Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | I , it , it was interesting actually because I mean Nor Northallerton is the e is the office at risk in a sense because when they get a fourth of anything , theirs is relatively more and ours is relatively less . |
| 14 | Blagdon do claim that the foam can operate as an effective filter , and certainly theirs is far more substantial than most of the equivalent models . |
| 15 | But since she is rather ostentatiously concealing it with her arm as she talks I imagine that it is in fact not homework at all , but a contribution to her mother 's Festschrift . |
| 16 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 17 | ‘ And I do n't know where she is right now . |
| 18 | ‘ Liberalism alone is the great Lady Surgeon of a nation 's maladies , and while she is temporarily abed with a broken limb , the nation is the sufferer ’ ( Ramsey in the Gownsman , 6 December 1924 ) . |
| 19 | A very old friend of the family wrote to me when each of my parents died , and from her I had learnt that Sarah had decided to have no more children after Emma , and that Emma had gone to medical school so she is presumably now a doctor somewhere . |
| 20 | If the individual can always predict what will happen after the first drink then he or she is probably not alcoholic and may have no need of a 12 Step recovery programme and therefore can not be said to relapse if occasionally he or she gets drunk . |
| 21 | Her modesty in the face of such popularity is endearing , especially as it is for her self-confidence in front of canvas and tv camera for which she is probably best known ! |
| 22 | And I am much too disappointed to curse her , to realise that she is probably in for a cut herself . |
| 23 | She comes to believe , however , that she is probably better off without him : |
| 24 | She is probably rightly placed in fig. 124 , adjusting the sandal of one of the women , an action represented in very much this way on later vases and tombstones . |
| 25 | She feels she is somewhere else , intensely , simply because |
| 26 | The chapter takes as its focus the work of Mary Whitehouse and the organisation with which she is most closely associated , the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association ( NVALA ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 28 | ( In Bengal , for instance , she is most popularly known as Manasa . ) |
| 29 | She is here again because I , with a claim of my own to advance , and having regard to yet another claim , with strict fairness , brought her back to Shrewsbury , from which she began her controversial odyssey , so that she herself might choose where she wished to rest . |
| 30 | Er , she is here somewhere . |