Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is totally untaught , will not listen and makes so many basic errors in her set-up alone that consistency is obviously impossible . |
| 2 | She spoke quite easily about her feelings and she is totally man crazy . |
| 3 | Mm slightly more easier for you is just multiply it by one of those tens so you 've got sixty four by ten to the four . |
| 4 | But it is rather charm less I think , and there is at least one far more enticing place nearby if you plan to stop in this valley . |
| 5 | It is however landscape which holds the greatest interest for the Royal artist and Deeside , the Yorkshire Dales , and Norfolk are among the areas where he has roamed with sketch-pad and paints . |
| 6 | It is optimistically forecast that women will become freer from household burdens as a result of these technological innovations . |
| 7 | It is simply demand and supply pressures which determine the appropriate exchange rate for each currency . |
| 8 | However , the prison and the system of which it is part tend to resist internal reform initiatives . |
| 9 | As with all drugs , even aspirin , it is generally abuse , not use , that kills . |
| 10 | It is generally price advantageous to specify powders although in use they may be more difficult to control and dose . |
| 11 | It is either pride or obstinacy , but she is determined to pay her way and I 'm not allowed to help her out . |
| 12 | In Green terms , it is neither use nor ornament . |
| 13 | it is neither comfort nor vicissitude . ’ |
| 14 | It is little surprise that legend and lore should have built up around it . |
| 15 | Given the prevalence of graphical presentation , it is surely time that the ASB addressed this issue . |
| 16 | And it is surely time that the relatively under-resourced areas of England had a fairer allocation of resources to help fight their manifestly worse health and survival chances . |
| 17 | It is surely time that the old style of letter , ‘ Your patient is doing well and should continue on the same treatment , ’ was consigned to the history books . |
| 18 | It is surely time that students , as adults in part responsible for their own higher education , were formally accorded the rights and academic respect they deserve , and the social relations between teacher and taught were made more equal . |
| 19 | It is surely time that this process was reversed : cheap capital should be allowed to lead to higher productivity , which in its turn should push a liberated sterling upwards . |
| 20 | It is no use us trying to clobber the economy with high taxation any more than it 's any use Lawson clobbering the economy with high interest rates … |
| 21 | The notion of pastiche is now a guiding thread in critical discourse , to the extent that Palandri 's novel can be put forward as ‘ a disturbing attempt to write a kitsch novel ’ ( De Michelis 1986a ) , and the argument be made — — referring to Piersanti 's Charles — that no novelist born in the 1950s can return to ‘ traditional narrative ’ without being aware that he/she is ‘ holding an old toy which might look fine in an antique shop , or might be an ornament or a collector 's item , but is no good for playing with any more ’ ; if they do use it ( but why should they if it is no use any more ? ) , it is with a mixture of pleasure and melancholy , ‘ like someone repeating a game which once gave pleasure for years and years and now gives none , only the memory of the joy it once gave ’ ( De Michelis 1986b ) . |
| 22 | If I see God 's power clearly but not his wisdom , then it is no use my finding out about his justice or faithfulness . |
| 23 | If he loses all his money it is no use his having saved tax . |
| 24 | … If not , it is no use his coming . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It is no use me spitting out my dummy , ’ he said , borrowing a a popular Australian phrase . |
| 26 | It is no use any hon. Member saying that the length of miners ' hours has nothing to do with safety . |
| 27 | It is no use the Home Secretary saying that the high crime rate is due to other factors . |
| 28 | It is no use the hon. Member for Leeds , Central looking to either side of him ; he is the guilty man . |
| 29 | Clearly that goes through many doors throughout the er the constituency , and it is widely read , people look forward to it . |
| 30 | It is probably time that this was reconsidered ; in secondary schools it has led to absurdities like the daily dose , the thirty-five minute lesson , and the conviction that , though all subjects are theoretically equal ( hence the standard four period per week allocation ) some ( English and maths ) are more equal than others , and need a longer allocation . |