Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Saddest disappointment is Branagh himself ( who ) proves a curiously anodyne screen presence . |
| 2 | One of his killers is the high-minded Virginsky who ‘ will never , never abandon these bright hopes ’ ( my italics ) , and another member of the quintet is Shigalov who pulls out of the affair at the very last moment , not from fear or pity or remorse but because the murder ‘ is in direct contradiction of my programme ’ — of Shigalov 's own brand of revolutionary ideology . |
| 3 | Erm , live in Manchester , my natural place is Stockport which is , a little just outside Stockport , where I 've lived Erm , it 's taken me years to live |
| 4 | On my right is Jeff who is a founding member of the Save Campaign and an ex-patient of . |
| 5 | The Community Care Act was implemented as part of a major cultural shift is SSDs which has supposedly made services more responsive to the real needs and wishes of service users . |
| 6 | The most important figure in the latter group is Bunting himself , so little read these days that many readers will need to be told that the title of Davie 's history refers to his masterpiece Briggflatts ( 1966 ) . |
| 7 | When he says Truth is God he is really making a confession of faith rather than a statement in the indicative mood . |
| 8 | But the whole point is Mick you are stipulating |
| 9 | Well yeah but the only point is Susan she perhaps do n't like the smell of orange but then she might go in my room and pee in there if she did n't have nowhere else to go . |
| 10 | but there 's an organ is Sussex they want him to look at and erm so he said well send me a photograph er they 've got a photograph of it you see |
| 11 | Oh hi , hi there , my name is Mrs I ordered an oven about two weeks ago , I just wanted to know if it 's in er where , where we looking at that ? |
| 12 | His name is Algernon Webb-something , Stonely-Webb , oh something like that , only he could n't quite remember . |
| 13 | No , they just called him Gazza , his name is Gasgcoine nobody knows what his first name is . |
| 14 | His mos his other real name is Ron something |
| 15 | But this girl her name is Monica she looks to me as if she 's suicidal , she could do anything . " |
| 16 | but that the , the , these are some things I 've got , you do n't have to answer them my name is Emily what is your name ? , how are you ? , |
| 17 | The unifying factor is Elvis himself — or rather , Elvis constructed in particular categories , acting as embodiments of particular articulating principles , tied to particular sets of social needs and interests . |
| 18 | Because the object of contemplation is God himself , who opens to us the infinite possibilities of himself and of our own lives . |
| 19 | What is surprising is the disclosure that the source of Balaam 's knowledge is God himself . |
| 20 | The other is IBM which uses Maximum technology in its product line . |
| 21 | Grieco 's major example is Corby which , as a town based upon the steel industry , had an employment history of deliberate recruitment of workers from Scotland . |
| 22 | An example is Hienemann who produce their ‘ Skittles ’ series to supplement SPMG . |
| 23 | But the most visible victim of the unofficial economy is Italy itself . |
| 24 | Well , you see , the trouble is Marg I go out on my bike and I think , ooh it 's cold I 'll and then I forget going in the |
| 25 | At one extreme is Calvino who views technology as the occasion for a radical reconception of the act of reading . |
| 26 | First out of the gate is Pegasus which is offering its Unifacts accounting software on a four-user SCO Unix-based Intel platform — with Lotus 1–2-3 and Wordperfect — for £10,000 . |
| 27 | The capital is Sanderstown which contains a major British naval base . |
| 28 | In Britain , the equivalent is Prestel which , though stocked with stacks of useful information ( though no Madame Whiplashes ) , has failed to set the world alight . |
| 29 | The thing is Lynn you 've got to start early |
| 30 | But the thing is Mick you 've got ta get , you know yourself sorted early enough |