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

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1 Some women ca n't make it last the week so theirs is kept in the office .
2 Only she is feeling desperately homesick .
3 Perhaps she is Swinging . "
4 Perhaps she is getting bored , ’ said Breeze , and read on .
5 Perhaps she is going to turn into a quietly spoken , normal human being .
6 In doing so she is reviving the ‘ great divide ’ theory that has been so discredited by social anthropologists and sociolinguists .
7 so she is coming
8 The first , brief account of her long love for Kallikrates which Ayesha gives to Leo Vincey and his guardian in She is expanded in Wisdom 's Daughter to emphasise this spirituality and to excuse her sin as being due to the inexorable power of love .
9 Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days .
10 It is not possible to predict the types of security interests that will be created in the future and requiring registration of some such unforeseen interests could be unnecessarily burdensome ; even with respect to the known types of legal charge , particularly those conferring the right to possession , it would produce overkill ; and lastly it is claimed that to require the registration of all charges could dry up certain types of secured borrowing .
11 Suddenly he is suspended in the air , between two whirring propellers .
12 ‘ Then suddenly he is thrown to the wolves with the stigma of being incompetent , no good — even a fool .
13 Can I direct the hon. Gentleman 's attention to the Islington crime survey , which gives rather different evidence about how much crime is being committed and how much it is rising ?
14 And ‘ however much it is abused , it seems to work well ’ , said one participant at the Liverpool meeting of dentists last week .
15 Can you tell me how much it is to get in Elland Road these days , I would also give you petrol money .
16 Switching the cabinet voicing off , you realise just how much it is working to condition the sound ready for tape ; because without it , you are straight back to the two gnats in a bottle sound , beloved of direct outputs on many amps .
17 L M Ericsson Telefon AB is to buy the remaining 28% equity it does not already own in its Teleindustria Ericsson SA in Mexico but does not say how much it is offering : the shares are held by Mexican and foreign institutional investors , as well as by individual minorities .
18 The Government-funded Housing Corporation will reveal how much it is giving about 70 housing associations in the region .
19 ( The BBC refuses to say how much it is spending on Artrageous ! . )
20 Once you have decided what the extra staffing and other requirements are in respect of the two conferences , you can work out how much it is going to cost to accommodate them .
21 For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things .
22 Most players like to have some relief but they know with him that no matter how much he is hurting he will go on . ’
23 Apparently it is laid down as is but they 're all saying are because they thing it 's telephones are , not use is
24 Apparently it is going outside .
25 Apparently it is considered ill-bred in the extreme to speak Welsh in front of English people who do n't understand it .
26 Before long he is involved , through loyalty to a Spanish relative , in the vexed affairs of old Don Baltasar , whose seaboard estate is being used as a refuge for pirates secretly commanded by James O'Brien , a villain with a front as a respected official in the Jamaican government .
27 One of them is enclosed in the letters written by the same ship , another bill is sent overland to the factor or party to whom the goods are consigned , the third remaineth with the merchant , for his testimony against the master , if there were any occasion for loose dealing ; but especially it is kept for to serve in case of loss , to recover the value of the goods of the assurors that have undertaken to bear the adventure with you .
28 This minimum is the optimum ; expenditure above or below it is deemed wasteful for society as a whole ( de Nevers , 1981 ) .
29 The Court concluded , rightly it is submitted , that the mere fact that the defendant happens to have committed another offence in addition to the one with which he has been charged should not preclude a conviction .
30 Annually it is estimated that approximately 75 per cent of those aged 65 and over will visit their family doctor .
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