Example sentences of "is [pron] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing underhand or suspicious about this . |
| 2 | The so-called primitive accumulation … is nothing else than the historical process of divorcing the producer from the means of production . |
| 3 | In his view , then , the functionalist approach to inequality is nothing else than an ideology designed to legitimate this same inequality . |
| 4 | I can not choose something as an end simply because a wiser man tells me I would want it if I understood myself better , because I can not choose ends at all by inferring from facts about my inclinations ; the choice of an end is nothing else but the spontaneous settling of inclination in one direction or other , and the honest or self-deceiving interpretation of its goal . |
| 5 | I insist upon conquering the wills of children betimes ; because this is the only foundation for a religious education … religion is nothing else but the doing the will of God , and not our own … |
| 6 | In French literature lectures , Sartre became more than an academic discovery , though I understand only now why the idea that " the person is nothing else but his freedom " and the revelations of Nausea had such enormous appeal for me . |
| 7 | Yes , there are a few , e.g. a two-wire transmission line which is nothing else but two parallel wires carrying opposite currents . |
| 8 | An act done at the request of the offeror in response to his promise is consideration ; and consideration in its essence is nothing else but response to such a request . |
| 9 | There is nothing here that a good social worker with families , for example , would not know about . |
| 10 | In any case , there is nothing here that would be thought of value in the shining land beyond the golden river of Frith . |
| 11 | There is nothing beyond but the hills , and mountains in the far west ; and the beasts . ’ |
| 12 | Follow me , for I am the core and the centre , and there is nothing now but the music … |
| 13 | A pair of binoculars is nothing more than two small refractors joined together . |
| 14 | This is clearly a mistake for 1.21 a.m. which is itself earlier than the time stated by the inspector . |
| 15 | Yeah but at the end of the day is she is she better or worse than ? |
| 16 | Then , the neat little white pots , the crust of yellow butter , there is something fundamentally and uniquely English in the picture evoked by Major Connolly . |
| 17 | ‘ There is something here that smells bad . ’ |
| 18 | Now the same classes of people believe there is something here and they are trying to chase us out again . |
| 19 | All of a sudden , the Government run some campaign to highlight to such people that there is something else that they can claim . |
| 20 | Of course , there is always the milkman : one of society 's front-line social workers , who has saved the lives of countless elderly people by noticing that there is something amiss and alerting neighbours or the police . |
| 21 | The only thing I like about him is the feeling that there is something there that could be used for good if it could be got at . |
| 22 | She says ; It is something there that I can see of her , something I would not have had if she had not existed . |
| 23 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 24 | When you 've got two numbers that are both , all pluses , four and two is six , four and one is five , four and nothing is four , four and minus one means you got plus four minus one , is one less than four , it 's three . |
| 25 | Well we do n't want no all we want is one so that at the end we want from each group to go to another group to be marked . |
| 26 | Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above . |
| 27 | you know is there somewhere that I can get the subjects that I need in , in each |
| 28 | By the way , is there somewhere where I can freshen up ? ’ |
| 29 | Yeah is there anywhere that it can be put away when the children are not there ? |
| 30 | Is there more than one type of cholesterol — a ‘ good guy ’ and a ‘ bad guy ’ ? |