Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't realize how fond she is of you . |
| 2 | Before resorting to this it is worth ensuring that the injection technique is satisfactory and the injection sites are healthy . |
| 3 | Yet before deciding on the implications of this it is worth examining the texts of the other jurists . |
| 4 | ‘ If you succeed ’ , he went on , ‘ you will have hundreds of miles of country and thousands of men under your orders , and for this it is worth bartering the outward show . ’ |
| 5 | On this it is worth quoting the comments of Lord Justice Lawton in a letter to The Times . |
| 6 | Though nothing came of this it is of interest because it anticipates the ‘ Cold War ’ methods by which Persia sought to infiltrate Greece in the second half of the century . |
| 7 | Much high praise has already come Mohicans ' way and it has done astounding US box-office business , but despite this it is on occasion a flawed film with a sometimes patchy pace and a structure that wobbles in the final 30 minutes . |
| 8 | Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) . |
| 9 | In this he is at one with most Christian Democrats and most Social Democrats in Europe today . |
| 10 | But on the other hand , in doing this he is in danger of passing over altogether the notion of social ‘ repression ’ . |
| 11 | Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to . |
| 12 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 13 | So we might say , Well our overall confidence is two but our relative confidence which is saying how different it is from everything else is only one . |
| 14 | Where waters are quite clear it is worth spending as much time as possible gazing from bridges , the banks or trees . |
| 15 | Again we see how much easier it is to be absolute in allegiance to a doctrine rather than to enquire into the beliefs upon which it is founded . |
| 16 | The fitter we become and the more energy we expend on a regular basis , the easier it is for us to maintain our new figure . |
| 17 | If parents and nurses would only realise how much easier it is for the child to bend to the social and moral laws in later life , when trained from infancy , how much sorrow might be saved . |
| 18 | Thus , the more mobile a dipolar group , the easier it is for it to follow the electric field up to higher frequencies , whereas the less mobile groups can only orient at lower frequencies . |
| 19 | ‘ The more information we can get from the public the easier it is for us to tackle criminals and make life in the town better for everyone , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender . |
| 21 | It 's quite nice how sensible he is in a way . |
| 22 | If the potential rewards are high it is worth pursuing , but knowing when to stop is not easy , and formalized methods of planning are not always easy to apply . |
| 23 | And it also tells me how high it is in the sky . |
| 24 | So they stand cheerfully by the carriage window revealing in loud voices the personal secrets of the wretched traveller , who winces as he realizes that he has to travel two hundred miles with a carriage full of strangers who know his family history , how prone he is to chills if he wears a damp vest , what he has to do when he arrives at his destination . |
| 25 | ‘ I would like to have seen how brave he is with players like Ron Yates and Norman Hunter about . |
| 26 | As in Chapter 2 it is worth stressing that for predictive valuation purposes P , i , t ; + 1 and D , i , t ; + 1 are uncertain quantities . |
| 27 | If the meme is a scientific idea , its spread will depend on how acceptable it is to the population of individual scientists ; a rough measure of its survival value could be obtained by counting the number of times it is referred to in successive years in scientific journals . |
| 28 | ‘ I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again . |
| 29 | Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason . |
| 30 | In one case the sheet folds in a way that is very similar to the formation of a neural tube ; in another it is very similar to the way the lens forms ; yet in another it is like the early formation of the gut in sea-urchin development . |