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 | His is just one example of the new enterprises supplying fish to shops or restaurants that cut out Billingsgate market ; for they also cut out the 25 per cent or so that trading through the market adds to the cost of fish . |
3 | I think it is just because his is too mild and wo n't make an effort to assert himself . |
4 | His is constantly pre-occupied with fitness , strength , and staying in peak condition . |
5 | Yet the argument that she sacrificed her art for his is as stupid as the argument about who influenced whom . |
6 | Paul is a lawyer other lawyers love to hate , but his is only one of a number of Yorkshire law firms that are sending a chill down the back of the London legal establishment . |
7 | His is so top , go on just do it , go on you , you git |
8 | I 'll lend you my suitcase , yours is n't fit to be seen … . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | " It 's a pity that cousin of yours is so disagreeable . |
11 | Most skins can take a mild soap and water wash , unless yours is very dry and sensitive . |
12 | Yours is very trendy , but you can fit the side of your kitchen units . |
13 | but yours is much nicer . |
14 | ‘ But yours is much better , Sister Dew , ’ said Sophia nobly . |
15 | ‘ I never forget a face , ’ said Jackie Tiptoe , ‘ and yours is definitely familiar . ’ |
16 | Yours is only nine at Dolgarrog . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Theirs is just one of eight compilations already in the top 10 . |
19 | Theirs is too soft . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | But here , where she WANTS to work , she is curiously cold-shouldered . |
23 | 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 ’ . |
24 | She is equally keen that they should have black role-models . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | I think in her day people were more reserved , and she is rather proud . ’ |
27 | She is rather good at " doing " Jamaican vowels , except for the vowel of STRUT [ P3 ] , which always comes out as the LE version . |
28 | I suppose she is rather dreadful . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |