Example sentences of "[pron] is [noun] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ With the rates it will be over £100,000 , which is £2,000 a week before you even open the door , ’ he said .
2 It costs £100 , which is quarter the price of the best hi fi turntable .
3 Employees ' NI contributions are paid on earnings up to and including what is known as the upper earnings limit , which is £390 a week from 6th April 1991 .
4 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour , which is Christ the Lord .
5 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord . ’
6 Erm , an another advantage of doing that is , it ensures that you do in other things , which is design a system .
7 He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written .
8 She is Hathor the Cow , Sekmet the Lioness , Lakshme , Demeter , Shiva and Kali .
9 The stolid sexton , James Whiting , had to find a bit more space in her grave to accommodate a certain Mary Humphries ; we know her — she is Thomas the Calvinist 's daughter Mary , née Titford , who had married Stephen Humphries of Devizes in 1752 .
10 Who is Attila the Hen ? ’
11 I would also nominate William Trevor , who is comparison a miniaturist with a Dostoevskian eye for the odd little incident , the world of the irrational and the way it impinges on ordinary life . ’
12 If there is conflict the Companies Act takes precedence .
13 If there is conflict the Companies Act takes precedence ’
14 At Glenegedale there is Driom a mhuillinn — Ridge of the mill and to the north of Port Ellen is Cnoc na Cloiche-muilinn Millstone Hill where there are a number of unfinished mill stones cut out of the rocks .
15 Tom Foster , secretary of the mental health sub committee , said ‘ There is evidence the increase in numbers is due to the closure of special children 's units .
16 Hazard As well as the obvious hazard to motorists approaching roadworks without warning lights , there is concern the lights could be used by terrorists to set up roadblocks .
17 there is Suzannah the whore in biblical legend and the prostitute who models as Suzannah , their stories parallel with that of Artemesia who because she was raped changes from virgin to whore all three were exploited and abused by men .
18 There is entertainment every night .
19 In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food .
20 Tayvullin ( Tigh a Mhuilinn ) at Ardnave is a mill house and also , near Gruinart farm , there is Gleann a Mhuillinn the Glen of the mill .
21 But you know Mr I I do n't believe in these average earnings , average business , Oh yes there is correctness the accountants will vouch for it you see ?
22 There is danger every day .
23 However , what evidence there is highlights a number of ways in which — relative to older whites — black and Asian elders are disadvantaged ( in income , housing , health and access to services ) , and are part of a minority group which clearly suffers racial discrimination .
24 And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason .
25 But courts themselves were places of education ; ‘ With the king of England it is school every day ’ , as Peter of Blois remarked .
26 It is Quantas a lot yes .
27 In Macbeth too there is a healing king , but offstage — it is Edward the Confessor , the last legitimate Anglo-Saxon king , who sends Siward Earl of Northumbria to assist the rebels .
28 These valuations are way over the top and it is time a lot of these councillors where brought down to earth .
29 READING about how Princess Anne bossed her new husband around on their wedding day made me wonder whether it is time the rules of royal succession were changed .
30 Some European governments have begun to mutter that it is time the Croats had a taste of sanctions .
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