Example sentences of "is [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANDY ROXBURGH may have tried manfully to build a protective shield against hype around Duncan Ferguson yesterday but Dundee United 's forward will play for Scotland against Portugal in next month 's World Cup qualifying tie for one simple reason — there is no-one better . |
| 2 | This is me thirteenth child and I never had one with any of them . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ter tell yer the trufe this is me first interview , ’ he told her . |
| 4 | Being aggressive is about exactly what you put up here this is me this is how I feel about what we 're talking about . |
| 5 | Is everyone agreeable to the recording of today 's proceedings ? |
| 6 | Erm is everyone okay with that ? |
| 7 | Is everyone okay about that ? |
| 8 | Is everyone happy with that ? |
| 9 | Section one says , now for this everybody we 're thinking about the survey you did in the form room , from which you did your graphs , saying to people do you believe in god , have you visited a place of worship , is everyone clear about the piece of work we 're thinking about , speak to me . |
| 10 | That is everyone clear in what they have to do ? |
| 11 | Yet there is nothing gentle about these scorched mountains . |
| 12 | There is nothing revolutionary in these assumptions . |
| 13 | There is nothing illegal nor immoral in a club chairman 's demonstration of ball skills but the contrast , in a day , between the image of a shy , reclusive , multi-millionaire property tycoon and that of a terrace tearaway was too sudden to digest . |
| 14 | As the Home Secretary has said several times , there is nothing illegal about that . |
| 15 | There is nothing illegal in this method , to my knowledge anyway , but I avoid it because to me it seems like cheating . |
| 16 | Apart from cases where the Auctions ( Bidding Agreements ) Acts apply , there is nothing illegal in two potential bidders agreeing that one of them will not bid with the result that the one who does bid obtains the property more cheaply than he other wise would . |
| 17 | After all , there is nothing that the press like more than a good fairy-tale ! |
| 18 | And how we relate within the church and how we relate outside the church although , in essence , there is nothing outside the church there is nothing that that position . |
| 19 | There is nothing automatic about this . |
| 20 | There is nothing clever or manly about being dirty and smelly and you have every right to withhold your physical dealings with a body that revolts you . |
| 21 | There is nothing oblique about the labia-like rock formations and pubic seaweed of this extraordinary painting , and with Colquhoun 's characteristic subversiveness ‘ Scylla ’ can be interpreted equally convincingly as a pair of phallic forms , arising from an aquatic leafy crotch . |
| 22 | We 've known each for long enough to know that silence is better if there is nothing specific to say . |
| 23 | There is nothing specific about the ball bearings : nothing that makes them more suitable to one situation rather than another . |
| 24 | There is nothing doctrinaire about our approach to the matter . |
| 25 | Calm waters only belong to stagnant pools , and there is nothing stagnant about the new Conservative Britain . ’ |
| 26 | There is nothing superficial in comparing works of different times and cultures , so long as one is not making glib suggestions of direct linkages between them . |
| 27 | I here is nothing odd in that , for the two activities call for separate sets of accomplishments . |
| 28 | There is nothing odd in this ; the academic freedoms that the academic community enjoys generate their own academic ethic which members of the academic community should fulfil if they are to warrant those privileges ( Shils 1984 ) . |
| 29 | There is nothing odd about that . |
| 30 | There is nothing odd in it . |