Example sentences of "is [adj] [noun pl] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the vehicle is 30 years old they have probably been repainted or changed in the past unless your L.R. was a fire engine . |
| 2 | When he is 10 years older he will be happy with 65 every time . ’ |
| 3 | There are not many yews of this age left in Britain ; in fact if the tree is 2,000 years old it 'll be one of only about 40 trees in western Europe to have reached this age . |
| 4 | A As vintage Champagne is not released before it is three years old it is a relatively mature wine and is thus ready to drink when available in Sainsbury 's . |
| 5 | So this is ten times one and this is ten times ten we could cancel those out and we get |
| 6 | When a vine is five years old it is rested for a while before the practice of provignage is resumed , after which the layering process may continue for upwards of fifty years . |
| 7 | Whereas many otherwise ‘ progressive ’ disciples of Rousseau believed in controlling the entire environment of the child and programming its mind with carefully selected sense impressions , Wordsworth and Dorothy believed in complete freedom : ‘ Till a child is four years old he needs no other companions than the flowers , the grass , the cattle , the sheep that scamper away from him , when he makes a vain unexpecting chase after them , the pebbles upon the road etc . |
| 8 | I 'd like to go on living and working on Skomer but as my son is four years old I 'll soon be facing a dilemma over the need for his education and I might have no choice but to rethink our future . ’ |
| 9 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |