Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] is [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though nothing came of this it is of interest because it anticipates the ‘ Cold War ’ methods by which Persia sought to infiltrate Greece in the second half of the century . |
| 2 | Much high praise has already come Mohicans ' way and it has done astounding US box-office business , but despite this it is on occasion a flawed film with a sometimes patchy pace and a structure that wobbles in the final 30 minutes . |
| 3 | But on the other hand , in doing this he is in danger of passing over altogether the notion of social ‘ repression ’ . |
| 4 | Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to . |
| 5 | So they stand cheerfully by the carriage window revealing in loud voices the personal secrets of the wretched traveller , who winces as he realizes that he has to travel two hundred miles with a carriage full of strangers who know his family history , how prone he is to chills if he wears a damp vest , what he has to do when he arrives at his destination . |
| 6 | ‘ I would like to have seen how brave he is with players like Ron Yates and Norman Hunter about . |
| 7 | Praying that the real me is in touch with the real God . |
| 8 | They seemed to be personal constructions arising from his knowledge of Greek or Latin roots , and proving how clever he is with words . |
| 9 | As such it is of benefit to the whole organism and all its genes . |
| 10 | It is surprising how easy it is for businessmen to assume that other nationalities will react in exactly the same way as they themselves do . |
| 11 | It is frightening how dependent upon drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills . |
| 12 | Kenneth Clarke appears above us , saying how sad it is about Chris Patten . |
| 13 | He knows these eagles very well and it is possible she is in pain … |
| 14 | And the fire actually started beyond the North Wall , just by the North Gate , but the wind was blowing from the North , and it blew it down , and although it did n't burn the rather better stone houses , facing onto St Aldate 's , erm behind I think a lot of the poorer houses did suffer , and St Ebbe 's parish , next door , suffered a great deal , and because it was war , I think they just , the city council , city records lament that there how hard it is for people , and there 's no money to help them . |
| 15 | These he is at pains to hide in order to promote the fiction of his rise from rags to riches . |
| 16 | Newcomers to night fishing are always surprised to find how cold it is at night , especially those few hours before and after dawn . |
| 17 | And now if with your wish we can certainly go ahead and make sure it is in tip top condition . |
| 18 | It was always assumed , as we will repeatedly find in these hooligan discourses , that ‘ the adolescent ’ was a boy : when the other sex figures at all it is as mothers , usually neglectful ones . |
| 19 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 20 | Generally , the bigger the fish , the less vulnerable it is to predation . |
| 21 | They obtain an expression for the stress as a function of time In this form , and at long-term equilibrium the material resembles one considered by Signiorini ( 1955 ) , whereas if A/2 + B = 0 it is of Mooney form and if A = B = 0 it is Rivlin 's neo-Hookean material . |
| 22 | An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage . |
| 23 | If teachers remain sceptical it is in part because many actors at all levels ( including the Secretary of State himself ) still think simply in terms of adding ( a ) to ( b ) and ( c ) without modifying the relations between them . |
| 24 | I can not stress enough how important it is for teachers to realise that because drama is such a powerful tool for helping people change , as teachers we need to be very sensitive to the emotional demands we make on our students . |
| 25 | But Making Out highlights how important it is for women to have a job and be with other women workers — often in very crummy circumstances , but actually being very resilient with a lot of humour and girl talk . |
| 26 | I can not over-emphasise how important it is for cyclists , that any barrier should allow enough room to pass through without dismounting . |
| 27 | At the level of parliament , the news media and opinion poll data , management of the national economy has been the dominant issue in British politics for much of the post-war period and however important it is for socialists to insist that ‘ the political ’ be given a broader definition , they can not afford to be silent on so important a concern . |
| 28 | That 's without mentioning how important it is for Suede to hurtle into people 's lives … |
| 29 | This goes back to what I was saying about the ‘ fellowship ’ of conferences and similar events and how important it is for people to enjoy themselves and make contacts . |
| 30 | The more important it is in sea water , the longer its residence time . |