Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I is there a lot there ?
2 Funk but not funk , jazz but not jazz — his is strictly no sell-out either way .
3 Furthermore , the fact that Haines must report to the Jockey Club Stewards and has no authority to act unilaterally has inevitably led to suggestions that his is merely a token appointment .
4 CalMac 's managing director , Colin Paterson , points out that his is possibly the only nationalised industry whose grant has gone down in real terms .
5 His is almost the only unsilenced opposition voice .
6 Mr Gamage declined the offer , and given his proximity to the matter , his is perhaps the most adequately balanced appraisal of ‘ Those Pistol Cases ’ that can be reached .
7 ‘ You did hit him in the stomach — and that briefcase of yours is quite a solid design , after all .
8 Yours is only a sleeping life . ’
9 Being committed to pray for someone is perhaps the greatest commitment we could make and as such we as a church need to be faithful in this , that is why it would be good to get prayer support groups together .
10 Today , EDS has only one office in Milan , which combined the activities of SD-Scicon/GFI Informatique and of McDonnell Douglas Information Systems , and one in Rome , which is strictly a commercial office for GM Italia .
11 It has meant that she has only had two training sessions in the last month , which is scarcely the preparation necessary to face her hardest opponent in the world .
12 If you have any original Lloyd Loom which is slightly the worse for wear , contact Graham Mancha on 029 6615121 .
13 It is not necessary to examine each of these cases here , but sufficient to note that in each there is a disposition which is plainly a legacy sub modo yet which is subsequently described by the jurist as a trust .
14 In the city centre the only German buildings still standing are the ruin of the Gothic cathedral and the former stock exchange , which is nowadays the Palace of Culture for Sailors .
15 Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) .
16 That can , of course , literally be satisfied by the Unit General Manager ( UGM ) preparing a piece of paper which is simply a statement of intent .
17 Sexual relations have been called ‘ a non-competitive contact body sport ’ , which is simply a light-hearted way of emphasising the fact that competition is not involved .
18 In hotel and catering accounts , the sales day book is replaced by the visitors ' tabular ledger , which is simply a form of analysed or columnar book-keeping .
19 Where employees have a rooted substantive knowledge of what they are doing , rather than one which is simply a certified mastery of some abstract occupational or analytical techniques , then the institutional conditions appear to be most appropriate for such an achievement .
20 I can certainly see no future prosperity while there is intervention and absurd support for beef under the special beef premium scheme , which is simply a further incentive to produce what the market does not want , either in quantity or quality .
21 However , the Prime Minister 's visit has caused a two-week gap between Cabinet meetings which is simply a logistical difficulty .
22 My children love to play this game which is simply the water variant of ‘ What 's the Time Mr Wolf ’ .
23 Among his own people , Jesus would have been called ‘ Yeshua ’ , which is simply the familiar biblical ‘ Joshua ’ .
24 The right hand side equates this with the effect of an operator , the Hamiltonian , which is simply the observable corresponding to the energy of the system under consideration .
25 In contrast , the mutant polymerases and CRP produce a pattern which is simply the sum of the individual CRP and polymerase footprints .
26 Another method of determining the static position error involves the concept of " stiffness " , which is simply the slope of the static torque/rotor position characteristic at the equilibrium position .
27 It is convenient to introduce the idea of " switching angle " , which is simply the change in detected rotor position relative to the low-speed detected position .
28 The angular attenuation of scattering is measured by the particle scattering factor which is simply the ratio of the scattering intensity to the intensity in the absence of interference , measured at the same angle θ .
29 Evaluation of the temperature dependence of the size of such a region leads to an expression for the co-operative transition probability , , which is simply the reciprocal of the relaxation time .
30 In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace .
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