Example sentences of "is [adv] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we come to power , my dear Schiller , ’ Frick had concluded , ‘ we shall return what is rightfully theirs to those who have supported us . |
| 2 | I am trying to find work but there is just nothing at all . |
| 3 | And one of the things we must n't do , in fact , is to assume that erm our seventeenth ancestor is just ourselves in funny clothes . |
| 4 | By the time I reach it , at this time of year , the house itself is usually nothing but one or two lighted windows in the darkness , with perhaps my wife and daughter ( see separate headings ) visible inside . |
| 5 | White-water rafting , walking , climbing , tennis , golf and swimming either in pools or lakes are all available and if you want to travel with your family , there is genuinely something for all ages . |
| 6 | Whether a country has a codified constitution is hardly something of great importance to the political scientist . |
| 7 | Levine contends that these tracts , even as they confidently sermonize on the fixed nature of identity , especially gender identity as prescribed by God and signified through dress difference , display a deep anxiety that identity is not fixed ; that , underneath , the self is really nothing at all ( ‘ Men in Women 's Clothing ’ , 126 and 128 ) . |
| 8 | It is gratifying that , whereas 10 years ago only one in nine of visitors to Northern Ireland was a pure holiday visitor , the figure is now one in five . |
| 9 | It is now one in five . |
| 10 | In summer there is often plenty of wet weather too . |
| 11 | The answer , in institutional terms , is almost nothing at all — and this is precisely the problem . |