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

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1 All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things .
2 And yours truly is in the drivin' seat .
3 The best way of gittin' them off is with dental floss .
4 she already is in school , I mean you know for teaching like
5 From there she writes that she also is to be involved in classes for the elderly .
6 After that she tried even harder and now , at last , she really is off them for good . ’
7 It depicts the young Darwin as a lone , sporting gentleman , an amateur beetle-collector seeing nature as she really is by simply looking with the clear gaze of genius , unimpeded by any scientific training , theological prejudice , professional ambition and so on .
8 However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe .
9 You know so it 's it 's it 's six of one and half a dozen of the other really , but the company worker learns to be the guidelines the rules the routines of the company and er also really backs up the company line you know and what they 're doing for them really is for the company .
10 The only contact she has with them now is on the phone .
11 Many of your listeners will know the Malvern Hills , and had resort to them And the fact that they can come and enjoy them today is through the dedication of board members over a hundred and ten years . ’
12 To read about her here is like being shown someone 's snaps or scrapbook — perhaps an underrated pleasure .
13 Well it mostly is in the week anyway .
14 He purchased of me — the copies left on my hands — and he alone is to be applied to on the point you wish answered . ’
15 If the toll-road is not manned , that will almost certainly be because the road is closed by snow , as it normally is for a good seven months out of the twelve .
16 In the interests of peace and harmony ( such as it normally is on this list ) , please can we keep the topic of daft mail messages from Mad Manc off the list now ?
17 It seems to me to reduce the passport to what it generally is in practice , a not too efficient identification card , of which few authorities take much real notice .
18 This may not always be in the best interests of the company but as , on the whole , the Press acts in this area with reasonable restraint , it generally is in the best interests of investors and the public .
19 As we believe , we are allowing God to be in our lives what he already is in himself .
20 The class , located as it usually is in a prefabricated hut at the bottom of the school garden , is seen as inferior .
21 That means the cooking is even more dreadful than it usually is in these places . ’
22 It genuinely is like that and a statement like ‘ Mwat Is Murder ’ causes offence to the strictly guarded view of the nice , normal family . )
23 On such days the hills hold a mixture of azure and gold never seen at any other time of year ; the cobalt sky is more intense than it ever is in summer , and the straw-coloured hills shine strong in the light from the low winter sun .
24 The main aim of policy was — as it still is in many poor countries — to take rubbish away from places where it posed a health hazard , and ( to a lesser extent ) to make sure that waste sites were properly run .
25 Granted , hypothetically , that it may be a flexible legal concept , it nonetheless is of a nature which does not extend to the union of two people of the same sex .
26 Wright is determined at last to become as prolific for his country as he always is for Arsenal especially with Alan Shearer lurking in the wings for Holland next month .
27 It always is on the nights I 'm out with the UDR .
28 ‘ And the greatest of them is what it always is with women . ’
29 It seems that everything is as it always is in my kind of life .
30 Mark Elder took some time to strike a fair balance between stage and pit and was not always as considerate as he usually is towards the singers .
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