Example sentences of "[pron] is [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | each capital letter starts a new element and that would mean one C A one O and two Hs but what I is one C A and two O Hs which is two |
| 2 | As yours is low mileage , the cam followers will be OK to use again . |
| 3 | This twin of yours is pure fiction , but I do think you know who Garry 's new love is . |
| 4 | Er , so yours is better Mrs . |
| 5 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If that gelding of yours is any good , I 'll put my hand in my pocket for him for Dolly . |
| 7 | It is eighty five pence a day , yours is ninety pence so you 'd better be even wiser with your choice . |
| 8 | This boy of yours is twenty-five years old , old enough to father children and break hearts . |
| 9 | In general , whether someone is shifting viewpoints or not , the test of whether he is aware of the look and feel of something , not merely of the facts about it , is whether he takes it into account in choices of ends as well as of means . |
| 10 | But if the idea of some indefinable menace frees your imagination , then there is nothing to stop you producing a suspense novel every bit as twanging with tension as a story in which someone is left hanging by one finger over a depthless gorge . |
| 11 | In most cases it is because someone is withholding information to increase their power . |
| 12 | Candice Dungey 's attacker has not been traced , but Det Insp John Kelly , head of Middlesbrough CID , is convinced that someone is withholding information about what he called ‘ a very vicious attack ’ . |
| 13 | Which is actual expenditure divided by actual allowance . |
| 14 | I am the author of War in the Nursery ( Virago , 1983 ) , have contributed to several books and journals , and have published collections of poetry , the most recent of which is Dry Air ( Virago , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | Hulse and Taylor found that the period changed by as much as 80 µs with a 7.75 h cycle , which is uncharacteristic behaviour for a pulsar . |
| 16 | Her justification was that we were personal friends , which is absolute bullshit . |
| 17 | They wheel you over and they put you in the bath and they start stripping off your bandages which is absolute agony . |
| 18 | But as I say , and then er , the other one which I can tell you was , which is absolute disaster ! |
| 19 | Several of the companies were newly founded last month , the most ambitious of which is Advanced Computer Technology Ltd or ACTec , which is charged with producing both an Asynchronous Transfer Mode switch , and separately , a wireless local network system . |
| 20 | At the time of invoicing , by drawing a bill on his overseas buyer which is payable say ‘ 90 days from sight ’ an exporter will have an acknowledgement of the debt by obtaining his buyer 's acceptance of the bill . |
| 21 | The first is the Christian position which is 180 degrees out of phase with the world . |
| 22 | This is fastened to a top and bottom line which is 100 yards long . |
| 23 | The course , which crosses a narrow railway bridge and a major road , climbs from 160 feet above sea level to 368 feet , drops back to 303 feet , then climbs again to the finish which is 450 feet above sea level . |
| 24 | The , the , the , the heading on , on your thing which is financial considerations , I do n't have my copy but never mind , I do n't need it . |
| 25 | BECAUSE ‘ Mad , Scared , Dumb And Gorgeous ’ debut from a new duo , one half of which is former Furniture vocalist Jim Irvin |
| 26 | There is a charge for the use of the lake ( which is private property ) and car parking . |
| 27 | KODAK is soon to start selling 35 mm colour film which is 10 times faster than Kodacolor II , and can thus take pictures with one-tenth the light . |
| 28 | Will he confirm that last year the Scottish Office spent £2.6 million on advertising alone , which is 10 times the figure for 1979 ? |
| 29 | Beyond all the rarefied discussion of these fundamental forces , beyond the political point scoring and the political footballs , many of which have been kicked around this evening , there remains the overwhelming problem of coping humanely and fairly with the constant flow of individual human beings — now 50,000 a year , which is 10 times more than three years ago . |
| 30 | I am not sure that Health Boards will wish to initiate a strategy which is 10 years out of date . |