Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 After a leisurely breakfast accompanied by the Sunday papers , perhaps you 'd like to discover the local beauty spots of which Royal Deeside is justifiably proud .
2 ‘ Perhaps we 're all wrong about Mons. Perhaps Napoleon is just swinging open the front doors and ignoring the back gate . ’
3 The revolving crane in Super-Phenix is still not working properly .
4 Northamptonshire is often referred to as the County of ‘ Spires and Squires ’ , but village churches often have towers .
5 There , raggamuffin rules and Tuff Gong is just a part of the dollar-hoover tourist industry .
6 My own favourite , putting price aside , was the Western Systems , but if you want value for money then the Phoenix is well worth a look .
7 Manager Malcolm Crosby is already without regular strikers Don Goodman , Peter Davenport and Colin Pascoe .
8 It says the company 's marketing of Cisco is dangerously deceptive ; it induces unsuspecting teenagers to guzzle it as if it were a standard spritzer .
9 Though packaged to look like a low-alcohol spritzer — all soft lines and pastel colours — a 12-ounce bottle of Cisco is as intoxicating as five shots of 100-proof liquor .
10 Ya , Rohit is so talented .
11 To tie up all the loose ends of my previous articles , the Monday night series at Home Pierrepont is now over .
12 Harrogate figure has more or less doubled , Selby is slightly increased , Ryedale is slightly increased .
13 In June 1964 , The Autocar 's testers remarked , ‘ In its appointments the Austin-Healey 3000 MkIII is now more or a touring car than a sports car .
14 I do n't think the Stanley Spencer is right over the fireplace .
15 Mr Gorbachev is already pulling troops and tanks out of Eastern Europe .
16 Besides , why seek a deal on looser Soviet control in Eastern Europe when Mr Gorbachev is already loosening his grip ?
17 As a result both agencies have to continue claiming that Russia is facing terrible threats from the West and therefore that their existence is essential despite the fact that Gorbachev is busily telling the Russian people that co-existence is not only possible but desirable as are many aspects of capitalist society .
18 For now Mr Gorbachev is just managing to continue what he does best : keeping his show on the road .
19 President Gorbachev is as uncertain as everyone about what the future of the two — perhaps one — German states will be , but there is no doubt that the Gorbachev vision of a new Europe had to encompass the Wall 's disappearance .
20 In the past , whenever he has erred on the side of too much order , the judgment inside the Soviet Union and outside has been that ‘ Gorbachev is as good as we 'll get ’ .
21 Finally , at 58 Mr Gorbachev is still at the height of his powers .
22 Epsilon Cephei is just in the × 7 field with Beta Lacertæ ( 4.4 ) .
23 Mu Cephei is only of the fifth magnitude ( at least , generally so ; it is somewhat variable ) , so that with the naked eye it is not impressive even though it is actually redder than Betelgeux .
24 Cunningham is here as a deputy for Scott Hastings .
25 Peter Cunningham is still at university and is now joined by younger brother Michael , and Paul Mitchell is on crutches and will be out to Christmas .
26 The exact origins of the Viennese school of building are not known , but Stein is generally accepted as its most important precursor .
27 Before settling down to a tour of the old quarter ( and Stein is almost entirely an old quarter ) , it is a good idea to face the climb to the Burg Hohenklingen , from the battlements of which there is a breathtaking view of the Rhine winding its way through flat green pastures and dense woodland , and of the closely clustered pointed roofs of Stein itself .
28 In the ‘ sting ’ ( never easily seen from England and the northern United States , and not at all from Scotland ) Lesath and Shaula give the impression of being a very wide pair , but they are not associated ; of the two Lesath is much the more luminous and remote .
29 ‘ Thank God , ’ cried Snow White , ‘ Dopey is still alive . ’
30 After looking at Dragonfly we briefly discussed which riffs by other players had the same sort of feel , and ended up jamming our way through Hendrix 's Spanish Castle Magic , Manic Depression , Purple Haze and Voodoo Chile — also Clapton 's Forever Man and White Room .
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