Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] is [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty encountered by plaintiffs in obtaining injunctions to stop libels has led to a growth in applications for injunctions on the grounds of breach of confidence , ie that the information has been obtained from someone who is under a duty not to reveal it . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 'd have to look at somebody who is in a similar position to him , who is still around , to try and figure that out . |
| 3 | Thus Britain has committed heavy expenditures to just those areas in which she is at a massive comparative disadvantage against the USA . |
| 4 | I would now like to turn my attention to something which is in a sense a mirror image of what we have been considering . |
| 5 | Portes argues , from research in Santiago , that marginal man is really one who is in a state of transition ( Portes 1970 ) . |
| 6 | Well , let me tell you , you 'll know which one it is in a second — I went back , obviously years later , and I was having my beer and I finally had to go to the loo and I went into the ladies ' room and there was a big sign saying ‘ Elizabeth Taylor sat here ’ . |
| 7 | I mean I think that 's extremely important to allow children to erm you know play things out in the best way that they which is in a sense their way of coming to terms with things erm and to answer their questions as honestly as I can and to admit it when I do n't know the answers erm and also , I mean in our family we 've taken various actions to try to stop the war and we 've , you know , taken part in demonstrations and written letters and erm |
| 8 | People told me it is like a period pain , and to start with it was very like a period pain . |
| 9 | To me it is like a miracle . |
| 10 | It may seem absurd to talk in such terms of snooker , or David Jason , or Gold Blend commercials , but much of what there is of a British national culture consists of ( or is mediated through ) broadcasting . |
| 11 | He will almost always be in the life you describe what he is as a literary concept , a private investigator , a man with all the freedom of action of the amateur detective of old ( see how the blueprint formula still has its influence ) but who uses it actively . |
| 12 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 13 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 14 | Consider Hart 's account of what it is for a social rule to exist and his distinction between the internal and the external points of view . |
| 15 | The concept of women 's standpoint also provides an interpretation of what it is for a theory to be comprehensive . |
| 16 | Jean Grimshaw looks at some of the ways in which feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be autonomous , and the relationship between these conceptions and philosophical ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 17 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 18 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 19 | Discussion of justification , of what it is for a belief to be justified , begins with this theory ; other theories will be described in terms of their relation to or divergence from this one . |
| 20 | In fact , this means that our answer will amount to an account of what it is for a non-observation statement to be significant , and what it is that makes one such statement mean something different from what another one means . |
| 21 | VP is about what it is for a sentence to be significant rather than meaningless , while MP is about what it is for a sentence to have one meaning rather than another . |
| 22 | VP is about what it is for a sentence to be significant rather than meaningless , while MP is about what it is for a sentence to have one meaning rather than another . |
| 23 | My first truism is the one Aristotle used to say what it is for a statement to be true or false : ‘ To say of what is , that it is not , or of what is not , that it is , is false ; while to say of what is , that it is , or of what is not , that it is not , is true . ’ |
| 24 | This evolutionary argument asks what it is about a feature that improves the animal 's chances of surviving and reproducing itself . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course I 've got a plan , and you 'll see what it is in a few moments , if you 're too stupid to guess before that — ’ They swung round a bend and he swore suddenly and loudly . |
| 26 | We do not yet know what it is in a homoeopathic potency that has a curative action , nor do we know how homoeopathic remedies work in the body any more than we know the mechanisms of action of many of the conventional drugs used in medicine . |
| 27 | She continues to say that there is one kind she does not like and that she is going to convey what it is by a process of thought transfer . |