Example sentences of "is the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | comes out first and then you see how the padding because this wadding is stitched onto the back , and the front is the bit you put against the wound and you put it straight against the would without |
| 2 | you got the the O H is the bit you want twice so write it down put the brackets round it and then the two . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is the bit you do n't like ? |
| 5 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 6 | That , I must confess , is the bit I do n't understand . |
| 7 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 8 | That , that is the problem I ca n't change that here that and not particularly that problem back up usually here Right , it 's important to see this , so can we have a quick ten minute break and I want somebody |
| 9 | Erm well er er the figures we looked at , well i i i it , this is the problem it depends how you define your subsistence level . |
| 10 | This is the document they use in association with the with the copy . |
| 11 | How ironic that it should take me so long to know how I feel about a man and then in that same moment realise that he really is the bastard I first took him for ! |
| 12 | Which is the America I love — the America of classic showbiz , a wee utopia of lovely surfaces and lush expensiveness … ‘ |
| 13 | From a scientific rather than a psychiatric standpoint , the most interesting aspect of these bizarre tastes is the opportunity they afford for witnessing the extreme chemical insults which the body can accept and overcome . |
| 14 | However , perhaps even more significantly , certainly for the junior players , is the opportunity they have earned to go forward for a personal screening at Bradnam 's unique Herts-based Dewhurst Tennis Academy , the operation which has firmly set about the task of uncovering a future British Wimbledon champion . |
| 15 | One of the little pleasures of life in Downing Street is the opportunity it affords to dish out baubles of one kind or another . |
| 16 | A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living . |
| 17 | The key advantage of membership of HIAN is the opportunity it provides for international networking . |
| 18 | The key advantage of membership of HIAN is the opportunity it provides for international networking . |
| 19 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 20 | Hill said : ‘ This is the opportunity I have worked for and I would like to thank the team for putting their faith in me . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You can not point to a wave and say , ‘ that is the wave I rode ’ , as you can say , ‘ that is the mountain I climbed ’ . |
| 23 | Love is the evidence you need which proves the benign nature of the universe . |
| 24 | The ‘ nominal essence ’ of the clock is the idea we have of it and , as with gold , this will vary from person to person . |
| 25 | Similarly , a figure of three lines enclosing a space , which is the idea we have of a triangle , has various properties as a consequence of being constructed in that way , properties such as having internal angles equal to two right angles , and external angles equal to internal opposites . |
| 26 | But what is most striking about both books is the sense they give of how desolate and enclosed an adolescence could be , at opposite ends of the society . |
| 27 | If that is the sense they give to the word ‘ Panslavism ’ , oh ! then I am a Panslav . |
| 28 | What is striking about these two books is the sense they convey — little less unusual now than when they were written — of a strong and independent black community , in which people found their own way rather than having it mapped out for them by white expectations . |
| 29 | you know and , and not only goes without the psychoanalyse , at least this is the sense I get not only about psychoanalyse , but also to sort of knocked out and , and er maybe that 's , maybe that 's trying to do and that was the point I also have n't read the book so I do n't know . |
| 30 | the abolition of profit making and democratic control mark out cooperation as nothing less than a revolution , so fundamental , vital , and transforming is the change it is effecting in the economic structure of society … |