Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du n no how old she is but looks good on it anyway erm the erm the er let's do these these bits of paper er lost cats and dogs and things . |
| 2 | Well I do n't know who she is that sends letters out to your nana , but she 's bloody useless ! |
| 3 | Nothing better illustrates the impossibility of separating off the individual personality from the wider social groups of which he or she is or has been a member , than the analysis of the development of conscience , that is , in Freud 's terminology , the superego . |
| 4 | that he or she is or has been a director of a company which has at any time become insolvent ( whether while he or she was a director or subsequently ) ; and |
| 5 | I 'll er go and counsel Yvonne where she is and see if she 's |
| 6 | You feel insecure do n't you and there she is and look come off it ! |
| 7 | I 'm in the same position as she is and share exactly the same sentiments . |
| 8 | Option one means the hospital stays as it is but take the money away so it collapses anyway . |
| 9 | It is but bearing in mind the lifestyle that you 've got now , you 've got a very good lifestyle . |
| 10 | I know it is but do n't play around with that ! |
| 11 | When he needs what you have gleaned , it is but squeezing you and , sponge , you shall be dry again . |
| 12 | Cat-equipped two-litre 16-valve engine sounds even more potent than it is but gives good economy . |
| 13 | This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man . |
| 14 | when it comes to looking for x-ray or path lab or whatever it is but finding your way out . |
| 15 | I never dared to ask , but I understand now what it is that drives addicts back to the needle time and time again whatever the cost to their health and sanity ; I understand now what the mystics lay claim to when they speak of the peace that passeth all understanding . |
| 16 | The parents will begin to identify what it is that irritates them so much . |
| 17 | If one considers the difference between my father at such moments and a figure such as Mr Jack Neighbours even with the best of his technical flourishes , I believe one may begin to distinguish what it is that separates a ‘ great ’ butler from a merely competent one . |
| 18 | You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet . |
| 19 | It 's a previously unexplored area , but W.H.Smith/Do It All commissioned a media psychologist , Jane Firbank , to investigate what it is that motivates a phenomenally , perhaps weirdly , growing pastime . |
| 20 | The approach to understanding organisations that concentrates its focus on people within organisations needs to be aware of what it is that motivates people within those organisations . |
| 21 | We have already examined the Human Relations approach to organisations , and this is a precursor to examining what it is that motivates people to perform within organisations . |
| 22 | For you know I often wonder what sort of morality it is that keeps men from anything but superficial intercourse with any woman but their wives : yet I hate adultery & all the intermediate stages ; and what men of free habits in this way I have known , I have detested . |
| 23 | I think too that we should reflect upon who it is that receives the blame er when policing falls below the standards which we would all think appropriate . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain . |
| 25 | By contrast , how is the primary school to manage what it is that passes to the secondary school ? |
| 26 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 27 | I wonder what it is that intervenes to make him so self-destructive ? ’ |
| 28 | Whatever it is that decides when such changes in fashion , in culture , come about — I 'd say that is the real futurology , the thing to try to predict … |
| 29 | In the approach that follows , the inspirational , you can use the participative approach to find what exactly it is that you 've got in common and what it is that turns people on . |
| 30 | It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are |