Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But unfortunately I did remember afterwards , having erm berated myself for this that he is actually based in London at the |
| 2 | Although this might seem in one sense to be an unequivocal expression of deference , it becomes clear that it is purely conventional as soon as one imagines an Englishman acting in this way in the presence of his Queen . |
| 3 | The Bible is quite clear that it is always a mistake for a Christian to go out with a non-Christian . |
| 4 | It is clear that it is still campaigning to have licensed growth promotions reinstated for beef cattle . |
| 5 | Our amendments make it absolutely clear that it is only the deliberate promotion of homosexuality by local authorities that would be affected . |
| 6 | In fact the wording of the Act makes it clear that it is only as mothers that women are given priority in the public sector . |
| 7 | Hence , even when a referendum takes place in Britain , Parliament takes care to make it clear that it is only a " consultative " measure . |
| 8 | ‘ The time has come to make it clear that it is only where a taxpayer has established the existence of a profit-generating operation carried on by him outside Hong Kong that he can hope to escape the charge to profits tax imposed by section 14 . |
| 9 | Thus , although he does not enumerate a catalogue of rights it seems clear that it is chiefly the conventional political and civil liberties , including a right to freedom of conscience , that are associated with the traditional doctrine of liberalism which would qualify as rights in the strong sense . |
| 10 | However , it is not clear that it is substantially more humiliating and distressing than forced acts of oral sex or object penetration . |
| 11 | It is quite clear that it is too late to introduce new terms by reference to them on an invoice . |
| 12 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 13 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 14 | Or is it so high that it is too cool for crops to ripen ? |
| 15 | In historical time , the household formed the unit of work and the division between paid work and domestic work was less clear than it is to-day . |
| 16 | This was first flown in 1979 , but Bill found himself hanging upside down when the brakes seized on landing , and was reluctant to repeat this so it is now owned by Disney Industries , featuring in a recent film The Rocketeer . |
| 17 | Bermuda in the mid-30s was even more charming than it is now : motor cars were not allowed on the island and most residents travelled on bicycles , usually with a large wicker pannier between the handle-bars . |
| 18 | All of the theories have a view upon this although it is often not openly expressed . |
| 19 | Like most villages , Lund in past times was much more self-sufficient than it is now , with its own grocers , shoemakers , tailors and the like and , during the 19th century , a second public house , the Speed the Plough . |
| 20 | But it has never been easier than it is now |
| 21 | However , with regard to the hon. Gentleman 's request that we should lift sanctions , I am afraid that he is way out of line . |
| 22 | At high levels of recursion the pattern becomes quite elaborate , but you can easily see in Figure 2 that it is still produced by the same very simple branching rule . |
| 23 | But as it was accepted into this relatively formal literary genre , [ h ] -loss seems to have been much less overtly stigmatized than it is today . |
| 24 | An employee may prefer to do this if he is already paying the maximum 15 per cent cent in employee contributions ( including AVCs ) or to maximise tax-free cash . |
| 25 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 26 | But I thought also — this is not the first time I have fled for my life with this man , who is brave if he is also stupid . |
| 27 | She 's always telling me when I do things wrong and she is always right . ’ |
| 28 | Approaching this cosmology , it is natural for an outsider to suppose that the Chinese can think only concretely , after the analogies of breathing or the veins in jade ( a supposition encouraged by misunderstandings of Chinese script as a kind of picture-writing ) , while he thinks abstractly ; that the Chinese are wrong and he is right ( for is not the universe in fact composed of matter obeying the laws of nature ? ) ; that the Chinese are trapped within an unchanging conceptual scheme while he is free to go wherever reason bids . |
| 29 | First , non-response was high and it is now known that , as a category , non-respondents are often very different in a number of relevant respects from those who do respond . |
| 30 | To Rousseau , non-participatory institutions posed a threat to freedom — ; ‘ man is born free and he is everywhere in chains ’ . |