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

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1 ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it .
2 But you 're stuck with it , and I 'm stuck with it and there 's nothing either of us can do about it .
3 There 's nothing out of the ordinary .
4 erm For example if erm two people are walking down the street and there 's a certain amount of jostling , then the victim , if he is a victim , may well consider that it 's not violent , or that it 's nothing out of the ordinary , or that it 's something which is acceptable , and then not take the matter any farther .
5 Only a woman can understand what 's wrong , and there 's nothing any of you could do .
6 There is nothing else of interest in here .
7 A mop and pail are propped against the wall , but there is nothing else of interest or value here .
8 Using × 20 I have suspected it — the integrated magnitude is given as between 7 and 8 — but not with certainty , and there is nothing else of any real interest in Lacerta .
9 It might be that there really is nothing else of importance , or it might be that I just do n't want to make the whole of me available .
10 Otherwise there is nothing here of immediate interest .
11 There is nothing here of interest to the binocular observer .
12 But it will hurt , and each time it happens , it will feel like a shock , and a sad renewal of the realisation that a loved companion is beginning to drift away from her , and that there is nothing either of them can do about it .
13 " There is nothing there of any great value-some good furniture and old silver , of course — but nothing of fantastic worth . "
14 This kind of thing is nothing out of the ordinary .
15 But the world of 1806 was to Captain Marryat what the world of 1935 is to us , at this moment , a middling sort of place , where there is nothing out of the way in a sailor with a pigtail or in a bumboat woman volleying hoarse English .
16 You announce that you want Mr Middleditch and when they say there 's nobody there of that name , you ask if you can ‘ ring the office ’ to find out what 's going on .
17 There seems no reason , and the very business of raising such questions is itself part of a widespread collusive conjuring of absences and of whole worlds of what might have been .
18 As the quote from Guttierrez shows , the struggle to build a just society is itself part of the process of salvation .
19 For consciousness is itself part of that fabric , and , or so I shall argue in Part Two , the value features which are found there are real properties of certain experiences ( and indeed of the physical and social environment in our personal versions of it ) which have an intrinsic prescriptivity .
20 But to implement these policies requires winning political power , and therefore the debate about the future of the underclass is itself part of the debate about the future of left politics in Britain .
21 The aesthetic form of presentation is itself part of the reinterpretation .
22 It is becoming increasingly clear that this whole process , defined in one recent study as ‘ a set of procedures for uniting those who control the resources necessary for certain tasks ( the members of a municipal council or the shareholders in a company for example ) with those who use the goods or services produced from these resources ( pupils , patients , tenants , customers , etc. ) 'i is itself part of policy making .
23 His paper is , therefore , partisan — it does not pretend to be other and it is itself part of the discourse in support of psychodynamic theory .
24 However , the seriousness of the charge is itself part of the circumstances that the court should taken into account in deciding if the standard of proof has been met .
25 ‘ Well , that 's you out of it . ’
26 When the plan was mooted , Ms Collins is said to have retorted , ‘ Is she out of her mind ?
27 Terrible is she out of hospital now and that ?
28 The pursuit of happiness through developing rewarding emotional ties with other people is something most of us spend a good deal of our lives attempting .
29 The Bristol-born player is one ahead of Switzerland 's Paolo Quirici and two clear of six players — Sam Torrance , Ian Spencer , John Bickerton , Russell Claydon , Italy 's Costantino Rocca and Domingo Hospital , of Spain .
30 I mean there is one here of course .
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