Example sentences of "[verb] it is [adj] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say this would be to deny the universality of what Professor A. J. Ayer says it is natural for us to assume , namely that we use the same word in different situations because we have noticed a distinctive common feature . |
| 2 | When their control is threatened it is possible for them to obtain relief by displacing a prominently misbehaving pupil . |
| 3 | If you want to motivate them to go out and sell that product , you 've got to make them feel it is important to them . |
| 4 | The problem is that when a parent is feeling depressed or overwrought it is difficult for them to think of alternative strategies . |
| 5 | ‘ I am here to plead my case with my father 's creditors and to sell the family jewels , I suppose it is selfish of me to be concerned with such trifles when you have such pressing concerns like where you shall live , in the London home or at Summer Lodge . ’ |
| 6 | They include power to enter , at any reasonable time , any premises which he has reason to believe it is necessary for him to enter for the purpose of carrying into effect any of the legal provisions within the field of responsibility of his enforcing authority . |
| 7 | I hesitate to use adjectives as to what they would be like if they did n't spend at that level , but we believe it is possible for them to do so and there is something wrong with their spending levels if they do n't do it . |
| 8 | I mean I mentioned earlier the fact that it might be that people perceive sexual harassment , where in fact the behaviour has been perfectly appropriate and it 's just that the person perceiving it is unused to it , but I think that 's the minority of cases , incidentally . |
| 9 | Having previously discussed it with John , I declined to join them on their expedition to the temples at P. as I feel it is important to them both to have time alone with each other , especially as is at the moment a bit jealous of the twin at school here ( though of course he , chose to opt out of Gordonstoun ) and has anyway not spent as much time with John in recent years as no 2 ! has . |
| 10 | BELVILLE : Do you think it is possible for you to love me preferably to any other of my sex ? |
| 11 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 12 | But Yanek said , " I have thought about it , Grandfather , and I think it is right for me to go . " |
| 13 | I think it is right for me to receive the report and then to examine it . |
| 14 | That is why I think it is good for me to go back to Scotland to remember that there is a world outside London and television . |
| 15 | I think it is rebellious of you , that you can not be bothered to find a falsehood with which to flatter me . ’ |
| 16 | But I think it is important for us to er , as an individual authority as well as working with other authorities , to actually keep up the pressure on the Ministry to , to let them know that this is n't going to go away , and that they 've got to come up with some answers which are , which are going to try and satisfy people . |