Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the argument that she sacrificed her art for his is as stupid as the argument about who influenced whom . |
| 2 | Miss LaMotte spoke more forcefully than I would have expected : she is surprisingly handsome when animated . |
| 3 | She is probably older than you . |
| 4 | Writing in Inspire , Elizabeth Innes rightly says that the house-to-house collection is the least popular task of the Week , but she is also right when she tells how a word of thanks from a housebound person , grateful for the opportunity to give , compensates for previous rebuffs . |
| 5 | yes , she is as tall as you , she 's five seven |
| 6 | Brittain said : ‘ User Friendly showed she is as good as we always thought she was . |
| 7 | Let's hope she is as good as she looks . |
| 8 | She is as gentle as a lamb and while most people are cautious when meeting her , they soon think she 's wonderful . |
| 9 | Nowadays however she is as forgotten as James Gore- Dillon , the Anglo-Irish playwright contemporary of W.B. Yeats , whose lone play , ‘ In The Shadow Of The Gunman 's Glen ’ , was rehearsed only once by the West Of Ireland Players in a shed in Swinford in 1910 . |
| 10 | She is as old as he is , and has had lovers and sadnesses , and difficulties of her own making . |
| 11 | She is as bigoted as they come , but the laughter is deafening . |
| 12 | ‘ She is as fat as he is , and wo n't walk either ; so we have to do it . |
| 13 | She is as careful as a chemist with her reproaches . |
| 14 | So she is as interested as I am in our surroundings : china cabinets full of dishes and ornaments inherited from the households of several unknown and long-dead cousins , armchairs with bloated cushions , a piano that no one has played in forty years . |
| 15 | She is as common as what . |
| 16 | ‘ She is so tired when her work is finished that she just sits still and rests . |
| 17 | Also she is more vulnerable than she was . |
| 18 | Now that I am closer to Tamsin I can see that she is more tired than I had thought . |
| 19 | A great many assessment systems are competitive in that the extrinsic rewards they offer are in short supply and each student who wants them is asked to demonstrate that he or she is more deserving than others , or others are less deserving . |
| 20 | I would say that she is more dangerous than Monica . |
| 21 | Now she is more independent than I would ever have believed possible . |
| 22 | For all her industrious androgyny she is more beautiful than ever . |
| 23 | So the rabbi ran after the man and said : ‘ I have just found out that the jewel I gave you is more precious than I thought — do n't sell it for too little . ’ |
| 24 | Often , to have a solid example in front of you is less daunting than a drawing . |
| 25 | This means that if an individual is embedded in such a network , s/he is more liable than one whose network is relatively looseknit to be vulnerable to pressure exerted by everyday social contacts . |
| 26 | Columbus in this bitter dream makes Isabella see the truth at last , makes her accept that her need for him is as great as his for her . |
| 27 | Her fantasy about the 80-year-old Sir Timothy Shelley , whose death would secure her a legacy , reversing through the ageing process back to sprightly youth while everyone else cracks up around him is as funny as Byron and more good-humoured . |
| 28 | Talking to her is less embarrassing than talking to anyone else . |
| 29 | Marcos loyalists now poke fun at the Aquino administration 's boast that it has built a new stability , arguing it is pretty fragile if it wo n't allow a dead man home for burial . |
| 30 | It is pretty disgraceful if I can not put to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East the points which have been the centre of debate in this country for the past 10 days , but I shall do so . |