Example sentences of "is [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is piecework and it pays next to nothing . |
| 2 | the postcode is Guildford and you 've got Aldershot or there 's and there 's another one that is three different cou another one |
| 3 | For example , to say of what is in fact honey that it is n't honey , or of what is n't honey that it is , is false ; whereas to say of what is honey that it is honey , or of what is n't that it is n't , is true . |
| 4 | It is Magnus And you 'd better believe it |
| 5 | I do n't know if it is coincidence that I own a red Escort van , have canoed the Fairy Glen on numerous occasions and have had words with the café owner about car parking . |
| 6 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |
| 7 | Major congestion is building and you are asked to avoid the area if you can . |
| 8 | The question of what is base and what is superstructure becomes relevant . |
| 9 | There is direction and there is structure . |
| 10 | So maybe things are very slow erm but I think there is hope that they are changing . |
| 11 | I can quite honestly say that it is ages since I have had an evening of such delight ; and the personal interest of reading a friend 's work had very little to do with it . |
| 12 | In human play there is concentration on preparation for social life through symbolic play , that is play where there is a breaking down of the limiting distinction between the real and the imagined . |
| 13 | The freedoms of childhood include flirting with father and attempting to seduce mother in the safe knowledge that this is play and it will not get out of hand . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 15 | The cautionary phase here is watch where you 're putting your feet . |
| 16 | I said , well the important thing is Jan if you are like this you obviously did n't like , there 's no way I 'm going to meet her you 're obviously thinking it over I said so the first thing you 've got ta do is turn up on Monday and meet her cos erm , then well you 'll know . |
| 17 | His company is Fidelity and its answer has been Stabiliser , a range of unit trusts which aim to minimise the risks if stock markets fall . |
| 18 | This is the reason why there is reliance when it occurs . |
| 19 | There is formality when there has to be , but everyone who visits either house is immediately put at ease . |
| 20 | A template configuration file is supplied with LIFESPAN ; its name is EXAMPLE.DAT and it is in your SYS$LIFESPAN directory ( see Appendix G ) . |
| 21 | The return fare to the conference is £1,800 and it is felt that Cleveland Ambulance can not justify the expense of public money on one person . |
| 22 | ’ ‘ E was n't ‘ is amanuensis or nuffink , ’ Dury explained . |
| 23 | Although she often maintained that it was her own choice not to attend , she told an American interviewer , I would love to go to board meetings where he [ Bernard ] is chairman but I 'm not invited . |
| 24 | They know time is money so they have a policy of buying it with yours and everyone else 's . |
| 25 | This is money that we 've lost . |
| 26 | ‘ All the money that Sheikh Osman has used in the past few weeks in his war against the Copts is money that you have given him . ’ |
| 27 | Yeah , everything is photo-ops and it 's weird to see photo-ops in a war . |
| 28 | It is months since I have been near them . ’ |
| 29 | Likewise , if it is tin that you hanker for , Jones is in charge of 150000 tonnes of the material that his political masters have decided they no longer need . |
| 30 | If Basic Instinct is trash than it is trash of a distinguished standard . |