Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] is [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The view that hooligans actually learn how to behave from the papers and reflect back to the public the image that has been created for them is not really borne out in personal interviews . |
| 2 | Policies that directly or indirectly impinge upon the objectives of the railways are formulated at a number of different sites within the state administration , and co-ordination between them is not always assured . |
| 3 | The only thing for me is really just to bring you up-to-date in terms of the V D U project and where we are with that . |
| 4 | And that question for me is never adequately answered by Kurt Diemberger 's text . |
| 5 | ‘ Your opinion of me is just about rock bottom , is n't it ? ’ |
| 6 | Because I lived away from men for so long , part of me is now permanently closed to them . |
| 7 | The learning that is characteristic of higher education is not all of a piece ; some of it is not properly described by the limited concept of learning . |
| 8 | Most of it is n't even scrap iron , but there may be a few pieces I could use . ’ |
| 9 | Much of it is now irrecoverably lost ; for the lack of interest in the experience of ordinary old people shown by historians is mirrored in the scanty documentation which survives from the past . |
| 10 | And 44 percent of it is never even opened or read . |
| 11 | 2 In spite of the enormous flow of creative production by women over the last 20 years or so , much of it is still little known outside ‘ feminist art ’ circles . |
| 12 | Practically all the land above 1,500 feet falls into this category and a great deal of it is so poorly drained that only the sourest peaty soils are found . |
| 13 | Similarly , the mechanisms for heat transport in ocean currents is also mysterious , as the amounts of both heat and water within them is not well defined . |
| 14 | A rub on the withers from you is often greatly appreciated in return ! |
| 15 | Hick played what in others is a plain forward-defensive shot but for him is so sweetly timed that it brings four through mid-off . |
| 16 | Recording teachers teaching in order to play it back to them is sometimes loosely described as microteaching . |
| 17 | Writing about the novel in 1 927 , Eliot stated that ‘ nearly every contemporary novel known to me is either directly affected by a study of psycho-analysis , or affected by the atmosphere created by psycho-analysis , or inspired by a desire to escape from psycho-analysis … |
| 18 | Indeed , when the academic discipline of ‘ criminology ’ is referred to it is almost invariably taken to mean only positivist criminology in this wider sense , with its extensive research and literature and established ( though competing ) theories . |
| 19 | Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited , JCI , or ‘ Johnnies ’ as it is more affectionately known , is once again a major shareholder in Johnson Matthey . |
| 20 | When there is a great wish for something to be true but the evidence for it is not yet complete , it can require great strength to resist the pressure to say more than the data warrant . |
| 21 | Unsolicited information gives rise to difficulties for it is not clearly established whether this may be made subject to an obligation of confidence . |
| 22 | The evidence for it is very thinly spread , although there is one rather strange letter written in this year to Mary Hutchinson , in which he questioned the importance which anyone attached to his friendship . |
| 23 | Surprisingly , perhaps , in an irreligious age , nearly a third of the highest prices were for works associated with the Bible , showing that , if the conclusion is not too naive , respect and affection for it is still deeply ingrained and that , at least in fine editions , it is still a best-seller . |
| 24 | The animation is reasonable , the cowboy shooting at you is especially well done , and the action is also smoother than with the other two games . |
| 25 | Therefore the problem for us is not necessarily to get clients to install a new identity , but rather to find out which ‘ corporate communications ’ are unintelligible , and then to ask — in today 's cost-conscious times — whether it is worth putting them out at all . |