Example sentences of "is [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen how ‘ the street ’ and ‘ the city ’ played important roles in middle-class demonology , so it is easy to understand why youth workers sought to provide counter-attractions to them , believing as they did that ‘ there is nothing worth doing to be done there ’ . |
| 2 | As you say , this is nothing but fancy dress dancing at the Palais . ’ |
| 3 | Breakfast is nothing like reading a comic . |
| 4 | I gave a good class : there is nothing like teaching well for making one forget oneself and one 's petty troubles . |
| 5 | Marijuana is nothing like taking heroin , smack , whatever , it 's nothing like it ! |
| 6 | There is nothing like having ignorance with the maximum of precision . |
| 7 | THE Prince of Wales brought laughter from international hoteliers by telling them : ‘ There is nothing like having a good pair of Bristols . ’ |
| 8 | There is nothing like sitting out on a trapeze on a windy day , getting completely soaked by each new wave to make you feel cleansed of the city grime . |
| 9 | There is nothing like putting off the chore to send you diving to the cookie jar ! |
| 10 | Intellectual conviction is nothing like feeling at gut level . |
| 11 | There is plenty of shipping in the Crouch . |
| 12 | Remember which is which by bearing in mind that aka , like red , has three letters while shiro , like white , has five . |
| 13 | Decision makers should satisfy themselves that current practice is itself worth having before using it as a comparison for a new treatment . |
| 14 | I thought myself , there 's her mother wandering about , is she off galavanting with Dave , where the hell she gone . |
| 15 | Competency you 're looking at your receptionist now , because you 've identified the key tasks you might say well what 's the standard on these things , how good is she at passing on messages etcetera ? |
| 16 | Anyway , all I can remember is something about turning the other cheek which I do n't believe in . |
| 17 | And the reason murder is a virtual necessity in the detective story is that , in an essentially frivolous sort of book , it gives the reader a paradoxical feeling that here is something worth reading about . |
| 18 | They feel the fighting is justified because their religion is something worth supporting and fighting for because if everybody just accepted what the other said then no-one would have the right to choose and end up with a dictatorship where one person is saying what they believe in and nobody fights back so everybody would end up having to agree . |
| 19 | Perhaps most of all , it needs staying power , realism and a belief that it is something worth working for . |
| 20 | But they might be drawn to the sound of a group of females socialising — think that this is something worth investigating — and help us to lure them out again . ’ |
| 21 | I think the oldest one we 've got is something like got us a Roman coin , they . |
| 22 | Bearing in mind that the meaning of imagine is something like construct a mental image without solid evidence , consider : ( 75 ) ( 76 ) ( 75 ) gives a single ( complex ) element as subordinate to imagine ; consequently her is subjected to all the aspects of imagine just as much as red-haired . |
| 23 | It is something like ripping off a plaster . |
| 24 | This is one for drinking with fish or as an appetiser . |
| 25 | Now modal tag is one for seeking agreement whereas an effective tag is one that shows concern to the addressee and according to this study , if you looked and the sheer number of tags , women did use more tags than men , but in actual fact women used a higher proportion of the effective tags than men did . |
| 26 | A simple series of steps to establish if the situation is one with built in conflict is as follows : |
| 27 | What hope is there of saying anything about a whole work , if each small sentence deserves to be scrutinized in this way ? " |
| 28 | What harm is there in trying to achieve better value for money and more choice for the consumer by more competition — always giving an assurance , which I repeat today , that we will ensure that the uniform tariff structure remains in being even in rural areas ? |
| 29 | Appraisal is therefore not about identifying individuals for financial reward or promotion nor is it about penalising ‘ poor ’ performance — they are separate management processes . |
| 30 | Neither is it about performing actions slowly . |