Example sentences of "[is] the [noun] [pron] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't forget the same with , with take-aways as well , if the signs are the same you get a plus or you get an add , erm so that 's , I mean I can see this is the bit you 're not too happy with , but we 'll just see if it works . |
| 2 | ‘ In the west it is the prices which are hard to accept and in the east people are unhappy about unemployment . |
| 3 | Giles Estwick has got an airline to sponsor one of those international exchange schemes , and Flo is the jock we 're sending to this station in Hawaii for three weeks . |
| 4 | Consider the sentences in ( 10 ) with their sequences of verbs followed by adverbs or adverb phrases : ( 10 ) Farjeon clumsily undressed the refugees gazed hungrily into the window the ship was drifting almost imperceptibly to leeward In the last of these three cases nobody would understand the ship itself to be " almost imperceptible " ; in the second sentence , on the other hand , it is the refugees who are hungry ; gazes , whatever they may imply to a sensitive observer , do not experience hunger . |
| 5 | Agreeing with Sahlins that ‘ Culture is not ordered by the primitive emotions of the hypothalamus ; it is the emotions which are organized by culture ’ ( 1977 : 13 ) , we have presented some different social orders where fighting , competition , and other violent behaviour are not part of the order , or part of the people 's ideas of what a human being is . |
| 6 | What is the price you are paying ? |
| 7 | It is the price you are expected to pay for a varied and entertaining job with an above average wage . |
| 8 | So what is the voltage we are going to measure ? |
| 9 | Identification is part of our survival kit ; it is the way we are . |
| 10 | It is the way we are made . |
| 11 | We have the Association for the Disabled for the blind , we have Age Concern but there is n't a for the mentally or for mental health or for whatever it might be called , and these groups are very useful in providing a focal point for liaison between statutory organizations , including the health service , and the users and carers , and providing points of lobbying concern , points on which we can comment and that that increasingly is the way we 're working in the community care consultation process . |
| 12 | I called Bernadette in , and said Bernadette this is the way we 're going to do things from now on , and Bernadette knew which side of the bread her butter was on , so she said , of course Ricky no problem . |
| 13 | This is the way we 're gon na work it . |
| 14 | What makes Cerebral Fix — ex-Sounds EP stars — stand out is the way they 're busy twisting things around in the Death/Doom category . |
| 15 | What makes Cerebral Fix — ex-Sounds EP stars — stand out is the way they 're busy twisting things around in the Death/Doom category . |
| 16 | With this system ( see table below ) 29 reps will be performed , but it is the way they are split up that promotes the development of greater strength . |
| 17 | A reflection of this is the way they are all trying to develop their lager interests in a market where lager is growing at nearly 10 per cent per annum and is likely to command over 40 per cent of all sales this year . |
| 18 | Well , that is the way I am . |
| 19 | This is the way I am , and I figure why be different ? |
| 20 | This is the angle we 're interested in |
| 21 | Erm , his successor said , this is the man we 're going to loose . |
| 22 | ‘ The results of such an explosion are quite unknown but stupefyingly horrendous however optimistic your guess might be , if optimistic is the word I 'm looking for , which it is n't . |
| 23 | ‘ Enraged ’ is the word you are looking for , mademoiselle . |
| 24 | ‘ I think superhuman is the word you 're seeking , ’ said Tundrish . |
| 25 | bland is the word you 're looking for |
| 26 | if , is the word you 're looking for , not when |
| 27 | You had to tell them ‘ You 're not doing an ‘ O ’ level because this is the course you 're doing , and it 's a CSE' . |
| 28 | Whereas in Williams 's view country house poems tend to obscure labour , in this poem it is the owners who are almost unseen . |
| 29 | ‘ We put the hyphen between ‘ veteran ’ and ‘ cycle ’ to indicate that it is the cycles which are old , though some of the members are almost as old as the machines , ’ Ian claimed . |
| 30 | On the New Right the denial is often accompanied by the claim that it is the anti-racists who are the real racists ( Barker , 1981 ) . |