Example sentences of "is a [adj] [noun] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is a fantastic honour and I am absolutely thrilled , ’ said Soames , moments after his promotion was announced . |
| 2 | ‘ He is a fantastic father and he 's very good company , very pleasant and very generous with his time — completely different to how people see him . ’ |
| 3 | The village is a fantastic institution and they make people happier . ’ |
| 4 | I think Klute is a superb film and I think he ( his father ) set an acting style in that film that has been mimicked a great deal since . |
| 5 | YOUNG Jason Ennis is a superb illustrator and one who has a considerable number of strings to his artistic bow . |
| 6 | ‘ But the fact is , he is a superb player and he should be playing for Arsenal . ’ |
| 7 | Clearly , this is a delicate subject and one which you and your partner should discuss at length , as it could mean that the survivor has to sell the property in order to fulfil the bequest . |
| 8 | It is a delicate situation and we really have to wait and see . |
| 9 | Water is a limited resource and its effective management involves the NRA in a variety of activities . |
| 10 | is a vast neighbourhood and it 's got no outlet , where everything goes up and everything has to come back out again and all that goes along a small country road . |
| 11 | Certainly Dowty Electrics is a profitable company and I believe , our members have a reasonably secure future . |
| 12 | ‘ This is a young side and I 've known them for four years and watched them mature and get stronger . |
| 13 | This is a political idea and it is one which we have seen expressed in a contemporary form in Oakeshott 's idea of respublica . |
| 14 | Seen in this light , management is a political activity and it is an emotional activity too because organisations are about people . |
| 15 | In other words it is a selfish conception and it is based on the individual 's own experience . |
| 16 | Friendship as well as marriage is a two-way affair and it is only when both parties have the opportunity to share problems , experiences and ideas and to give as well as take , that the relationship is a success . |
| 17 | Employment is a two-way trade and it is as well to remember that the conditions that we in the House think can be imposed on employers may backfire on the very people whom they are supposed to help . |
| 18 | Thus , we can add the joint income of husband and wife to obtain a total for that unit , whatever we choose to call it , whereas we can not sensibly add their separate statuses to achieve a joint status for both of them unless we know a great deal more about how status is a distributive phenomenon and what its properties are . |
| 19 | A few weeks of residential treatment are merely a scratch on the surface of the disease — but it is a deep scratch and it may help many more sufferers into recovery than might otherwise be successful through depending upon the AnonymouS Fellowships alone . |
| 20 | But then of course France is a , is a , is a separate country and we ca n't actually tell the French what to do . |
| 21 | The Labour Party 's ‘ Irish unity ’ excuse is a logical nonsense and it is usually tagged on as an afterthought to the comradely talk about the SDLP . |
| 22 | To me it is a worthwhile occupation and one which I am convinced will stand me in good stead for the rest of my life . ’ |
| 23 | The disadvantage is that it is a time-consuming process and you will have a lot more teething problems when first running the system . |
| 24 | This is very disheartening and very disappointing because this is a major problem and it makes so much difference to the lives of these children . |
| 25 | So this is a major complication and I think this shows why Freud had to introduce this second model of the mind , because in his first model of the mind it was very simple and repression was the force that distinguished conscious from unconscious . |
| 26 | ‘ But this is a major project and it is hoped that most of the 12,000 people it puts in work will be in Britain . ’ |
| 27 | There is a major difference and it 's easy to see he was not at all well . |
| 28 | This is a bogus budget and we will happily throw it out with a fairly strong vote . |
| 29 | A de-clawed cat is a maimed cat and anyone considering having the operation done to their pet should think again . |
| 30 | The interesting point is that , that I feel is , that this is , this , this , this all has a very heavy bearing on the regulatory system , because I think that really we 're now being financial services is a global village and you know whether somebody picks up a phone and di I think in fact did n't you have somebody gave evidence here and said that they could not investigate one of Maxwell 's transactions , because it had gone through the New York office . |