Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she is finished and suitably stunning , regally stunning , I am disappointed . |
| 2 | Future tapes will provide information on wine and then meat and it is intended that ultimately all specialist areas will be covered . . |
| 3 | It is said that mentally handicapped people do not normally enjoy a happy life . |
| 4 | It is said that mentally handicapped people die young . |
| 5 | It is presumed that even preferential dividends are payable only if declared . |
| 6 | It is conceded that not all may accept this view of the law . |
| 7 | It is seen as fundamentally important to ensuring good corporate governance . |
| 8 | Rather , it treats them as ‘ given ’ , in the sense that it is seen as neither plausible nor fruitful to attempt a causal explanation of them . |
| 9 | It is seen as very helpful in some areas but entirely unsuitable in others . |
| 10 | If there is surprise among outsiders at his rapid rise , within the bank it is seen as totally predictable . |
| 11 | It is hoped that both this trophy , and the unique race for which it is awarded , continue to appear every third Thursday in March . |
| 12 | In view of this generous gesture it is hoped that both local and visiting climbers will treat this venue with the respect due to a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a first class example of sandstone rock . |
| 13 | Course centres will be introducing the new scheme this autumn and it is hoped that even more students will be encouraged to work towards a Machine Knitting qualification . |
| 14 | It is hoped that even more nursery places for the county 's three and four-year-olds will be provided soon . |
| 15 | It is hoped that as many as 90 per cent of all school children will take part . |
| 16 | It was agreed that the official opening of the museum take place at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday 24th October 1992 — when it is hoped that as many members as possible will attend . |
| 17 | Courses in Accountancy and European and Human Rights Law are being set up and it is hoped that as many pupils as possible will attend them , but for economic reasons it has been decided not to make them compulsory this year . |
| 18 | It is hoped that as many people as possible can be there on the day . |
| 19 | In the enterprise of seeking to understand consciousness as something more manageable and decently scientific than what it calls ghostly stuff , it is understood as yet less than ghostly stuff . |
| 20 | Good communication means that the customer fully understands Hickson 's plan , how it is progressing and how any new information learned will affect short and long term outlooks . |
| 21 | The Conservatives would continue to commercialise and privatise the NHS until it is run as just another business . |
| 22 | On this basis alone the islands have clearly exceeded their carrying capacity , the more so when it is realised that almost all the food imports are in the form of foreign aid . |
| 23 | It is argued that geographically constituted groups such as community organisations are not necessarily representative of socially diverse populations . |
| 24 | First , it is felt that too much " sleeping around " may provoke jealousies and rivalries damaging to military morale . |
| 25 | The style has tremendous rhetorical power in that the analysis reveals the obverse of the obvious and yet it is treated as still obvious . |
| 26 | It is believed that over six million men , women and children died in concentration camps under Nazi domination . |
| 27 | It is believed that considerably more connections have not been discovered and so not broken up . |
| 28 | Most people feel an obligation to keep in contact with their siblings , but beyond that it is regarded as quite proper for relationships to vary in the level of intimacy and the type of support offered ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 ; Allan , 1979 ) . |
| 29 | At one extreme , it is regarded as self-evidently nihilistic , a dissolution of reality into textuality . |
| 30 | Another revealing recurrence in these plays is the way that male sexual jealousy , even as it is represented as obsessively heterosexual in its demands , produces eroticized images of the rival male which are inseparable from the denigration of the woman : |