Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When she is well enough I 'll tell her about your visit . ’ |
| 2 | He said Daphne even though she is married now I am willing to forget the bad talks that were going around about him being foolish and wanting her back . |
| 3 | ‘ The day she is free then I will leave the Zoo and never return , whatever hardship it may involve . |
| 4 | The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay . |
| 5 | Lin will première the work in San Diego , California , which has a large Chinese population , and if it is successful there he hopes to find a way to perform it in Taiwan . |
| 6 | It is uncertain exactly what contributions Brother Oudart made to the development of the Champagne method but we know that he also used corks from Spain and it has been suggested that he was the first to use a liqueur de tirage . |
| 7 | It is little enough I have to offer you — apart from my love , that is . ’ |
| 8 | The authors also seem uncertain about the rationale for selecting acupuncture points ; they say that they used ‘ four common acupuncture points , ’ but it is unclear exactly which points these were . |
| 9 | It is unclear why he so suddenly dropped the idea that he first pushed forward with some vigour . |
| 10 | Although it is unclear precisely what the section actually means , at least on one view it does permit the courts to refuse to admit police evidence which has been obtained illegally . |
| 11 | It is curious how he manages to make John Major sound about as animated and self-willed as a sack of potatoes.Ask him whether the PM takes his advice , and you get a similar impression . |
| 12 | Although Kandinsky proclaimed the vital importance of the inner and personal inspiration it is extraordinary how he seized upon and exploited the styles of Matisse , Malévich , Klee , Arp and the Surrealists . |
| 13 | It is strange how we struggle to hold back tears as if our very lives depended upon it ; yet there is nothing like tears — that is , genuine tears , genuinely struggled against — to bring people down to earth ; for now , and at once , Aunt Louise became real : a motherly , rational , human being . |
| 14 | What is a voidable title and how it differs from a void title can best be shown by an example : A owns some goods which he sells to B who in turn sells them to C. If the first contract ( i.e. Between A and B ) is valid then title passes from A to B. If it is void for any reason then it is no contract at all and no ownership passes to B. If it is voidable then it is initially valid but can be avoided ( set aside ) later . |
| 15 | Er a and therefore , I would of thought that was a everyone but I 'm just wondering why it is that now what of Wales ? |
| 16 | England team manager , Keith Fletcher , said : ‘ I 'm delighted for him and it is noticeable how his confidence has grown in recent weeks . |
| 17 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 18 | It is this indeed which prompted the first ‘ new realisms ’ in criminology. : the right-wing realism of James Q. Wilson and his associates in the United States ( Wilson , 1975 ) ; and the ‘ administrative realism ’ attributed by Jock Young to our own Home Office Research Unit ( Young , 1986 ) . |
| 19 | If it is thin enough you will be able to trace the outlines of a plot originally drawn on graph paper . |
| 20 | If and when they work on the tacit assumption or make such a blatant assertion as that , that there is no longer any poverty , because it is not true and unless and until it is true neither they nor we have got any right to be content . |
| 21 | This is an alarmingly grown-up piece of acting from such a small boy and it is obvious why he is paid so much money to do it . |
| 22 | We need look no further than 3 — it is obvious enough what it ‘ should be ’ . |
| 23 | His success in this depends directly on the success of his immaterialism , for it is obvious how it continually points the way towards God . |
| 24 | Well if we want this kitchen , well a lot of it is tiled anyway you know part ways up , erm I said to him whatever it costs , it 'll be done |
| 25 | yeah it is local so I 'll still be coming to the group , I mean it 's erm , going , I mean erm just bear that in mind I might need sort of some help with coordinating cards and things , and erm , particularly if we do opt into the campaign , er it might be advisable for somebody else to do it , or at least sort of give me assistance . |
| 26 | It is excellent however you use it , but rather than fiddling with small mince pies , my great aunts from Norfolk Island made huge double-crusted pies , the pineapple layered between home-made mince meat , rich with rum and spices . |
| 27 | It is likely therefore whatever option is selected an extra £5000 per annum may be required . |
| 28 | ‘ It is incredible how she has fitted in , ’ Mike says . |
| 29 | Although concerned to embed his ideas in practices Bourdieu is not himself especially concerned with defining the role of the artefact , but it is clear how his work contributes to such a task . |
| 30 | It is clear enough what was happening : a girl was paid more than a boy on entering the trade and continued to earn more until both were approaching 20 years old , when the male rate drew ahead and suddenly leapfrogged to become double that of the female rate . |