Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be brought up on covered pitches only is like learning English without a concurrent basic grounding in Latin . |
| 2 | A HOLE in the ground that would engulf St Paul 's Cathedral 30 times over is at the centre of a row over Britain 's application to join the minor league of strategic-metals producers . |
| 3 | WATCHING the four Highwaymen step up to their microphones together is like watching one of those westerns in which the grizzled heroes finally stand shoulder to shoulder . |
| 4 | As one manager put it to me : ‘ None of the companies here is in the business of finding reasons not to pay legitimate claims . ’ |
| 5 | So unless there is a downpour overnight , the Grand National best time set by Mr Frisk three years ago is under threat . |
| 6 | A BORDER town where major film The Playboys was shot two years ago is on the brink of another cine bonanza . |
| 7 | Incidentally everything I 'm I 'm doing here whoops everything I 'm doing here with you all the two days here is in thought patterns . |
| 8 | Each of the questions above is worth exploring , especially because final paragraphs and sentences often fall into one of a number of largely unsatisfactory idioms , each with its own way of dealing with ending less as an opportunity than as an escape . |
| 9 | As he says , the best way to sharpen things up is through repeated performances . |
| 10 | Now , what the potential migrant will do , Harrison Todaro assumed , was to say , right what they 'll do is that they 'll , these migrants will mentally calculate the present value of receiving W A throughout their lifetime , right , and they 'll discount erm those wages by appropriate discount rate , reflecting the fact that a hundred pounds today is worth a lot more than a hundred pounds twenty years ' time or thirty years ' time . |
| 11 | The emphasis upon company securities therefore is to be expected . |
| 12 | Indeed , if the scores are in reality comparable across countries , The Times today is about as difficult as Dagens Nyheter was in 1900 ! |
| 13 | But most of the score-for 40 wind and percussion players without strings-is about immensity rather than detail , above all in the last movement . |
| 14 | However , for the Partnerships more is at stake . |
| 15 | Perhaps the only occasion suggested in this chapter where you would n't want to press the flowers immediately is on Valentine 's Day . |
| 16 | Now the view er was that they were dignified and above taking action and also in the sense that the public was credited I think with more sense than to believe everything and that the public memory is relatively short and therefore if you start a court action and you then have coverage in the court action , you are merely making the thing worse erm sometimes the things that some people may have thought were highly actionable one day , become almost a joke and something of affection later on and you can , one of the classics maybe is about the Prince of Wales talking to his plants , now that a national joke and he will make jokes about it in speeches |
| 17 | When selected , a mode is accompanied by a different coloured LED on the front panel , and the way it all pans out is like this : Rhythm ‘ Green ’ gives you fat vintage ; Rhythm ‘ Yellow ’ is modern bright ; Lead 1 ‘ Green ’ is vintage lead ( la Mark I Boogie ) ; Lead 1 ‘ Yellow ’ simulates old Marshalls etc. ; Lead 1 ‘ Red ’ is souped-up Brit-style lead ; Lead 2 ‘ Green ’ offers half-cranked Boogie lead ; Lead 2 ‘ Yellow ’ is classic Mark II-C or Mark IV Boogie lead ; Lead 2 ‘ Red ’ produces bright Boogie lead . |
| 18 | One of my jobs here is to erm is to sell the centre in a sense . |