Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] is [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Even then , ’ says one of the filmmakers , ‘ Breathless was dramatically different than she is in the final script .
2 He is perfectly clear that it is in the terms provided by this framework that we are able to answer any ‘ limited ’ question about the causes of particular phenomena .
3 I must check those feelings which are the expression of physical instinct craving for satisfaction , but God knows celibacy is as painful to women ( even from the physical standpoint ) as it is to men — could not be more painful than it is to a woman .
4 It is interesting that it is in the work of a woman , Julian of Norwich , that Mary 's female willingness to be open to receive embodies that attitude which lies at the heart of contemplative experience .
5 A man can not be said to be truly willing unless he is in a position to choose freely , and freedom of choice predicates , not only full knowledge of the circumstances on which the exercise of choice is conditioned , so that he may be able to choose wisely , but the absence from his mind of any feeling of constraint so that nothing shall interfere with the freedom of his will ( Scott LJ in Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation [ 1944 ] KB 476 ) .
6 Different though it is from the practical syllogism , it resembles it in that its conclusions are always revisable in the light of further information , which imposes itself as relevant whenever it does turn out to alter spontaneous reaction .
7 The dietary fibre connection is not in any way as clear and direct as it is in the evidence concerning cancer of the colon .
8 Labour 's Peter Mandelson dismissed the remarks and added : ‘ It is impossible to imagine a housing market more depressed than it is under the present Tory government .
9 It is not surprising , therefore , that one finds this pattern in some of the ‘ softer ’ professional fields , such as social work and teaching , where the theory-practice relationship may be less one-way than it is in the ‘ harder ’ ones .
10 I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person .
11 There is also some indication that the appearance of particular items in particular columns is less easily shown as rule-governed than it is in the inner city .
12 Those who during the week at Lake Nona took the opportunity to ask questions about the running of America 's LPGA circuit , are convinced that it is to the players ' advantage that they leave the running of the association to its staff while they themselves concentrate on their golf .
13 It has been convincingly argued that the image of an advice-giving agency is crucial because it is at the stage of identification of the appropriate agency that most people are obstructed on the way to the solution of their problem .
14 The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought .
15 In this case , therefore , Burns 's idea of treating differences of status built on it as idle and artificial is just as appropriate as it is in the case of class .
16 it wo n't be as warm as it is in the April
17 Matching drives to an XT is n't as easy as it is with an AT , because the range of drive sizes it supports will probably be quite narrow .
18 What should that placid little people know of the rattle and rush of an express train , typical as it is of the nerve-wasting haste with which we Westerners live our lives ?
19 There is no evidence that after the mother 's appearance on Sunday Miss T. renounced her adopted lifestyle , sinful as it is in the eyes of the faith .
20 Fido can be trained to give the alert if someone is at the door , if the telephone is ringing or a visitor is coming up the path .
21 This calculation will be made on the basis of a broadly equivalent comparable house , that is , one which would broadly provide the same accommodation , due allowance being made for the location , for example , urban versus rural and which is in a location of broadly equivalent quality .
22 The company 's main business is in sheet fed offset and it is at the forefront of printing on recycled paper .
23 A spokesman for the Bristol-based Chelsea Building Society said : ‘ The timing is not ideal but it is at the end of a long series of events . ’
24 I suspect that your Phractocephalus hemiolipterus is already quite large as it is in an 8′ tank .
25 He is most relaxed when he is in the converted barn in Devon that is now his painting studio ; it is stone-floored and filled with light and quiet as a church .
26 ‘ We 're not sure where he is at the moment because he 's on leave , ’ said Major Astle .
27 Major Astle said : ‘ We 're not sure where he is at the moment because he 's on leave .
28 Second , if you are running your spur cable from an existing socket , you have to make sure that it is on the main circuit and is not itself a spur .
29 As will be considered further in Chapter 6 , the large value of institutional holdings , the comparatively small number of institutions , and their mutual accessibility , make joint action more feasible than it is in the case of individual shareholders .
30 The picture in relation to class inequalities in the geographical distribution of hospitals is even less encouraging than it is in the case of general practitioners .
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