Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] is [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the introspective mood is upon them , as it is today , the Greeks will add that being special is not all fun . |
| 2 | Er , there is this curious erm , not quite sure what the right word is for it . |
| 3 | So I will make a personal attack on you the day after to-morrow , when the House will be full , and I will tell you beforehand what I 'm going to say and what the right come-back is for you to score off me . |
| 4 | Well , I 'll be joined later on in the programme by David Waldon , the leader of the Conservatives , but right now Eva Barnes , the Deputy Leader of the Labour group is with me , and John Cochrane from the Liberal Democrats is here . |
| 5 | ‘ Run forward comrade , the old world is behind you . ’ |
| 6 | Despite the difficulties and the continuing insecurity of support , Linda concludes that life for Elizabeth and Helen has been improved by their time in the community and that the hard journey is worth it . |
| 7 | The ideal solution is for her to go to stay with other members of the family to be cared for in their home , or for a relative to come to take over in your absence . |
| 8 | I wish to congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting ( Mr. Cox ) on choosing this subject for debate tonight , when the cold weather is with us again and the misery of the homeless increases . |
| 9 | We need to reflect , however , on what has just been said : in brief , that for something to be or to have a power in the primary sense is for it to enter into a possible causal circumstance . |
| 10 | But then if Lubavitch is right and the messianic age is upon us , the criticisms will scarcely matter very much . |
| 11 | The first step is for you and your family to be in complete control of your dog , then you can start acclimatising your bitch to other dogs . |
| 12 | Yeah well that 's erm , I mean , the only talking is between us at the moment it 's just , you know , . |
| 13 | You are only fifteen , and if your parents will not take responsibility for you , and you will not tell us what you are up at night , the only alternative is for you to go into care . |
| 14 | He is a ‘ sensitive young man ’ — a monster too , but the same monster is in you and me . |
| 15 | Er , the biggest thing is for us is is making payable for you . |
| 16 | The Green Show is for you . |
| 17 | The oth the other , the other option is for us to hold that . |
| 18 | If the new mall is to be covered , probably the best option is for it to be glazed in the manner of the arcades which cut through many nineteenth-century blocks . |
| 19 | Second , it discredits those — and again the Soviet editor is among them — who seek to explain Dostoevsky 's failure to reinstate ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ solely by the prevailing conditions of censorship . |
| 20 | The final decision is with me . |
| 21 | The third of the examples above suggests that the poem is being subtle ( whereas in fact it is the author — though again , this is arguably a matter of unknowable intention ) ; use of such personification involves a minor lapse in logic which you should be aware of , even if you decide that the final effect is worth it . |
| 22 | He must feel the whole world is against him . |
| 23 | Say I do n't know what the latest price is on them , but |
| 24 | But those symbols of fire and of wind are useful because when we say God is in us , when we say the Holy Spirit is in us , we ca n't actually grab anything and say you know we ca n't actually put it on a video and say , that little bit to the right of my heart is the Holy Spirit . |
| 25 | Multiple record buckets can not be handled in this way , as groups of records that randomize to the same bucket do not generally have anything else in common , so that the whole bucket has to be searched to see if the desired record is in it . |
| 26 | But then the disenfranchised men waged war and the ensuing chaos is with us still . |
| 27 | Not everyone in the pro-life movement is behind him , as ANDREA SMITH discovered . |
| 28 | When I said goodbye to Mollie Green she announced , ‘ The next lunch is on me , Doc . ’ |
| 29 | Once students have identified the discourse type they are to process or produce , the next step is for them to ‘ find their way around ’ inside it . |