Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [det] [noun] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything 's back of everything else : you 're all elbows and kneecaps with your cheek crushed against the copper viscera . |
| 2 | Oh , it 's that man that lives near Anne int it ? |
| 3 | It 's that stuff that comes out of a tin that 's very rich |
| 4 | It 's that box that tells the fire brigade that there 's a fire . |
| 5 | In many ways it 's that role that has supported the success of Connections . |
| 6 | And it 's that devotion that 's just won him the title of Britains most romantic top tycoon . |
| 7 | It 's that flippancy that makes the listeners love him ; three hours ’ broadcasting a day is usually enough to use up the excess , but he does n't work weekends . ’ |
| 8 | It 's this thought that remains uppermost in the mind of coach Ian Birtwell as he looks back on those sixteen memorable days in October when Canada came charging so boldly from the ranks of the ‘ possibles ’ to achieve quarter-final status . |
| 9 | And they 're sure it 's this attitude that has made them so successful . |
| 10 | It 's this region that produces half the country 's wealth … exporting tons of fish and timber all over the world . |
| 11 | And it 's this muscle that makes the whole leg go like that . |
| 12 | But when I look back , I think it 's this path that 's been ploughed for me . |
| 13 | It 's another thing that makes me wonder if the crazed geniuses who developed the first Intelloids were n't perpetrating some subtly painful joke on the human race . |
| 14 | It is that response that makes the digits of birds , mice , and men different . |
| 15 | He defined shared values in the 1980s in the broadest sense , But I maintain not only that it is valid to speak about shared values in that sense , but also that it is that commonality that defines us as a society . |
| 16 | It 's a hard thing to talk about and difficult to define , but it is that essence that makes an event special , different from the rest , even from similar occasions in other years . |
| 17 | But if to an alehouse they customers be , Then presently with the ale wife we agree ; When we come to a reckoning , then we do crave Twopence on a shilling , and that we will have , By such cunning ways we our treasure do get , For it is all fish that doth come to our net . |
| 18 | The second will be evoked when the consequences of the stimulus are uncertain ; it is this reflex that tracks the value of α. * |
| 19 | wolf suggests that it is this sector that provides the catalyst for rebellion and he shows how , in six major revolutions in the world , it is the middle peasantry who have formed the pivotal group for peasant action . |
| 20 | It is this sector that has suffered most from the low pay strategies of the Conservatives and from unemployment . |
| 21 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 22 | However , it is this concern that has led students of social policy to give increasing attention in recent years to the activities of that group of public servants who may be called ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ , to ask questions about what actually happens in the exchanges between these people and the public . |
| 23 | The presently accepted age range for Sivapithecus is 12.5 to 7Myr , and it is this date that provides the earliest evidence for the splitting of the orang-utan from the other hominoids . |
| 24 | Wimpey Environmental has built its reputation on the quality of its measurement work , and it is this element that distinguishes us from our rivals . |
| 25 | It is this principle that forms the central consideration in my example of the stylistics of embellishment , Auerbach 's Mimesis , and I shall explain it further shortly . |
| 26 | A further attraction of the approach is its discussion of the role of such resources in deciding how to respond to changes unanticipated at the start of a contract : it is this feature that adds a fundamentally dynamic element to the theory . |
| 27 | It is this feature that makes the identification of a ‘ collective strategy ’ largely shaped by two strong-minded headteachers possible . |
| 28 | This is perhaps inevitable since deconstruction resists teleology , and it is this resistance that has enabled its enemies to call it nihilist . |
| 29 | It is this concept that lies at the back of R. P. A. Edwards ' attack on dial-access retrieval systems : |
| 30 | It is this stress that keeps the fluid closer to the wall moving ; in its absence this fluid is slowed down by viscous friction at the wall . |