Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one I is n't that beautiful that ? |
| 2 | His is not just a lovingly maintained and highly polished old car . |
| 3 | This is similar to ‘ Futility ’ in the sense that Owen uses personal experience to get his message across but his is not so much about the pointlessness of war in general but is more focused on the individual soldier and the difference between death on the battlefield and death in your own town . |
| 4 | ‘ If we 're talking love-lives , yours is just as open to scrutiny as mine . |
| 5 | All these booklets are o on display just inside the general office , Right , now another way contact my is in Cardiff , I know yours is n't up to local or if no it is n't it |
| 6 | Just because yours is n't as good , her mind fills in the blank space . |
| 7 | That does n't mean that yours is n't as good . |
| 8 | Well yours is n't down for today . |
| 9 | Bank and building society managers are supposed to be approachable : if yours is not then change to another branch . |
| 10 | ‘ Yours is right here . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yours is far too untidy ! |
| 12 | ‘ This man of yours is very much a one-woman man . ’ |
| 13 | They are the tell-tale signs that the someone is not in . |
| 14 | As Box puts it , a person accused of stabbing someone is not likely just to be charged with ‘ carrying an offensive weapon ’ . |
| 15 | I understand ; I mean , you want to know that someone is n't just making the whole thing up when they talk about a man being that special to them . |
| 16 | Most people feel that the church ‘ knows about death ’ , and that someone is n't really treated with proper respect and dignity at the time of their funeral unless the church is present . |
| 17 | What about you know , if , if someone is relatively well educated , and they come from an urban , urban rural area , why do n't they get a job in the rural area using those qualifications ? |
| 18 | This serves as an introduction to Part II , and more particularly as a prelude to Chapter 6 , because it deals with the subject of fiction itself : something which is strictly not a matter of style , but which is presupposed by the study of style in fiction writing . |
| 19 | In 1988 women 's average gross hourly earnings represented 74.9 per cent of men 's earnings , which is slightly down on the peak of 75.5 per cent in 1977 but is an improvement on the 1985 figure of 73.9 per cent . |
| 20 | Which is slightly more than some people do with their money . |
| 21 | Yes , yes it is , it 's , it 's in Assembly Rooms which is slightly more gracious than the rather large er main building , and the mayor has very kindly er given the room , given us permission to use the room free of charge , and she will also be there at the performance as she is er , seems very interested in our work to date . |
| 22 | One of the excursions which is slightly out of the ordinary is to the Ice Caves at Dachstein , where you are guided through a twilight world of amazing ice formations . |
| 23 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 24 | On the consumption side , that means industrial usage ( which is hit by the recession ) and to an even greater extent , jewellery ( which is even harder hit by the recession . ) |
| 25 | Now , in an amazing snub to Lawrence , the 26-year-old has joined a club which is even further away from the capital and is set to make his debut in the Coca-Cola Cup tomorrow night — against Middlesbrough ! |
| 26 | The effusions of Vaneigem have an air of mystical revelation which is even more intense in recent publications . |
| 27 | Scientific explanations , scientists like M. Hammerton inform us , huffing and puffing away like the good little , non-pontificating rational beings they are , are completely objective phenomena , and value-free , which is even more to the point . |
| 28 | This is , I think , a difficult message for industrial enterprises to take , but it may be one which is even more necessary than in the past . |
| 29 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 30 | No it 's bronze which is even more difficult . |