the soul to be restless until it realizes itself to be at one with Truth or God . |
| 26 | If any one element in his style is to be singled out as predominant , it is that haunting expression of far-away desire never absent from the eyes and lips , and conveyed in every gesture , feature and attitude . |
| 27 | The greater the distance , social , geographical and occupational , between those who are supposed to work together , the more likely it is that unhelpful stereotypes will flourish and that there will be fundamental misconceptions about others ' roles and functions . |
| 28 | It is that very distance that has allowed the memory of Vietnam to take on such a glow of nostalgia . |
| 29 | Yet this childhood query , already asked and not answered millions of times , is of profound importance , for it is that very question , and its non-answer , or obviously insincere answer that , quite probably , has undermined child respect for adults to a greater degree than has all other causes put together . |
| 30 | But , it is that very fascination — bordering on fanaticism — with the game that has turned the Afrikaner sport into a political football , as the All Black and Wallaby tourists found out . |