Example sentences of "[is] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan Bumstead , barmaid at The Tap , with the ale going that is down a treat in Italy |
| 2 | Europe lags some way behind the US in demanding clean diesels , and agriculture is down the timeline from trucks . |
| 3 | Police are now talking to a 30 year old friend of the family , who 's up a tree in the nearby woods , threatening to jump off a branch with a rope round his neck . |
| 4 | It 's up the side of the platform — I can just see the light over the door from where I 'm standing . |
| 5 | The correct answers were : British Rail 's racing promotion is Back a winner by train ; The Classic race run at Doncaster is the Coalite St Leger . |
| 6 | THE new Cosmetics to Go catalogue is out a treat for all those who like a good read as well as nice things . |
| 7 | His mother tells me he is out every night at some ‘ do ’ ' or other . |
| 8 | ‘ Most weeks he 's out a couple of evenings — talking to Women 's Institutes , Old Cornwall Societies , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 9 | According to Visser ( 1966 : 669 ) , it is around the time of the passage from Old to Middle English that one witnesses the beginning of this " shrinkage " of the non-past , which loses more and more ground to the constructions with will and shall . |