Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say she is on borrowed time , ’ someone else said . |
| 2 | If the law were changed in the way we suggest it is at least possible that such men would prefer to seek relations with older persons which would not render them liable to prosecution . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect it is on its way , ’ said the Thing calmly . |
| 4 | Legal experts say it is worth protecting cheques until the new laws come in by making the alterations . |
| 5 | Leading business figures , like the chairman of Sony , Akio Morita , say it is in fact time for companies to show more consideration for their employees , shareholders and local communities . |
| 6 | In the first place it is to be accepted that it is made in wide terms though it is not said that they are so imprecise that there is a doubt as to what is covered by the order . |
| 7 | Since the Vendor will have entered into the relevant contracts in the first place it is for the Vendor to take the risk as saying whether or not the contracts fall within these categories . |
| 8 | Many French politicians take for granted a Europe in which France shares a lead ; they sense it is at risk . |
| 9 | I sense it is within a kilometre of the castle . |
| 10 | In trusting God we are living out our assumptions , putting into practice all that we say he is in theory , so that who God is and what he has done can make the difference in every part of our lives . |
| 11 | Despite the tough measures of May 10th , the opinion polls say he is by far France 's favourite politician . |
| 12 | if the lists have minimal pairs you can have the LH say one word at a time and you will have to decide which list it is from |
| 13 | The group finds that , for a given jet energy , the transverse momentum is always larger for the jet with lowest energy thin it is for the other two . |
| 14 | I fear she is beyond my help , now . |
| 15 | ‘ We suspect he is in France at our embassy . ’ |
| 16 | For a good lively read it is worth dipping into The Whitbread Rugby World ‘ 90 . |
| 17 | Even if you are running an existing home accounts package it is worth having a look at this one , I feel confident that you will want to change . |
| 18 | '' It is as if we have to be deeply conscious of our need and eager for God 's promised blessings . |
| 19 | Some of us think the power they give us is worth clinging on to through plastic surgery |
| 20 | They also did their best to lose the great dome in a jostling scrum of office buildings , so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce . |
| 21 | ‘ I would like to do something to help like bringing her home but I know she is in the best place . ’ |
| 22 | The upshot of this is that in this sense of " power " as of many like terms-it is at least arguable not only that a cause has a power to produce its effect , but also that an effect has a power to produce its cause . |
| 23 | I know it is with me , er , with Dad 's Army , so er , if they 're getting huge ratings with those repeats , well , they 're obviously gon na put them on are n't they ? |
| 24 | As both W. G. Hoskins and W. E. Tate have shown , the English village as we know it is in its essentials a product of developments not much less recent than the growth of industrial towns and cities . |
| 25 | The sensible ones know it is in their interest to do so as well . ’ |
| 26 | For the briefest second I wonder why my Thomas the Tank Engine mobile has been taken down , but assume it is to be re-positioned to make room for the present . |
| 27 | And , though I believe she is at heart a sensible girl , she might be driven to do something silly . |
| 28 | My son has only just reached his majority , and I understand he is in no immediate financial need . |
| 29 | In this passage the Wordsworthian echoes of subject-matter and vocabulary are remarkable , though I suppose it is worth pointing out that Virginia Woolf was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen , an ‘ agnostic mountaineer ’ whose interests owed a great deal to the reading of Wordsworth . |
| 30 | Well I suppose it is with shoes on . |