Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] is [adj] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Alice said generously , ‘ Perhaps it is worse for you and Oliver , really .
2 Perhaps it is used to us picking out its feet , and filing them , and yet it will not stand still for the farrier .
3 Perhaps it is churlish of me , after the kind remarks of the Minister , to venture to comment on what he has just said , but at the risk of being tiresome , may I point out that what I said before was that it does not follow that a decision made by the Home Secretary corresponds with the advice that he receives from the chief inspector .
4 Obviously he is entitled to it if he has got a good case .
5 Er so it is important to them .
6 The stiff rein indicates that the horse is not carrying or pushing as much with that inside hind leg and so it is easier for him to shy ( and so stop going forward ) , if he is not working as well in the first instance .
7 My niece is only little , but already she is susceptible to it , wearing T-shirts and baseball caps .
8 Thus it is important for them that commitments to work , once they are given , are honoured .
9 COUNTESS : 'Tiis true , sir , I see now it is one of mine .
10 Now it is important for me to tell the story correctly .
11 Well he is worried about them having an accident with it but , but he 's not er worried about him having the motorbike , no he cos he would have done the same as a er child anyway well things like that , but erm what he 's worried about is that er with Ryan i and the other boy , n not Ryan so much , the other boy does it all the time , they 're churning all the grass up all over there in great big
12 Not surprisingly it is difficult for us to decide both how good and how genuinely popular all live variety was , let alone its precise relationship to the new entertainment of the movies .
13 Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing .
14 Maybe it is feasible for you to find someone who knows you well enough to comment ( friend , family or colleague ) and to give you some personal insights .
15 So if America and Britain have any objection to the way Libya is handling the Lockerbie allegations , then it is incumbent on them to demand international arbitration .
16 If my information is helpful to Eliot , who apparently has the energy to carry on the struggle against the new overlords , then he is welcome to it .
17 Consequently it is necessary for him to provide her with feedback so that she is aware that her opinion is duly considered .
18 Indeed it is impossible for us to imagine a social system operated by human beings which was not ordered by language ; human culture , as we know it , could not have been invented by a society of deaf mutes .
19 Maybe he is entitled to it ; he was , after all , prescient .
20 Yet it is rare for them to be made to take the responsibility for it .
21 Again it is unnecessary for him to explain his reluctance to respond in the circumstances to the hope of this reviewer that he would again delight us with an introduction of the wide sweep of brilliance with which he embellished Volume II .
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