Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [verb] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose she 's broke as well , is she ? |
| 2 | Eliza is portrayed as the most emotionally-balanced member of her family : she is loving as well as reasonable ( hence the original title of the book — ‘ Love and Reason ’ ) . |
| 3 | But it would be regarded as less serious than 20 to 30 years ago , and less so in the theatrical and film worlds where it 's regarded as almost normal . ’ |
| 4 | But it 's regarded as quite a find . |
| 5 | ‘ There is n't even guaranteed support from other women because it 's seen as so shameful . |
| 6 | It is a political theory but it 's also an attempt to act on that political theory so it 's practise as well . |
| 7 | It is seen as fundamentally important to ensuring good corporate governance . |
| 8 | Rather , it treats them as ‘ given ’ , in the sense that it is seen as neither plausible nor fruitful to attempt a causal explanation of them . |
| 9 | It is seen as very helpful in some areas but entirely unsuitable in others . |
| 10 | If there is surprise among outsiders at his rapid rise , within the bank it is seen as totally predictable . |
| 11 | In the enterprise of seeking to understand consciousness as something more manageable and decently scientific than what it calls ghostly stuff , it is understood as yet less than ghostly stuff . |
| 12 | These groups represent a minority opinion , she suggests , and it is up to the NVALA and groups like it to defend and reassert ‘ traditional ’ values before humanism takes a grip of society generally , rather than just at the BBC where it is viewed as already having a stranglehold . |
| 13 | The Conservatives would continue to commercialise and privatise the NHS until it is run as just another business . |
| 14 | The style has tremendous rhetorical power in that the analysis reveals the obverse of the obvious and yet it is treated as still obvious . |
| 15 | The effects of the acquisition are not given since it is treated as always having been a member of the group . |
| 16 | But they will be quick to point out to ministers that ‘ helping the poorest ’ can often lead to poverty and unemployment traps , as any state benefit aimed just at low-income households will discourage them from earning more or getting a job if it is withdrawn as soon as they do so . |
| 17 | Rather it is presented as simply a mirror image of the subjectivist principle of mens rea . |
| 18 | It is presented as virtually the defining case for the argument that there is a crucial distinction between literate and non-literate societies and that this difference relates to differences in cognitive processes and the development of ‘ logic ’ . |
| 19 | Most people feel an obligation to keep in contact with their siblings , but beyond that it is regarded as quite proper for relationships to vary in the level of intimacy and the type of support offered ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 ; Allan , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |
| 21 | At one extreme , it is regarded as self-evidently nihilistic , a dissolution of reality into textuality . |
| 22 | Another revealing recurrence in these plays is the way that male sexual jealousy , even as it is represented as obsessively heterosexual in its demands , produces eroticized images of the rival male which are inseparable from the denigration of the woman : |
| 23 | A social institution is ‘ legitimate ’ if it is perceived as morally justified ; the problem with the penal system is that this perception is lacking and many people inside and outside the system believe that it is morally indefensible , or at least defective . |
| 24 | Obvious indicators are the books schools or parents buy for children and the priority in which they buy them , the volume of work in exercise books and the care with which it is corrected as well as the actual , as distinct from the official , allocation of teaching time . |
| 25 | Mr Kemp said : ‘ Given the scale and complexity of the closure programme , I think it is going as well for residents and staff as it could be at this stage . ’ |
| 26 | In ‘ Shake , Rattle and Roll ’ , even if it is interpreted as totally devoid of the non-formulaic ( far-fetched , once one listens carefully to performance nuances ) , the collectivizing repetitions can take on a positive cultural significance , in the context of use by young working-class dancers . |
| 27 | It is woven as only the American artificial-snow industry knows how . |
| 28 | The acquisition of evidence and the presentation of evidence are linked , of course , in that it may be necessary to decide what should be presented before it is acquired although more usually it is a matter of presenting what can be acquired . |
| 29 | Unlike the others , however , he is presented as wholly admirable : ‘ much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among ; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master 's of all healing was … |
| 30 | If he is , attack while he is rising because then he will have little opportunity to launch a powerful counter-attack . |