Example sentences of "[pron] is a [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is a theology in which Adam is unredeemed , and life itself a plague . |
| 2 | And Monsieur O'Hara , 'e is a man of his word . |
| 3 | The emphasis falls repeatedly on the individual , the self which is a law unto itself . |
| 4 | The men 's club which is a law unto itself |
| 5 | Other additions to make the supplement obsolete come mainly from the deep south , where Geoff Hornby and Suzi Sammut have been cruising around on their Luxury Liner ( E3 5c ) , which is a variant on their own Crinoid Cruise . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've invested our money back into a system others can come through , which is a way for us to stay fresh and help people we believe in . ’ |
| 7 | But we ca n't haunt places we 'd never been to , which is a bore for me , because I was so young when I died I 'd hardly been anywhere . |
| 8 | Challenges on this ground can be made at an earlier stage in the reference by a construction summons , which is a procedure by which a party who disputes the meaning of a document can apply to the court for a ruling . |
| 9 | ‘ At common law one 's duty to one 's neighbour who is the owner … of any goods is to refrain from doing any voluntary act in relation to his goods which is a usurpation of his proprietary or possessory rights in them . |
| 10 | This two-day sale of Impressionist and modern paintings , drawings and sculpture will put on offer a group of works on paper by Egon Schiele , one of which is a watercolour of his wife Edith signed and dated 1915 ( est. £300–400,000 ; $530–700,000 ) . |
| 11 | The Democrat Congressman Long has given full rein to his total unworthiness as a man and as a government functionary in his dealings with a country which is a friend to his government and to his nation . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that some dogs are naturally more aggressive than others , which is a reflection of their breeding . |
| 13 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 14 | I see little point in presenting the bream with more groundbait than is necessary , and anyway , if both of you catch fish then you are doubling the pleasure , or if your mate catches and you are unlucky , you can enjoy his success and net the fish for him , which is a pleasure in itself . |
| 15 | The two most powerful prose meditations attributed to Rolle , on the other hand , enact a painful penitential sense of the gap between the sour sterility which is a concomitant of what St Paul calls " the body of this death " ( Romans 7:24 ) and the joy and creativity of God , though comparison between them reveals different levels of engagement with the same theme . |
| 16 | Contemporary reviewers welcomed it in terms such as these : ‘ A work of this description is truly a national work ’ ; ‘ A work of unprecedented compass , a work which is a library in itself , a work which … affords … a first introductory key to every kind of human knowledge ’ . |
| 17 | Bernard 's emotional dishonesty is seen in terms of his ability to split language , which is a product of his psychological duplicity : |
| 18 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 19 | I know Jan uses them which is a recommendation in itself . |
| 20 | ‘ He lost 10 or 11 kilos , which is a lot for him . |
| 21 | Its brevity reflects its purpose as a link with specialized treatises on , for example , optics , X-ray crystallography and infra-red spectroscopy , each one of which is a discipline in its own right . |
| 22 | Richard Harris and Gene Hackman have been in Westerns before but never one as good as this ( indeed , Harris ' character 's inflation of his own pompous myth relates to the sham of his A Man Called Horse ) , which is a key to their characterisations and the way they are constantly stacked up against Eastwood . |
| 23 | There is the dispositional fact that I believe my name is what it is , which is a fact about me when I am not thinking of my name . |
| 24 | The basic guidelines is erm if somebody is a danger to themselves or other people then perhaps there is some way of helping them with an enforced medication or hospital treatment . |
| 25 | She can tap that source , channel the current , and direct it outwardly , but she herself is not that source ; she is a container for it . |
| 26 | She is a victim of her own propaganda . |
| 27 | She is a mother to the nation before she is a mother to her children , one might say . |
| 28 | Indeed , she is a foretaste of what we shall be getting in these other ships . |
| 29 | Two of Eva 's closest friends date from that time Ingrid Lindberg who is now head of the Salvation Army in Finland , and Miriam Vinti , who is a leader in her home territory , Italy . |
| 30 | And you are a girl , let us even say a young woman , who is a guest in my house . |