Example sentences of "is [adj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collegians had a great season last time out , but coach Brian Carruth 's entire forward line is pregnant which means early chances for some of the Second XI who won the All Ireland Costley Cup . |
| 2 | If it is dry they evolve leathery or waxy waterproof skins to conserve what little water there is . |
| 3 | On Hewitt 's account , it is Creole which carries the symbolic values of ethnicity and culture , for both its black and white speakers , while the " multi-racial vernacular " serves as a common community language , the " ordinary English " of the symbolic " Creole " / " ordinary English " dichotomy . |
| 4 | thyropentone sodium , where they can assess the effect because they have n't paralysed the person yet , when the person stops responding and is asleep they press the button for Anaesthetized , and then the machine logs the differences between the brain activity between the two . |
| 5 | If the goods are described to you as seconds , shopsoiled , slightly imperfect , if any phrase like that is used I think your own commonsense should tell you there 's something wrong with these goods and that presumably is the reason why they 're reduced in price . |
| 6 | As the Wasp Junior is supercharged you do not just push the lever to the stop for fear of bursting it , so I relied on Tony to limit the movement of my left hand , revelling in the swelling thunder of the fifteen-litre engine and the surging acceleration as the nose reared under its power . |
| 7 | Once the task is complete we return to Fort George and drop off the RUC . |
| 8 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 9 | Once your classroom and cockpit introduction to the TBM 700 is complete you find yourself studying two different aircraft . |
| 10 | Any number of combinations is possible which enables some nurses with domestic responsibilities to contribute to the care of patients who would otherwise be unemployed . |
| 11 | It is possible they dropped onto the Yorkshire coast after migrating from somewhere south of Britain for no flock of this size has been seen anywhere in the country through the winter . |
| 12 | ‘ It is possible they operate individually but are connected by having the same contacts , for instance a dealer in Essex or Ireland , ’ said Det Sgt Elston . |
| 13 | I ca n't claim it is original because I stole the idea from Dan Dailey in Mother Wore Tights , although it is possible I do it better than him now . |
| 14 | It is possible he has unwittingly done something more subversive : totally demystified chess . |
| 15 | I suppose it is possible he has formed an affection for some boy , " she conceded . |
| 16 | Change is possible it argued , citing Copenhagen , Hannover , The Hague and Odense , all of which display rising use of public transport and cycles and falling car use as a result of their transport policies . |
| 17 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 18 | As it stands the districts seem to be wanting their cake and eat it in that they would like er a policy restricting development in the open countryside but they do n't want it to come with baggage that is specific which says what the exceptions should be . |
| 19 | And so she looked up , she said , that is right she said , alright , and er he prescribed some more water pills . |
| 20 | Nothing down here we want cat food , lard and Ryvita Ryvita will be down the bottom here , I suppose and lard is right she wants brown Ryvita quickly . |
| 21 | When I went to what was in effect not merely the memorial of the fifty aft after fifty two years of the people , but of course really the funeral service of the pit and when I went to that here was the chance to dedicate that also , we did it actually at the Memorial Garden where all the pit people are buried and that is right you see , picking up out of the past not sticking in the past , and arranging it as you might say as in that banner to move on into the future . |
| 22 | The East Germans have enough to think about without troubling themselves about tennis , but it is odd they do not have a single international player of note , bearing in mind the success of Czechoslovakia and the involvement of other Eastern bloc countries . |
| 23 | ‘ They say every man has his double and it is conceivable they made a mistake , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ Each parcel 's reference is different which cuts down on mistakes . ’ |
| 25 | and had one on New Year 's Eve or Christmas Eve or something , they came in , a couple were passing , well they were only on holidays and they were looking , well our house is different I mean |
| 26 | As the sea is calm I turn in to a narrow cleft on the headland , cutting the engine and gliding in between the faces of grey rock to let my passengers get the flavour of the sights and sounds of a Shetland geo . |
| 27 | But he is afraid he have to correct Mr Browne on a matter of geography : the British troops were not waiting for war in the Kuwaiti desert ; that was the Iraqi troops . |
| 28 | If they feel that the committee is erring they have a duty to intervene and point out what they think is the best course . |
| 29 | When society 's going well , then it gives you something to rebel against , but if life is crap you 've got to look after yourself and the people around you in order to survive . ’ |
| 30 | Spoken language is spontaneous which results in hesitations ( errm , um ) and false starts , and a grammatical structure can be cut-off in mid-production and replaced by another ( Hindle , 1983a ) . |