Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English love affair with Tuscany is so well known that in the last century hotel porters in Siena called all foreigners English , even if they were German or Russian . |
| 2 | Polo parks ( one was constructed recently at Châteaux Giscours ) , marble bottling halls ( Michel Delon 's at Léoville-Lascases is so highly polished that workers have been issued with special boots ) , Versailles-style formal gardens with sunken cellars provide the spectacular icing on the cake of wealth accumulated by the leading châteaux over the last decade by the simple expedient of charging much more for their wines than it costs to make them . |
| 3 | The story of Ostia is less generally known than that of Pompeii and Herculaneum . |
| 4 | Both offices are in areas where Keith Pattinson is already strongly represented and the openings mark a consolidation of the company 's presence in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland . |
| 5 | From what we learned the first evening we were here , Rose is very well heeled and it 's obvious that by sharing her home , Dora enjoys a lot of luxuries she could never afford by herself . |
| 6 | In any case , Deutsche is now wholly opposed and has coaxed powerful friends into buying Continental shares to help block the bid . |
| 7 | This area to São Vicente is very sparsely populated and the road Passes through numerous tunnels and past cascading waterfalls , some of which give you a free car-wash , even in the summer when there has been no rain for months . |
| 8 | The prehistory of Islay is not easily understood and one must use a great deal of imagination to build up a picture from what has been learnt by Investigation and excavation , bearing in mind that isolated pieces of evidence may be entirely unrepresentative of the normal life of the community . |
| 9 | Denny Beresford , chairman of FASB , added further support to the view that the US is more strongly involved than ever in international financial reporting issues , while Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , emphasised industry 's pressing need for effective harmonisation . |
| 10 | I shows , Best ( 1981 ) has used lists and texts , in particular the agricultural census , to demonstrate that Britain is not excessively urbanized as shown in Table 8.2 , and to argue that more space should be allocated to homes and trees . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ It 's going to be tough , but I believe that BNFL is extremely well placed and superbly led by Neville Chamberlain . |
| 12 | Apparently in Hungary Shakespeare is very well read and very well thought of . |
| 13 | WADDON MANOR is more perfectly proportioned than almost any house I have ever seen . |
| 14 | Thus , for example , the simple Ben is also variously spelt as Beinn , Bheinn and Bienne , and Meal ( a hill ) also appears as Meall , Mheall , Meallan and Maolle ; furthermore , the vowels in the names bristle with accents sloping both ways . |
| 15 | TDC officials believe that TDC is less badly affected than other prison administrations with respect to the smuggling in of narcotics and other drugs . |
| 16 | After the completion of a £5.5M development over the last two years , Douglas Reyburn is now firmly positioned as one of the most modern spinning mills in the business and the largest woollen carpet yarn spinners in the country . |
| 17 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 18 | This is the fact that access to political decision-making in America is not equally dispersed as pluralist theorists have assumed . |
| 19 | For the protection and longevity of the bodywork , Safrane is even better protected than the Renault 25 with 52% of its body steel pre-protected by galvanisation or electro-zinc plating . |
| 20 | Er , whereas St John is as tightly controlled as a as a strong elastic band is n't he ? |
| 21 | Wales is almost always treated as though it were an offshoot of England although there is a small group of civil servants in Cardiff for specifically Welsh matters . |
| 22 | Inevitably , perhaps , the contralto Jard van Nes is rather closely balanced but the positioning of the boys ' voices and women 's chorus are well judged . |
| 23 | ‘ Now you know the truth , the Lady Prioress is no longer needed and Ranulf must be getting as cold as I am . ’ |