Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you suspect yours is faulty you can ask your gas region to replace it . |
| 2 | You might wonder how pharmacists decipher a doctor 's scrawl but do n't worry that you 'll get the wrong drugs — a pharmacist will never dispense a prescription unless he or she is sure it is correct and will often ring the doctor . |
| 3 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 4 | ‘ Whenever she is tired I worry . |
| 5 | ( For example Manu the lawgiver recommended to Hindu society more than twelve centuries ago that ‘ the chief function of a woman is to give birth , nurse those who are born and attend daily duties ' or ‘ A girl must be married before she attains puberty and after she is married she must be kept busy looking after elders , cooking , cleaning , keeping accounts and saving money and of course doing Dharma ) . |
| 6 | She is afraid they may be displayed in court as evidence after they were stolen from a photographer . |
| 7 | She is afraid you are waking from her spell , casting it off . |
| 8 | She is glad he is going , she thinks . |
| 9 | If she is lucky she may find that at least a few children appreciate that ( 4 ) makes for a better drama game than ( 3 ) , and that ( 1 ) is so bland that it does n't feel like a game at all ! |
| 10 | But unless she is lucky she will also meet others who have opted for different solutions to the problem of how to be a teacher . |
| 11 | But I am bursting like an overstuffed sausage , and every thrust I make inside her is like I 'm seventeen slow inches long and growing with every stroke . |
| 12 | Under section 518 of the Companies Act 1985 if you are owed £750 or more by a company and it is overdue you can serve that company with a notice requesting payment within 21 days . |
| 13 | If the aggregate demand shock is positive , then real output will rise above its natural level ; if it is negative it will fall below it . |
| 14 | A pilot scheme is operating in the north-east of England and if it is successful it could be introduced to Ulster . |
| 15 | By the same token , if it is good you only have to wait five minutes and it will get worse . |
| 16 | For one thing , the attitudinist view escapes an objection to subjectivism made by Moore that if when I say an action is bad I report my negative feelings towards it , and when you say it is good you report your positive feelings towards it , then there is no disagreement between us ( since we will probably both agree that the other has the feelings he reports ) which Moore thought an absurdity . |
| 17 | If it is diatonic we may never need to modulate at all . |
| 18 | The East Germans have enough to think about without troubling themselves about tennis , but it is odd they do not have a single international player of note , bearing in mind the success of Czechoslovakia and the involvement of other Eastern bloc countries . |
| 19 | If they are a hit , to use a word perhaps not of the big band era , it is probable they will be booked monthly . |
| 20 | It is probable they will never go away now . |
| 21 | Accordingly , on 12 June 1940 Lord Woolton , Minister of Food , despatched a memorandum to the Food Policy Committee of the War Cabinet in which he identified three groups in the population to whom food distribution should be improved : workers in factories ( ‘ if we are to obtain the maximum production over a long period of time from them ’ ) , people on low incomes and ‘ children of school age and under and nursing mothers whom , on grounds both of humanity and of racial preservation , it is essential we should protect against malnutrition ’ . |
| 22 | One can look back in eighty seven when we had that terrible storm and they said well once in a hundred years and then we had a storm very similar I think it is essential we look |
| 23 | I will be surprised if more than two or three players will be able to perform to the standard required in a 42-match programme , so it is essential we have a strong squad . ’ |
| 24 | It is essential we address this in a very short time scale . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It is essential we catch the person who committed these serious crimes , ’ he said . |
| 26 | It is essential you are registered with a GP , who needs to have your latest address . |
| 27 | You will no doubt appreciate that letting property today is very complex and governed by so much legislation that it is essential you enjoy a competent Managing Agent . |
| 28 | It is essential you are registered with a GP , who needs to have your latest address . |
| 29 | He says ; Up and downstairs it is terrible I have to have two bars to pull me up and some people have to change to flats . |
| 30 | ‘ If it is alive we might be able to help . ’ |