Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | And from its summit it is entirely possible to see a stretch of water which — whether to a sixteenth-century viewer innocent of the details of geography , or to a well-versed wanderer five centuries later — could only be an ocean . |
| 2 | This was the first time there has been a flower show at Hampton Court Palace , and in my opinion it is a wonderful innovation which I hope will become an annual event . |
| 3 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 4 | The National Government had been allotted a definite task , and on its completion it is understood that Parliament should be dissolved as soon as circumstances permit , and that each of the parties should be left free to place its policy before the electors for their approval . |
| 5 | ‘ You have served your theme well , and to my mind it is one that both needed and deserved the service . ’ |
| 6 | In this case that certainly was not so ; the ordinary means of access to the house was from the front of the house and to my mind it is very doubtful whether this yard could be regarded as a means of access to the house at all … in my view the section can not be extended beyond what was held in Brown 's case so as to include a yard of this kind . |
| 7 | It sits upon a throne , an absolute monarch , unafraid of any princely off-spring still unborn and by its Subjects it is hated , feared , revered and loved , known by all and recognized by none . |
| 8 | ( It turns out that there may be a number of lexicons used by the skilled reader — for input and output processing , and for input of words by sight or sound — but for our purposes it is sufficient to talk of the lexicon as the store of word meanings . |
| 9 | ‘ End of an era ’ is a phrase too often used to lament a death , but in her case it is appropriate . |
| 10 | But in its way it is more exciting and more of a challenge than the current enthusiasm for plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading . |
| 11 | Clearly , the telephone interview is attractively cheap , but in my opinion it is also a technique which could well irritate the respondents approached . |
| 12 | This may be difficult , but in my view it is possible . |
| 13 | ‘ It is something to be cherished and nurtured , adapted and improved , but in our country it is in mortal danger . ’ |
| 14 | This is potentially a glorious voice — one senses that instinctively — but to my ears it is at present just a voice , an instrument . |
| 15 | But to my eye it is beautiful . |