Example sentences of "[vb past] is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of PW involved is colossal , amounting , in von Seeler 's own estimate , to some 30,000 men , composed as follows 10,000 Germans … 13,000 Slovenes All front line fighters . |
| 2 | In The man whom we visited is a cousin of mine the clause whom we visited is adjectival , qualifying the man . |
| 3 | Coppell said : ‘ I am Ian 's biggest fan and the goal he scored is special . |
| 4 | Lovell 's overall conclusion on the results of the tests he surveyed is pessimistic : he writes ‘ … it seems to me that the weight of empirical evidence is sufficiently strong to compel us to suspend belief in the hypothesis of rational expectations , pending the accumulation of additional empirical evidence ’ ( Lovell , 1986 , p.12 ) . |
| 5 | Although the link between signifier and signified is arbitrary , the relationships amongst signifiers and amongst signifieds are relationships of value : |
| 6 | Police in Cambridge said that the explosion was minor , adding : ‘ To say it exploded is correct but putting it strongly — it apparently fizzed . ’ |
| 7 | He says he completely failed to understand the Palestinian revolution ( p. 3 ) , that he could never completely identity with the nation or their movement ( p. 90 ) , that he participated for fun ( p. 9 ) , that his record of what happened is inaccurate ( p. 19 ) , that writing itself is a lie ( p. 27 ) and memory unreliable ( p. 39 ) . |
| 8 | Exactly how this happened is intriguing . |
| 9 | What happened is instructive about the attitude of the Government . |
| 10 | What happened is indisputable : students , and the institutions to which they belonged , acquired a bad name universally . |
| 11 | Gregory 's account of what actually happened is laconic in the extreme . |
| 12 | QUITE HOW it happened is open to public conjecture , but from being ‘ just another band ’ a few milliseconds back , the sumptuous , swaggering pearls of suave currently referred to as Suede today find themselves the red-hottest property on a lukewarm market . |
| 13 | When they hit the moon part of the moon they hit is bright and the part of the moon that er they do n't hit |
| 14 | Do you think the man who rang is Spanish ? |
| 15 | At precisely what date he went is difficult to determine , for although Ibn Hajar states that he went to Egypt in 778/1376–7 , he follows this immediately with the statement whereas in fact Molla Fenari should have been twenty-seven years of age at that date according to the birthdate given by Ibn Hajar himself . |
| 16 | CABBIE I ROBBED IS NEAR DEATH |
| 17 | The exuberance he felt is manifest in his drawings : rarely have topographical subjects been treated with such freedom and energy . |
| 18 | But then I thought actually all this adds up to what you want is someone you feel safe with , someone you feel is going to look after the country and its people well , and I thought is Major somebody I feel safe with , and I thought well in some ways because I do n't think he 's going to turn round and do anything nasty to me , but on the other hand erm I wonder — I 'm going back to your question — is he a man of substance ? |
| 19 | I 'll suggest that I thought is fucking crazy , you know |
| 20 | The sample of cloth you sent is fine cotton . |
| 21 | This month 's delicious dinner party is just right for fraught festive days — and as end-of-the-year budgets are likely to be tight , none of the wines the GH team chose is expensive . |
| 22 | What form of building this curia took is unknown , though it may not have been unlike a principia . |
| 23 | The place at which it appeared is relevant . |
| 24 | Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status . |
| 25 | I think that the summary which you gave is fair also in relation to E N V Eleven and Twelve , yes . |
| 26 | The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ . |
| 27 | When he introduced the report in the house , my right honourable friend , the member for Kingston upon Thames made is clear that he accepted them all and that the government was committed to carrying them out . |
| 28 | Then we clad and ran off home then we went back mishchifing again we came to a boy and shoved he down in the grass and piched is sweet and then we ran off then I made a apple bom then I chudet it then we went home . |
| 29 | Against the living death of modern material civilisation he spoke again and again , and even if these dead could speak , what he said is unanswerable . |
| 30 | And they then say well right , cos every time an accountant does your books at the front of your , the actual like er the booklet what you get on your accounts it says at the front something like these accounts have erm have been audited but only erm we have taken the word of Mr that what he said is right . |