Example sentences of "[adv] is [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reason people have been wearing Adidas Shell-toes and Puma States in the past year or so is because Nike , Adidas , Troop , Converse , British Knights , Travel Fox , Reebok , LA Gear , Hi-Tec , Jordache , etc , are producing some of the silliest , shittiest trainers known to man ( and woman ) . |
| 2 | The most a discourse analyst could say about a discourse fragment such as the sentence in ( 8 ) above is that Mary is potentially part of the topic of the discourse in which ( 8 ) occurred , but more information is required , as indeed is also the case for both extracts ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) . |
| 3 | The first thing that comes through is that Charlie Francis is a very good coach . |
| 4 | Well the Fox prediction tonight is that Oxford United will draw and probably beat them at the Manor . |
| 5 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 6 | and finally , among the many good reasons to be home is that Durham XI play cricket against Lancashire XI at Shildon next Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday . |
| 7 | The only way we will go up is if RA do us a favour . ’ |
| 8 | As police search for a motive for the killing , one possibility they have n't ruled out is that Mr Miles could have disturbed a burglar . |
| 9 | what I do n't understand though is if Napier students get a certificate or a diploma are they going to be able to call themselves D I P M A I E without being a member of the organisation . |
| 10 | The CSU 's problem now is that Germany 's political map has changed utterly and it has no one of Strauss 's size . |
| 11 | The way I and others who witnessed the incident feel now is that Ian Woosnam 's game is well over par . |
| 12 | The word from Lilongwe now is that Chihana will be charged with sedition , a capital offence . |
| 13 | and I constantly wonder now is that Robin Harris speaking or is that Mrs Thatcher ? |
| 14 | What I feel I know now is that God does n't intervene . |
| 15 | The situation now is that SERC is within its spending profile . |
| 16 | The big question now is whether Mr Mitsotakis will win an overall majority next month . |
| 17 | The question now is whether Mr Clinton is going to be forward-looking ; to give shape to a sense of what the next American Dream , and what America 's post-cold-war role , could be . |
| 18 | The crucial difference now is as Salome had declared , and is as true on a small and insubstantial island group like Tonga as in the capitals of Japan , Chile , Queensland or Korea : the difference is that the peoples of the Pacific no longer have a reason to look up to those adventurers from the old Atlantic . |
| 19 | One of the bizarre things I find today is that England does n't really like traders . |
| 20 | The increasingly accepted argument in Israel today is that Eretz Israel in any case belongs primarily to the Jews and that all the Palestinian Arabs , refugee or otherwise , have a lesser claim upon it . |
| 21 | I say that the greatest tragedy in the world today is that God had made man in his image and made him to worship him , made him to play the harp of worship before the face of God day and night , but he has failed God and dropped the harp . |
| 22 | The question that arises here is whether Gandhi is referring to an ‘ essence ’ or ‘ primordial element ’ when he speaks of the heart of one religion being identical with the heart of another religion . |
| 23 | What is being alleged here is that NBFIs create assets which are in some close measure substitutes for money and which have their own advantages , interest perhaps or long-term capital gain , which money does not have . |
| 24 | But the point here is that Wilde also lived in terms of the discrepancy between his ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ selves , and took pleasure from it — from having a sexual identity elsewhere at the same time as being socially ‘ here ’ . |
| 25 | Couples added : ‘ One of the reasons we are here is that Davis and I are such good friends . |
| 26 | If ideology is the science of ideas , of broad metaphysical or abstract speculation , then the best that can be said here is that Odilon Redon pursued a private visionary agenda . |
| 27 | The important point here is that Aristotle 's women are not autonomous , not because they lack abilities or capacities but because they lack authority ; that is , their right to make decisions , to speak for themselves is not acknowledged . |
| 28 | The significant fact here is that Horace has his metre-bound say in three words ; of the renderings quoted , only one is as brief ( Leishman ) , the others running from five words ( Raffel ) to eight words ( Housman ) . |
| 29 | ‘ The overwhelming feeling here is that Mr Salmond should go and that comes from people who have consistently supported him . ’ |
| 30 | One of the points which might be made here is that Labov sets out explicitly to provide a model for handling communities not known to the investigator . |