Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies which find it more difficult because it 's the centre of their existence , erm , are clearly looking at the situation , but will actually take a very long time to move to the position which you , in your particular group would like them to occupy , and I understand that , changing in I C I is rather different from changing at I B M , and er , therefore it takes longer , but I do see a a consciousness , it 's the same conscious , you 're impatient for change , quite rightly , companies of course , have to keep their employees in an earning capacity , at the same time , er , move towards the position which you would like to them to do , and it may take a long time , but I accept your point , which is with some companies , then in fact , your clearly going to get attention of some kind . |
| 2 | I think it is just because his is too mild and wo n't make an effort to assert himself . |
| 3 | His is constantly pre-occupied with fitness , strength , and staying in peak condition . |
| 4 | Yet the argument that she sacrificed her art for his is as stupid as the argument about who influenced whom . |
| 5 | His is so top , go on just do it , go on you , you git |
| 6 | I 'll lend you my suitcase , yours is n't fit to be seen … . ’ |
| 7 | Kitchens can be cramped , steamy places to swing a camcorder in , and if yours is particularly small you may want to use a wide-angle adapter-lens of the kind which screws onto the front of the lens to increase the angle of view . |
| 8 | " It 's a pity that cousin of yours is so disagreeable . |
| 9 | Most skins can take a mild soap and water wash , unless yours is very dry and sensitive . |
| 10 | Yours is very trendy , but you can fit the side of your kitchen units . |
| 11 | ‘ I never forget a face , ’ said Jackie Tiptoe , ‘ and yours is definitely familiar . ’ |
| 12 | You do not tell me the depth of your pond , but shallow ponds ( if yours is indeed shallow ) are much more prone to algal infestation because they warm up so much more quickly and have such a large surface area in relation to volume . |
| 13 | Theirs is too soft . |
| 14 | By vulgar , racial accounting , she is primarily white and ‘ one quarter ’ black , and neither her cherubic , pink cheeks or pouty lips suggest much of her mother 's African ethnicity . |
| 15 | Like many women who have crashed through the glass ceiling — or , perhaps , ignored it — she is strongly opposed to positive discrimination in favour of women and has little time for the argument that women do n't succeed because they are women . |
| 16 | But here , where she WANTS to work , she is curiously cold-shouldered . |
| 17 | She is curiously slow with ‘ November ’ ( but so is Lisney ) ; otherwise , her touch is secure , whether in the long melodic span of ‘ October ’ or in the nimble rhythmic shifts of ‘ August ’ or the crisp contrasts of ‘ February ’ . |
| 18 | She is equally keen that they should have black role-models . |
| 19 | I was made sorry for her at first , as I would be for any young girl , crippled — it is hinted by the cruelty of her husband — and a mother , but even at the beginning there is a niggling doubt that she is rather superficial and shallow . |
| 20 | I think in her day people were more reserved , and she is rather proud . ’ |
| 21 | She is rather good at " doing " Jamaican vowels , except for the vowel of STRUT [ P3 ] , which always comes out as the LE version . |
| 22 | I suppose she is rather dreadful . |
| 23 | Genuinely considerate and sympathetic to others , she is rather disorganised in her day-to-day functioning but has learned to delegate attention to detail and accuracy while she focuses on broader , long-term objectives . |
| 24 | When she returns from theatre she is rather sleepy but is allowed to take fluids as soon as she feels able to sit up in bed . |
| 25 | The insider said : ‘ She is frighteningly different from the self-effacing person she used to be . |
| 26 | Miss LaMotte spoke more forcefully than I would have expected : she is surprisingly handsome when animated . |
| 27 | And she is engagingly old-fashioned in her concepts . |
| 28 | And she is engagingly old-fashioned in her concepts . |
| 29 | She is obviously very shocked , though she is physically well . |
| 30 | Danger to the policewoman in being asked to do duties for which she is physically unsuited ; |