Example sentences of "is [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theodore Barber of Medfield State Hospital in Massachusetts has carried out a series of experiments which suggest that there is nothing a hypnotised subject will do that a motivated non-hypnotised person will not do as well . |
| 2 | After his 74th minute strike , he admitted : ‘ My mum is my No 1 coach . |
| 3 | Is theirs a permanent assignment , analogous to the job of the supervisory nurse in the hospital ? |
| 4 | ‘ Is 'e a good strong lad ? ’ he asked his wife gruffly . |
| 5 | Thus has come about the present status of evolution of which man is the apparent culmination but not the real summit ; for he is himself a transitional being and stands at the turning point of the whole movement . ’ |
| 6 | Neil , as it happens , is himself a committed Scot , but the Scottish-based executives say that it is not the current incumbent of that post , but the fact that the regional directorate enjoys ultimate power of veto which worries them . |
| 7 | This program was written by Raphael Salgado , who is himself a first-degree black belt , so he could use a Karate program that he enjoyed and was realistic . |
| 8 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 9 | It 's like saying why is somebody a better pianist than his colleague , even though they both went to the same conservatory . |
| 10 | Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that . |
| 11 | ‘ The Real ’ rides a Hendrix riff and is none the worse for it . |
| 12 | After removing ten to fifteen worms from the upturned roots the piece of lawn is returned to its original position , patted down firmly and is none the worse within a week or two . |
| 13 | It is difficult , given Korngold 's Hollywood output , not to imagine this as a mighty movie score , but it is none the worse for that , and those existing admirers of Korngold 's music should get great pleasure from this . |
| 14 | As a whole the reading calls to mind that of Del Monaco ( Karajan/Decca ) , and is none the worse for that , but misses the better manners of Pavarotti ( Solti/Decca ) and Domingo ( Maazel/EMI ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Truth to material ’ , like any other passionately held belief , can inspire good work , but it is no more a necessary than it is a sufficient condition , and Greek art is none the worse for being innocent of the notion . |
| 16 | He is none the worse for it . ’ |
| 17 | John Searle has compared the computational view of mind to an Englishman who has no understanding of Chinese processing Chinese symbols according to rules which correspond to the grammar of Chinese : what he deals with may be meaningful Chinese sentences , but he is none the wiser . |
| 18 | the wife is none the wiser , She 's got us |
| 19 | Following a full day of debate on the Loyal Address and two days on the Second Reading of the Bill , the country is none the wiser about what the Labour party proposes on local government finance , save in one crucial respect : we now know that it is committed to ending all control on local authority expenditure . |
| 20 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 21 | The former is itself a fascinating tale that will surely be told in full elsewhere , of how interested parties helped to orchestrate the episode and stimulate financial investments in ways that have been widely criticised in the scientific community . |
| 22 | Despite this caveat , however , the frequency with which images of health , construction and " the growth of the new man " in the Soviet Union are contrasted with images of sickness , decay and decline in the capitalist West is itself a telling statement on the intellectual climate of the time . |
| 23 | It has been pointed out that the location of those markets is itself a telling advantage to Scottish traders because they all have weak currencies ( the lira and peseta ) while former German and Dutch suppliers are forced to trade with the strongest ( the deutschmark and the guilder ) . |
| 24 | The counter-move to such complaints is to say that the concept of lucidity is itself repressive , and that unravelling Derrida 's meanings is itself a deconstructive act , directed against hegemonic ideological positions . |
| 25 | At the same time the adrenalin surge is itself a strong feeling and any strong feeling can be a trigger factor in stimulating the urge to use other mood-altering substances or processes — It is therefore advisable for people in recovery from any form of addictive disease that they should avoid gambling and other forms of risk-taking as far as possible . |
| 26 | The concept of the individual actor is itself a political construction , highly charged and central to much western political practice ; it can be used , for instance , to give the impression that ‘ choice ’ is being exercised when analysis of the deeper political and economic structures would indicate that there is no real choice . |
| 27 | Whether pupils ' behaviour is itself a political statement or not , the aggressive forms impress themselves onto educational politics . |
| 28 | This documentation is itself a rich source of material for evaluation . |
| 29 | The free movement is particularly beneficial for Britain , which is itself a major overseas predator , particularly in the US , helping to accumulate overseas assets , the earnings from which contribute to the balance of payments . |
| 30 | The duty to compensate the defamed person is itself a moral duty . |