Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some women ca n't make it last the week so theirs is kept in the office . |
| 2 | Only she is feeling desperately homesick . |
| 3 | Perhaps she is Swinging . " |
| 4 | Perhaps she is getting bored , ’ said Breeze , and read on . |
| 5 | Perhaps she is going to turn into a quietly spoken , normal human being . |
| 6 | In doing so she is reviving the ‘ great divide ’ theory that has been so discredited by social anthropologists and sociolinguists . |
| 7 | so she is coming |
| 8 | Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days . |
| 9 | It is not possible to predict the types of security interests that will be created in the future and requiring registration of some such unforeseen interests could be unnecessarily burdensome ; even with respect to the known types of legal charge , particularly those conferring the right to possession , it would produce overkill ; and lastly it is claimed that to require the registration of all charges could dry up certain types of secured borrowing . |
| 10 | Suddenly he is suspended in the air , between two whirring propellers . |
| 11 | ‘ Then suddenly he is thrown to the wolves with the stigma of being incompetent , no good — even a fool . |
| 12 | Can I direct the hon. Gentleman 's attention to the Islington crime survey , which gives rather different evidence about how much crime is being committed and how much it is rising ? |
| 13 | And ‘ however much it is abused , it seems to work well ’ , said one participant at the Liverpool meeting of dentists last week . |
| 14 | Can you tell me how much it is to get in Elland Road these days , I would also give you petrol money . |
| 15 | Switching the cabinet voicing off , you realise just how much it is working to condition the sound ready for tape ; because without it , you are straight back to the two gnats in a bottle sound , beloved of direct outputs on many amps . |
| 16 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB is to buy the remaining 28% equity it does not already own in its Teleindustria Ericsson SA in Mexico but does not say how much it is offering : the shares are held by Mexican and foreign institutional investors , as well as by individual minorities . |
| 17 | The Government-funded Housing Corporation will reveal how much it is giving about 70 housing associations in the region . |
| 18 | ( The BBC refuses to say how much it is spending on Artrageous ! . ) |
| 19 | Once you have decided what the extra staffing and other requirements are in respect of the two conferences , you can work out how much it is going to cost to accommodate them . |
| 20 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 21 | Most players like to have some relief but they know with him that no matter how much he is hurting he will go on . ’ |
| 22 | Apparently it is laid down as is but they 're all saying are because they thing it 's telephones are , not use is |
| 23 | Apparently it is going outside . |
| 24 | Apparently it is considered ill-bred in the extreme to speak Welsh in front of English people who do n't understand it . |
| 25 | Before long he is involved , through loyalty to a Spanish relative , in the vexed affairs of old Don Baltasar , whose seaboard estate is being used as a refuge for pirates secretly commanded by James O'Brien , a villain with a front as a respected official in the Jamaican government . |
| 26 | One of them is enclosed in the letters written by the same ship , another bill is sent overland to the factor or party to whom the goods are consigned , the third remaineth with the merchant , for his testimony against the master , if there were any occasion for loose dealing ; but especially it is kept for to serve in case of loss , to recover the value of the goods of the assurors that have undertaken to bear the adventure with you . |
| 27 | This minimum is the optimum ; expenditure above or below it is deemed wasteful for society as a whole ( de Nevers , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | The Court concluded , rightly it is submitted , that the mere fact that the defendant happens to have committed another offence in addition to the one with which he has been charged should not preclude a conviction . |
| 29 | Annually it is estimated that approximately 75 per cent of those aged 65 and over will visit their family doctor . |
| 30 | In Britain alone it is estimated that in excess of 150,000 people die every year from heart attacks and strokes . |