Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | c ) At 5 pm. she is again 30km from home . |
| 2 | A formal dinner means that the person opposite you is probably the only one well placed for speech readability ; those on either side of you are too close . |
| 3 | All day long she is never satisfied . |
| 4 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |
| 5 | I think he allows her considerable freedom over her — her weakness , you know , and so she is quite content to work for him whatever the village may say of him , and they do , to be sure , say some very foolish things . |
| 6 | So she is highly observant , good at noticing things . |
| 7 | So she is as interested as I am in our surroundings : china cabinets full of dishes and ornaments inherited from the households of several unknown and long-dead cousins , armchairs with bloated cushions , a piano that no one has played in forty years . |
| 8 | She is so She is so rude I swear . |
| 9 | ‘ But inside she is only dust . |
| 10 | Lastly it is most important of all that teachers apply the process of clarification to their own values and their own vision of education , and it is to this issue that we will turn in the next chapter . |
| 11 | And then , after the years of expectation and hope , the reading and planning , suddenly it is there , in the flesh — and it is great ! |
| 12 | Suddenly he is more relaxed and confident and those horrible little worms of self-doubt which are perpetually burrowing away in a golfer 's head are banished for a few holes , anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ Apparently it is virtually unknown for a Person who has been murdered to be found with closed eyes . ’ |
| 14 | Apparently it is too old-fashioned and cluttered for the great master to have had anything to do with it — despite the fact that Lord Burlington , the aristocratic architect , was convinced of his having designed it . |
| 15 | Apparently it is still hoping to do something with some of the software it has developed internally . |
| 16 | My problem is one of gearing — basically it is too low in all gears . |
| 17 | Usually , the valedictions of old-boy poets are addressed to writers just above them on poetry 's wobbly squash ladder — thus Wright addresses his hello-and-goodbyes to C. H. Sissons , David Gascoyne , Charles Causeley ( Do you remember how we met/In the studio of Patrick Swift … ) , and George Barker ( So long it is since first we met , /And in another world , it seems , /Where , out of pocket , down at heels , /Night after night in Rathbone Place … ) |
| 18 | In industry especially it is very difficult to have self-management in this transition period from a state-directed to a market economy . |
| 19 | When organisms learn naturally it is usually through a mixture of these and other slightly different types of learning . |
| 20 | If the review is upwards only he is highly unlikely to want to initiate the review himself , but the uncertainty of not knowing what his rent is may hamper him in conducting or investing in his business , or in disposing of his lease . |
| 21 | If Australians , therefore , feel it is time to cut free from Britain constitutionally it is probably not before time — and who better to set the ball rolling than the man who provoked a diplomatic incident by daring to put his arm round the Queen during her visit last year ? |
| 22 | For this latter reason alone it is crucially important as a matter of artistic integrity that Miller , the invented man , does not have too much in common with me . |
| 23 | Like " freedom " , " equality " , " justice " , " human rights ' , and so forth , " democracy " is a term which , whatever its precise meaning , will always signify for many a cherished political principle or Ideal , and for that reason alone it is never likely to achieve a single agreed meaning . |
| 24 | The biggest problem with the diabetic clinic is that time tends to be very limited and perhaps it is best regarded as a place for assessment and the identification of problems , with a little time for education . |
| 25 | Perhaps it is best viewed as a correlator . |
| 26 | Perhaps it is best just to list the policy areas to be discussed . |
| 27 | Perhaps it is simply the case that this is very difficult to get at by methods which are feasible . |
| 28 | Perhaps it is simply a need to humanise what is , after all , rather an inhuman subject . ) |
| 29 | Perhaps it is simply that you do not have the courage to do so . |
| 30 | And the novel which got written breathes life into this sentence 's very unpromising warrant for the ‘ truth ’ of what is being told , namely that there are hard facts or perhaps it is just being made up . |