Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I have said to Neil and Neil is honest but once or twice he 's said things and I 've said , no Neil ! |
| 2 | Walker is more than just one of the all-time great middle distance runners , he was a pioneer , a barrier breaker who set new standards of performance and of attitude towards the art of miling . |
| 3 | The carpet has obviously been in the family for years , too , and the Rembrandt is unrestored and almost completely black . |
| 4 | Hilton is aware that ultimately the lord will be best judge of what helps him most , but he suggests that every day should start with an effort to discipline his whole attention to God . |
| 5 | Raskolnikov is self-divided and also separated from the human family in a way which for Dostoevsky is both social and religious . |
| 6 | Far left : St Benoit Brie is softer and mildly less creamy with a slightly runny centre . |
| 7 | As a broad generalisation I 'd say Luba Edlina is darker and more probing with the music , making it sound more serious and perhaps less mercurial than usual . |
| 8 | Othello is larger-than-life and never more so than when determined to die , as White demonstrates in a nobly paced resumption of dignity in the difficult final scene . |
| 9 | Of these four men — Ken is fit and still working part-time , Brian was given a war pension because of his deafness , Pat is well , but Dave suffers dangerously low blood-pressure which his doctor ca n't explain . |
| 10 | With its second centenary fast approaching , the Louvre is keener than ever to put some of the lesser-known sections of its collection on public view . |
| 11 | Yet , despite an increase of spending on health in the UK from 3¼ per cent of national income in 1948 to over 6 per cent ( of a much larger national income ) forty years later , it is alleged that the NHS is underfunded and periodically in a state of near collapse . |
| 12 | East of Swansea Bay , folding in the Vale of Glamorgan is gentler and partly concealed by Mesozoic rocks . |
| 13 | Mr Redwood is 41 and academically impeccable . |
| 14 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
| 15 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
| 16 | Jimmy Dale Gilmore is wild and wiggly , Nanci Griffith is captured in her old folksy form and Percy Sledge sings a Hank Williams tune — just to remind us that country music is n't simply a WASP-y preserve . |
| 17 | Gemma is glamorous as always , her lips a large pucker of blood red , her hair a shock of bleached white-blonde , her legs fish-netted and mini-skirted , high Doc Martens on her feet . |
| 18 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 19 | Giggs is crap as well . |
| 20 | Look at the start of the play — Catherine is devoted to Eddie and Eddie is kind and even jokes about her independence — this is seen on page 21 , when Eddie says that Catherine will move away when she gets a job ( but this is said without resentment ) and Catherine denies it . |
| 21 | Patterning is widespread and often spectacular in the Arctic . |
| 22 | Last night a spokesman at Middlesbrough General Hospital said : ‘ Baby Bogdan is fine and quite lively . |
| 23 | Unlike 99 per cent of all known pop persons , Martin is friendly and absolutely genuine . |
| 24 | But Voyager is more than just a pretty face ; one would expect no less from Volker Schlondorff . |
| 25 | ‘ At least Farrah is safe and well and for that we are grateful . |
| 26 | Now the firm is offering a reward of five thousand pounds for information leading to an arrest and conviction … just thankful Geoff Cooper is safe and well . |
| 27 | The mass of the PFM is unknown and therefore the abundances are not to be regarded as the number of atoms per kilogramme of PFM , 20 Ne being arbitrarily placed at 10 22 atoms per kilogramme to facilitate comparison with the graphs for the planets . |
| 28 | This means , of course , that VMP is infeasible and therefore has no efficient solutions . |
| 29 | He may not be a rock 'n' roll comedian , but TV 's Mr Sardonic PAUL MERTON is more than just an ubiquitous face , and ANDREW COLLINS salutes him |
| 30 | At this Lear is outraged and all too rashly curses his once most beloved daughter , disowning her in his fury ; |