Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would n't be as popular as she is today if I had n't guided her career . |
| 2 | Being a notable actress , she is just as compelling when the doubts have been sown : this Elsa , after singing a glorious , apparently contended Third Act duet with Völker 's sovereign Lohengrin , becomes appropriately disturbed and hysterical . |
| 3 | At the next session , will be chaired by Kay , and er , she will tell us what she is about as it were , erm , in a moment . |
| 4 | She is there when she says : ‘ I love to think how Joan Didion would hate Grace Paley ’ , because Paley is the good writer , in touch with life , that the posing Didion is not . |
| 5 | She should not and can not be sexually active in her natal family and hence is regarded while she is there as both benign and pure . |
| 6 | ‘ She confirmed what she has been attempting to gloss over in her bid to become deputy leader — that she is still as left wing as ever … a unilateralist in the mould of Tony Benn himself . |
| 7 | My mother I can hardly see save as she is now while I am writing . |
| 8 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 9 | From everything she says , it 's clear this gilgul 's been on the scene for quite a while — there is no way she could have learned what she 's learned , cleaned up her act and become who she is now if the only time she 's had to do it in was the brief interval between our confrontation at the Mephistco stand and her appearance on the beach at Bournemouth . |
| 10 | Their frustrations used to be articulated by Mrs Thatcher , but she is now as likely to be a cause of them as a cure . |
| 11 | Because any one of these two or three things that I show you is enough if it 's a surprise to them they will blow you out . |
| 12 | Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ . |
| 13 | It is rather as though there is a central axis , around which the gemstone of beauty is formed . |
| 14 | If J. A. Hobson was justified in speaking of a ‘ crisis of Liberalism ’ in 1909 , it is equally if not more justified to think of the Edwardian period in terms of a ‘ crisis of Conservatism ’ . |
| 15 | It is equally if not more striking that these remarks about mania in the individual manic-depressive of modern times hold perfectly true for the cultural equivalent : the first cultivating societies . |
| 16 | It is simply because most diets involve immense change in eating habits and usually some degree of hunger ; they are too difficult for most people to maintain long enough to become slim . |
| 17 | ‘ That is no accident , it is simply because the market does not test the currency , ’ said one observer . |
| 18 | It is simply because we are fitter and tougher , harder and stronger , that we come on top on so many occasions . |
| 19 | It is simply because , if there is such true consent , the essential element of dishonesty is not established . |
| 20 | It would be wrong to conclude that it is simply because women live longer than men . |
| 21 | ‘ But it was never taken up because it is slower because of its weight and size . ’ |
| 22 | It is past before it has scarce begun . |
| 23 | This is particularly so in the UK where the social class implications of accent , furnishings and behaviour are so complex that it is rarely if ever possible to produce a domestic situation which is really widely acceptable , in the fullest sense of the word . |
| 24 | It is presumably because of this innate variability of habitat that there are so many species of organism on land : probably anything between 10 and 70 or more million , compared with maybe only a few hundred thousand in the oceans . |
| 25 | Can it possibly be that , while there is the situation in such a case , it is otherwise if the lessee has failed to get rid of the subterm until after a notice is served ? |
| 26 | The answer to those questions may be said to depend on whether it is generally as serious to obtain sex by deception as it is by other means ( threats , force , fear ) . |
| 27 | Because the procedure can not apply to development already started and it is generally as quick to apply for actual permission if the planning authority 's officer advises that it is necessary , this does not get as much use as might be expected . |
| 28 | It is particularly because of their potential when evaluating activities that objectives should be measurable . |
| 29 | Yet in a country where the pull of the past is so strong and the future so tantalising , it is best when you are travelling to live exclusively in the present . |
| 30 | It is best if lead training is started quite young so that , as an older puppy , it will freely accept a check chain when it is placed around its neck . |