Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , that sounds very persuasive to all of us nowadays and I fully believe it , that part of what makes me me is in fact er the fact that I 'm this shape and this size |
| 2 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 3 | But presented with the royal ultimatum to spend the festive season in the bosom of a family with which she is at war , Diana made her heartbreak decision . |
| 4 | Thus Britain has committed heavy expenditures to just those areas in which she is at a massive comparative disadvantage against the USA . |
| 5 | That announcement to W. could , in my judgment , only serve to underline to her the extent to which she is in control . |
| 6 | Another parliamentary colleague consistently to make the connection between Britain 's economic policies and the European morass into which she is in danger of sinking is Nicholas Budgen , Member for Wolverhampton . |
| 7 | Another way in which we is by encouraging and facilitating employee volunteering . |
| 8 | Yet apart from the story of his binding , a long account of the finding of a wife for him , for the bulk of which he is off stage , and a story about him on his death-bed which is primarily about his sons , Jacob and Esau , there is but one chapter devoted to him ( ch. |
| 9 | He classified his poems on Hartleian principles , e.g. Imagination , Affection , Sentiment and Reflection , and in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads he explained that one of the functions of poetry is to show how ‘ we associate ideas in a state of excitement ’ ; Wordsworth did not expect his poems to ‘ gratify certain known habits of association ’ — he will provide new associations and ‘ create the taste by which he is to be enjoyed ’ . |
| 10 | Even if the witness is willing , the law of the place in which he is to be examined may be such as to render the examination inadequate . |
| 11 | He may not in fact manage to produce what meets the requirement , even when something he knows about would meet the requirement ; but that is simply a failure in a sort of performance in which he is at least sometimes capable of success , while no instrument is ever capable of it at all . |
| 12 | The Boy does not have that rather hoarse sound that Falla wanted , but sounds merely like a well-trained choirboy. master peter sounds neither servile , which he is at the start , nor terrified , which he should be at the end . |
| 13 | The conditions of his social scientific success have been the denunciation of the Parisian intellectual avant-garde , which he is at the same time quite integrally part and parcel of . |
| 14 | ‘ All I want is for him to be happy and secure , ’ Vitor assured her , ‘ which he is with you . |
| 15 | Then comes the expected , ‘ unless the custody officer has reasonable grounds for believing that his detention without being charged is necessary to secure or preserve evidence relating to an offence for which he is under arrest or to obtain such evidence by questioning him ’ [ emphasis added ] . |
| 16 | Your employer would , of course , have to agree to your continuing to work , which he is under no compulsion to do . |
| 17 | What diversifiers should have done instead , reckons Mr Chandler ( a point on which he is in wholehearted agreement with folk such as Mr Peters ) , was to concentrate their resources on ‘ reinventing ’ their existing businesses . |
| 18 | This is an important recognition for the narrator , for gradually in his quest for Bazlen he too comes to accept that he is ‘ passing through ’ , and that the truth of which he is in pursuit is not an object fixed in time and space . |
| 19 | He has an interesting and persuasive voice , for which he is in ever-increasing demand outside the USA . |
| 20 | Obsessional neurosis is shown in the patient 's being occupied with thoughts in which he is in fact not interested , in his being aware of impulses which appear very strange to him and his being led to actions the performance of which give him no enjoyment but which it is quite impossible for him to omit . |
| 21 | They are those of a man working imaginatively within the framework of an ideological system with which he is in entire agreement . |
| 22 | Except when they are earned by the professor as the supervisor of graduate students , as an academic adviser under the regulations for Recognized Students , or ( subject to the approval of the faculty board or boards concerned and the General Board , including approval as to the length of time for which the permission shall be given ) in respect of tutorial teaching for up to four hours per week ( exceptionally up to six hours per week ) , any fees received for lectures or instruction given by the professor in the University shall be applied towards meeting the expenses of the department of which he is in charge or , if he is not in charge of the department , shall be paid to the Curators of the University Chest for the credit of the University General Fund . |
| 23 | The dolphin has undergone some remarkable adaptations in order to survive a life in which it is under water much of the time . |
| 24 | that it appears to my Lords that this space of ground , including property in Downing-Street which the Board of Works has the power to appropriate to the purposes of public offices , will be sufficient for any new buildings which it is at present desirable to commence in that locality . |
| 25 | Welcoming Lenin 's New Economic Policy , he expressed the hope that the development of Anglo-Soviet trade would persuade Russia to ‘ throw away the last shreds of Bolshevism and Communism by which it is at present fettered . ’ |
| 26 | That is the really fruitful aspect of Cézanne 's painting and the reason for which it is at the root of all the modern tendencies . ’ |
| 27 | Analysis of the exceptions in Taskopruzade/Mecdi is difficult on two grounds , first that one can not , in the period covered by them , be absolutely sure of the status of either the medreses or the kadiliks involved , and second , that neither author is inclined to give the sort of detail that Ata'i gives in , for example , the biography of Molla Bostan , alluded to just above , from which it is at least arguable that Molla Bostan 's re-entering the medrese stream was exceptional . |
| 28 | It seems to be a very sensible move by the Ministry of Defence to alter the structure of our forces in the way in which it is at present proceeding . |
| 29 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 30 | Few elitists now hold to the notion of a single dominant elite effectively exercising or directing the exercise of all important functions , and few now use the term ‘ elite ’ as the all-embracing explanatory concept which it is for the classical theorists . |