Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] is [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only force which separates them is the Church , the one single coherent organisation in this country which binds like mortar the different races and degrees of this nation . |
| 2 | What really angers me is the exploitation of young women like us by advertisers , to sell their products . |
| 3 | The main thing that upsets me is the fact that she 's a bastard . |
| 4 | REFUSING drugs to a person who needs them is a disgrace to the medical profession — but this is exactly what some heart-care units in opt-out hospitals are doing . |
| 5 | What worries me is the fate of the fox if hunting stops . |
| 6 | ‘ What worries me is the assumption in the town is that the replay result is a foregone conclusion . |
| 7 | What they seem to do is indicate , often in very complex ways , just how the utterance that contains them is a response to , or a continuation of , some portion of the prior discourse . |
| 8 | But the reason he loves her is the reason she is hard to hold . |
| 9 | Instead , what linguistics owes us is an account of how textual " openness ' is possible within the social and psychological context of literature , and hence how alternative readings can be explicitly accounted for . |
| 10 | Near the top the trees die out and the landscape which replaces them is a shock , for here the rock enters into full possession , turbulent acres of it , broken and jagged . |
| 11 | ‘ She says she is the Contessa Sforza-Bellini , sir . ’ |
| 12 | What sustains him is the comfort he derives from the spiritual world of the Indian , as he escapes the alienating environment of the school to listen to Quechua music and to renew his bonds with the magical world of nature , but his experiences call into question the effectiveness of Quechua values in the white world in which he must live . |
| 13 | What antagonises him is the prospect of the civiliser being rendered savage , the moral made immoral . |
| 14 | He says he is a gentleman . |
| 15 | The paper can not name the man for legal reasons , but says he is a father of four and lives in New Cross , south-east London . |
| 16 | Now Mallius Seneca , who says he is the uncle of Seius Oceanus , is claiming the property on the ground of proximity , but Maximus claims it for himself since the person to whom he was asked to restore it has died . |
| 17 | I ask whether this property should belong to the trustee-heir , Captain Valerius Maximus , or to Mallius Seneca who says he is the uncle of the deceased boy . |
| 18 | Lady Thatcher , furious at his reluctance to save the Serbs with British blood , says he is an accomplice to massacre . |
| 19 | He says it is a nuisance but he 's putting up with it . |
| 20 | The Olympic weightlifter Andrew Saxton who was sent home from Barcelona after a positive drugs test may be allowed to compete after all.The British Olympic Association says it is a possibility . |
| 21 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 22 | Lisa says it is a matter of gaining confidence with breastfeeding . |
| 23 | The Health expert , Chloe Fisher , says it is a baby 's right to be given the right to breastfeeding . |
| 24 | They 're being sold in lots of four … one includes this mask worn at a ball at the Royal Academy … following the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell and the scandal that followed , his widow says it is an epoch that is past and no longer part of my life . |
| 25 | They 're being sold in lots of four … one includes this mask worn at a ball at the Royal Academy … following the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell and the scandal that followed , his widow says it is an epoch that is past and no longer part of my life . |
| 26 | Mike Bettsworth , a freelance writer and Press consultant now living in a converted chapel in the small village of Bere Alston , on the banks of the Tamar Valley at the edge of Dartmoor , says it is the slowness of life in the West and the wide open spaces which appeal to him . |
| 27 | ‘ Pike the ditcher says it is the work of the Great Community . |
| 28 | This one' — he picked one up gingerly , near to the tip — ‘ says it is the reincarnation of Cleopatra 's asp . |
| 29 | A sign says it is the Governor 's office . |
| 30 | A pretty brunette Amber says hers is an attitude many , but not all , of her girlfriends share . |