Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sadly , the actual choice is limited to what is available in the trade .
2 ‘ If all that is said about you is true , then you ought to know , ’ Jehan observed .
3 At the same time , at a micro level an assumption is made about who is racist and who is not in terms of a set of essential defining properties or predispositions .
4 No distinction is made between what is grammatical and ungrammatical .
5 Penetration in many instances is not related to a property of the organism itself , in most instances it 's re related to some form of injury in which the organism is moved from it 's normal skin location to a deep tissue location .
6 Transformer T1 , of course , steps down the main voltage which is connected to it 's primary winding .
7 In any case , if such a qualification is called for it is hard to see how a creature with no rationality at all could possess it .
8 Persian is also one of the two principal languages of Afghanistan , is spoken in what was Soviet Central Asia , and was for centuries the official language of much of the Indian subcontinent , where many fine poets wrote in Persian .
9 Parliament is united on what is wrong with the Soviet economy .
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