Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [pers pn] is [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EASTER weekend is one of the busiest days of the year in such job-starved places as St Ives , Newquay and Falmouth and it is hardly any quieter in Blackpool , Southport and Morecambe . |
| 2 | Similarly , the role of occupational and private pensions is covered fully in the chapter by Dulcie Groves and it is therefore necessary only to highlight here the main features which disadvantage women and contribute to their greater likelihood of experiencing poverty in old age . |
| 3 | The UKAEA is still the legal name of AEA and it is still government-owned , but it is now a very different organisation from that created in 1954 . |
| 4 | Trained by Martin Pipe , Chatam put up a sterling effort in February when beaten a head by Jodami in the Hennessy Gold Cup in Ireland but he is also prone to errors . |
| 5 | Not only does he handle the commercial activities of Kew but he is also responsible for its little-publicised conservation work . |
| 6 | We discussed that point with President Yeltsin and it is very much on his mind . |
| 7 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman that British coal is the cheapest in western Europe , but it is certainly not cheaper than coal from the United States or Australia and it is still uncompetitive in world terms . |
| 8 | One of his few good friends is player John Emburey and he is also close to England manager Keith Fletcher . |
| 9 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 10 | In the meantime , the UK is now the third largest producer of beef and veal in the EEC , though its production of about a million tonnes is only half of that of France and it is only seventh in the table of per capita consumption at 22.3kg per annum . |
| 11 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 12 | ‘ There are a lot of collectors in Los Angeles and it is very hard to satisfy them all . |
| 13 | OLIVER Cromwell may be the local boy made good in Huntingdon but he is still unmentionable in Drogheda , as Lady Antonia Fraser recalled in a Lenten talk at Our Lady of Victories , west London . |