Example sentences of "[is] [pers pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's me and a picture in front of me , and music from the radio if I need it , and no telephone . |
| 2 | So there 's me and a mate up a ladder with chain saws and that nearly all day yesterday , good fun actually . |
| 3 | And now his live-in lover Janette Simon has warned him : ‘ It 's me or the ghost . ’ |
| 4 | Choice of the insurer is yours and an existing policy can be considered , although in such cases it may require depositing with the bank as security . |
| 5 | ‘ America is all fucked up , ’ is his and the film 's opening line , which he utters in a sardonic drawl before indulging in a spot of simulated masturbation . |
| 6 | Whereas the idea is theirs and the producer is working in an advisory capacity , he or she almost certainly has greater technical knowledge and experience than the creative team and may well have to point out sequences which wo n't work and suggest modifications or changes . |
| 7 | This is fine , but clarify whether it 's you or the manufacturer that has to foot the bill for sending the machine back . |
| 8 | It is you and no other — and this will be repeated again and again — who can start to make the difference . |
| 9 | The fox is him and the forest is like his life and everything going on around him . |
| 10 | He said , ‘ It 's him or no one . |
| 11 | Their conclusions may be formulated as follows : if A conducts mining operations on his own land in such a way as to cause water to flood his neighbour 's mine and the inundation is due to mere gravitation , A is not liable ( or at least he is not strictly liable under Rylands v. Fletcher ) , but if the flooding is due to A 's accumulation of the water ( e.g . |
| 12 | And that 's it and the contracts had been signed and everything and it was |
| 13 | 6 Which is the bigger , unc or unc and how many times bigger is it than the smaller ? |
| 14 | But it needs to be borne in mind , before we embark on the various ways of doing this , that it is by no means a universally accepted need nor is it that every bereaved person with whom we come in contact will need ‘ help ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Why is it that every time you open that pretty little mouth of yours a viper speaks ? ’ he said angrily . |
| 16 | How is it that a large cavern with a high roof may be formed underground ? |
| 17 | Probing questions are asked : Why is it that a number of students , broadly successful across most of their subjects , have all done badly in … |
| 18 | Why is it that a specific person has the indefinable ‘ It ’ and another has not ? |
| 19 | Wittgenstein explicitly rejects what Locke and Brentano unquestioningly accept , namely that there is a perfectly proper epistemological question , ‘ How is it that a person can say what he himself believes , expects , hopes , and so on ? ’ to which the answer is that he must have observed in himself a mental operation , process , state , or whatever you like to call it , of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on . |
| 20 | How is it that a method which has failed elsewhere in relevantly similar circumstances suffices to yield knowledge this time ? |
| 21 | Again , this may explain that phenomenon which is central to the relevance of discourse analysis to language teaching : how is it that a student with an advanced proficiency in pronunciation , grammar , and lexis somehow fails to use these language skills to communicate successfully ? |
| 22 | Or is it that a book still has some special appeal in this electronic age ? |
| 23 | How much more likely is it that a professional boxer , for example , would suffer permanent bodily damage , than a kidney donor ? |
| 24 | Why is it that a cup of tea goes down so well ? |
| 25 | As often we are at the mercy of his laconic whim : why is it that no trust is involved ? |
| 26 | Why is it that no movement of spiritual renewal has ever lasted longer than the third generation ? |
| 27 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 28 | But why is it that the League 's longest-serving manager , the fan-bashing , clown-chasing old iconoclast at Nottingham Forest , has one of the best-behaved teams ? |
| 29 | Or is it that the sudden perception of one 's own constant vulnerability provides , in its black , clouded way , a dazzling , near-religious feeling of revelation — this is how things really are ; that to be born is , by definition , to be a victim ? |
| 30 | Or is it that the working class has shrunk to a level which means it can never put Labour into power ? |