Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever happens in the Arc she is just a star and she is the one they 've all got to beat , ’ declares George . |
| 2 | In these latter roles She is almost always accompanied by Her divine spouse , the male God , emphasizing the fact that only in a happy marriage can the terrible and destructive aspect of the Goddess be controlled . |
| 3 | Although identification of left or right hemisphere activity represents a fairly gross level of localisation it is sometimes possible to be more precise as to the area of brain that is active . |
| 4 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 5 | The normal bass roll-off of -6dB by 38Hz is low enough to lend a convincing weight to the majority of signals and if the bass seems initially a little ‘ polite ’ to some ears it is only because it is tight , with little or no hangover — the dual coupled-cavity technique really does give a positive ‘ start and stop ’ throughout its range . |
| 6 | … however worthy the original intention it is almost inevitable that one ends up with a pretty fair rag-bag and that a carefully drawn long title offers no real defence . |
| 7 | The latter has improved again since — he was most a impressive winner on his reappearance at Newbury last month — and with fitness on his side he is very hard to oppose . |
| 8 | Although this amazing armour protects the soft body of the clam extremely well , the animal is not the killer it is so often made out to be . |
| 9 | 4.3 We would therefore submit that if anyone is getting a good deal it is most certainly not our members . |
| 10 | At that bulk it is also easier to divide into little bags . |
| 11 | As a lover he is sadly lacking , señorita . |
| 12 | A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ . |
| 13 | Of the two methods it is generally agreed that ‘ write black ’ is much better at fine lines and accurate reproduction of small typeface sizes while ‘ write white ’ is best for large areas of solid black . |
| 14 | To its regular readers it is also renowned for its humorous In England Now column , introduced 50 years ago and now the subject of a new anthology . |
| 15 | With the diff lock in neutral and the main gearbox in any gear it is really bad . |
| 16 | In Lepidoptera and Orthoptera it is usually fat , though some insects use both carbohydrate and fat and Glossina employs the amino-acid proline as an energy-furnishing reserve . |
| 17 | In soil geography it is generally suggested that the systems approach was formally applied by Nikiforoff ( 1959 ) although earlier he had distinguished accumulative and non-accumulative soils and so implicitly involved an open system attitude ( Nikiforoff , 1949 ) . |
| 18 | In some organizations it is still seen as the junior partner to sales , in others it has an equal status , in yet others it has a superior status . |
| 19 | Answer guide : In manufacturing organizations it is extremely important that there is co-ordination between the sales and the production function . |
| 20 | On issues like this Coetzee 's sensitivity and grasp of detail are shown to good effect : but with regard to the broader historical significance of these organizations he is less assured , and he leaves untouched some of the more important questions raised by his work . |
| 21 | Despite the British Council 's regional offices it is essentially London-based and urban-orientated . |
| 22 | As mentioned above , where a firm which wishes to retain its own identity has increased the number of its branch offices it is sometimes difficult to retain an acceptable degree of harmony between the component parts of the firm and the partners attached to each part . |
| 23 | My agent is not the brightest of creatures , though like many middlemen in most trades he is usually able to hide this big hole in his mind with his trendy patter and strategic placing of the latest fashionable phrase or concept . |
| 24 | Although the Code is the tool of the qualified practitioner it is still the model for all current nursing students in preparing for their roles as nurses and advocates of the patient . |
| 25 | However , for purely electromagnetic waves it is less clear . |
| 26 | As a result it is perhaps not surprising that new advocacy schemes can be viewed with suspicion or seen as ‘ troublemaking . ’ |
| 27 | As a result it is much more difficult for toads to extract water from clay . |
| 28 | As a result it is often difficult to analyse the errors of a probabilistic system in an effort to improve its performance . |
| 29 | As a result it is highly unlikely that a party with a serious commitment to any substantial change in the institutional form of the market would ever get elected as it would be portrayed and perceived as being ‘ too extreme ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ As a result it is better protected against cold winds than it used to be . ’ |