Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is equally keen that they should have black role-models . |
| 2 | She is particularly worried that a freeze on public sector pay will cause outcry among doctors , nurses and hospital workers . |
| 3 | ‘ She is probably afraid that if Anthony likes you too much she will be excluded , ’ she said slowly through the pain . |
| 4 | She is also concerned that Amy is not putting on weight and that Keith disregards her . |
| 5 | She is also concerned that Amy is not putting on weight and that Keith disregards her . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's been having trouble with her periods , if you must know , ’ she says , imputing a prurient inquisitiveness to Vic , although she is well aware that such gynaecological disclosures are the last thing he wants , especially at this hour of the morning . |
| 7 | I have been over her story several times and she is quite positive that she saw Monsieur Erdle walking towards the belvedere at about half past nine , although she is unable to state the precise hour . |
| 8 | She is never sure that she is loved . |
| 9 | ‘ She is absolutely convinced that his death was not suicide . ’ |
| 10 | She is absolutely confident that she was privileged to witness a scene from the past in startling clarity that would continue to baffle her for ever . |
| 11 | She is maybe aware that this sounds sweet but a little ideologically uncool because she swiftly adds , ‘ It seemed like the ultimate — to make music together . ’ |
| 12 | Paula Yates , for instance , admits in an interview in Woman magazine that she is so thin that she had to put on weight before she could become pregnant . |
| 13 | will be out of the country from 3rd July – 24th August , she is very anxious that plans for even more new class launches in September should go ahead smoothly . |
| 14 | Perhaps in her company you fade psychologically — you are so used to believing that she is more attractive that you cease to believe in your own abilities . |
| 15 | It cuts the ground from under her , and depresses her , at a time when she is fully aware that she is no longer sexually desirable , but is trying to build a new and satisfying image as an elegant , wise , elderly woman who is still interesting as a person . |
| 16 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 17 | His desire to have me visit him is so strong that charity will not let me refuse . |
| 18 | But the virus that killed him is so lethal that once it 's in the lungs it kills one in three of its victims . |
| 19 | It is pretty certain that , in term of what adults mean by ‘ longer ’ the children do not really think that the pencil is longer ; but why do they say this ? |
| 20 | It is pretty certain that the watercourses which ran down down to the lake were pretty foul in those days , although , it is quite possible that excrement was utilised to a fair extent as a garden fertiliser . |
| 21 | It is pretty odd that whilst playing croquet they do not use ordinary equipment , instead they use flamingoes as their mallets and hedgehogs as their balls . |
| 22 | However , Washington is urging exiles to ‘ interest the media ’ , acknowledging privately that ‘ it is pretty clear that whatever we do will have no impact on the Banda government . ’ |
| 23 | It is pretty clear that while big business is being done in local area network hubs and routers , the market is very overcrowded , and in those circumstances , the outcome is usually that the rich get richer and the poor get taken over or go bust : observers reckon that in that context , the richest of the rich is Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , which did $340m in the year to last July and is estimated to have at least 45% of the market and maybe as much as 50% ; Wellfleet Communications Inc is thought to be number two , with anything from 12% to 20% , with 3Com Corp third at around 10% , but in the hub sector alone , SynOptics Communications Inc is thought to have about 33% and Cabletron Systems Inc 15% , although the latter says the two are neck and neck . |
| 24 | It is pretty clear that the reason Z fails in Z6 is that 6 is a composite integer . |
| 25 | It is pretty clear that Labour believes that it can not get a majority for those policies domestically and therefore wants to achieve a situation in which they can be imposed on us by a majority of continental countries . |
| 26 | If you let your eye rove over the map , it is pretty obvious that one of the new towns should be near the Channel Tunnel and another near the new Stansted Airport . |
| 27 | If you think about it , it is pretty unlikely that , if you yourself were reading a magazine , even if you looked quite hard at an ad , you could give a very detailed description of the ad even quite soon afterwards . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , with all their drawbacks , panels are interesting ways of collecting information and it is rather surprising that they have not been used more in academic research where ideas rather than pin-point accuracy of measurement may be the desired goal . |
| 29 | Actually , it is rather surprising that the labour cost has n't gone up more , especially in view of the national rates . |
| 30 | Given the revival of interest in local radio and the fact that this is occurring within a general context of economic and financial difficulty in the country as a whole , it is rather surprising that so little attention has been paid to the potential role of radio in contributing to local economic development . |