Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] is [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 2 | You do not know what is in it . |
| 3 | Colin Patterson on the other hand writes what is for me the most scholarly paper in the volume , pointing out that , from the transformed cladist point of view , the much discussed and abused term ‘ homology ’ actually refers to those characters that define natural groups of organisms and need have no evolutionary connotations . |
| 4 | " If living there is worth it to you . " |
| 5 | If she withholds beyond their as yet limited capacity for tolerance , their continuing rage seeks only to destroy what is in her . |
| 6 | It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators . |
| 7 | For instance , a pupil with hemianopia or a diminished visual field may have to sit at an angle rather than square to the blackboard in order to use remaining vision usefully to discriminate what is on it . |
| 8 | Charming at first sight is this picture of the warm-blooded sailor who sets out to win a girl because he has been told he is beneath her . |
| 9 | You never know who is behind you in the queue . |
| 10 | Lifts are like shared entrances , you never know who is in them and you run the risk of being trapped in there with an attacker . |
| 11 | that 's hard job to find out what to do it is for me any rate |
| 12 | I know it is with me , er , with Dad 's Army , so er , if they 're getting huge ratings with those repeats , well , they 're obviously gon na put them on are n't they ? |
| 13 | use your mirrors often , that you know what is behind you and that each sign is what you said |
| 14 | But we believe we know what at this moment the country wants , and we believe it is for us in our strength to do what no other party can do at this moment and to say that we at any rate stand for peace … |
| 15 | But me jus study an tek what is fe me |
| 16 | ‘ As it is , I 've no way of knowing who is behind it all , so there is n't much point fretting over it , is there ? |
| 17 | As John of Climacus said : ‘ The man who has come to know himself is never fooled into reaching what is beyond him . |
| 18 | I do n't think it is for me . |
| 19 | She 's been married , got two kids — how on earth she gave birth to those two children , is beyond me , how on earth she made it is beyond me . |
| 20 | ‘ Just when a player thinks he is past him , Pally will stick out a long leg and nick the ball off him . |
| 21 | I think it is for you purely to decide , that this application does not affect the house . |
| 22 | We do have an asset in , and I think it is worth us fighting to preserve that hospital , and not to watch it go into decline . |
| 23 | Erm my , I have n't had the time to really absorb what is in them and obviously the board would feel the same . |
| 24 | She is also hugely inquisitive , and unless they have planned their route carefully , and can keep safely abreast of her , Diana is quite likely to open interesting-looking doors to see what is behind them . |
| 25 | You 'll need plenty of courage to face up to the fact that trouble is about to strike and then to deter whoever is behind it . |
| 26 | … she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit ( Matt . |