Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supreme masterpieces in this short-lived genre are Lassus 's posthumously published Lagrime di San Pietro . |
| 2 | ‘ Often , what 's perceived to be aggression is simply fear or nervousness , ’ Joanne added , recalling the first dog they rescued . |
| 3 | it must be daddy 's just done blue and yellow . |
| 4 | It will be Bingham 's greatest-ever triumph against the odds if his re-emerging team manage to put the brakes on Jack Charlton 's drive to the United States finals next year . |
| 5 | But the odds are Gerry 's merely run into something more interesting than usual , worth being late for supper . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The trouble is Jan 's so wound up and Santa Eulalia 's busier than I expected . ’ |
| 7 | An outcome such as 4 raises A's utility to and B's to Intuitively , what is happening is that A 's loss of utility from the reduction of her own income is being more than compensated for by the knowledge that B 's income is also falling . |
| 8 | I had a close look at the table last night — what really — ehh — scares me is Scum 's away form — in fact they are better away than at Old Scumford — even so they are just as good away as we are at HQ … yes they are vulnerable — but as they got points from the games vs us , Newcastle , Blacburn and Scousers recently i ca n't see what ( who ) is gon na crack them ? |
| 9 | Among the medical teams , a doctor who 's husband is already serving with the UN in Croatia . |
| 10 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 11 | Now it is of course always possible to substitute ( x ) Fx for ( Ex ) Fx , replacing the existential quantifier , that is , with a universal quantifier plus negation , but there is nothing much to be gained by such a swap , for to paraphrase the proposition that something is human by saying that it is not the case that everything is non-human is merely to beg the question . |
| 12 | el-Kefevi 's statement that Molla Edebali was mufti is implicitly justified by a passage in Taskopruzade concerning Edebali 's student and son-in-law , Molla Tursun Fakih , who , " after his [ Edebali " s ] death , took his place in the giving of fetvas and the planning of the affairs of government and the teaching of the sciences of the seriat " . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's the way I see it , ’ was Karen 's doggedly repeated bottom line , ‘ and nothing you say is going to make me change . ’ |
| 14 | On the landing the only sound was Jos 's deep snoring from the room next door . |
| 15 | For starters , there was Rourke 's well known problem with heroin which had always grated against Morrissey 's concept of the band being vegetarian , celibate and literary . |
| 16 | Bill Glazier was Palace 's aptly named and superb goalkeeper throughout most of our sojourn in Division Three , 1961–64 , and he was ever-present during our praiseworthy recovery under Dick Graham in the second half of 1962–63 , then in the magnificent promotion season of 1963–64 when the number of goals conceded was easily the lowest in our Division . |
| 17 | was Alice 's harshly grunting pursuer . |