Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vancouver in n it ? |
| 2 | Cos it 's Friday in n it ? |
| 3 | It 's football , as a rule , on a Friday in n it ? |
| 4 | Friday in n it ? |
| 5 | Something like that , so I said well that 's a good job I 'm going this Saturday in n it really ? |
| 6 | I 've heard of Moor View , that 's in Chuddley in n it , Moor View ? |
| 7 | It 's all very confusing Jean in n it ? |
| 8 | It 's difficult Pat in n it ? |
| 9 | I thought it was blooming escudos , yeah it is Portugal in n it ? |
| 10 | Later the trade unions Turk-Is and the Genel Maden-Is challenged the version of events which referred to a sudden surge in the level of methane gas and said that human negligence was probably responsible . |
| 11 | From Cullen , where they got a fresh chaise ‘ and very good horses ’ , to Elgin is a distance of about twenty-five miles , through whiskified Speyside . |
| 12 | After a leisurely breakfast accompanied by the Sunday papers , perhaps you 'd like to discover the local beauty spots of which Royal Deeside is justifiably proud . |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside is brandishing a document that he sent to me , but he refused my offer to come to see me . |
| 14 | In a Napoleon he can not discover anybody to be ; a Napoleon is a projected , dreamed-up , aimed-at type , a ‘ generalhuman ’ . |
| 15 | Porfiry means that he does n't really believe in his theory ; to wonder if he is a Napoleon is to prove to himself that he is n't . |
| 16 | A Napoleon is a non-person , a ‘ generalhuman ’ ; and although the word does n't appear in Crime and Punishment itself , the notebooks make the point that one ca n't just live ‘ the general life of humanity ’ . |
| 17 | Napoleon himself had plenty to do , but a Napoleon is a member of a conceptual class of people who are like each other ; and likeness , the ‘ unseemly likeness ’ of The Double , is fraught throughout Dostoevsky . |
| 18 | Napoleon is supposed to have said ‘ An army marches on its stomach . ’ |
| 19 | Napoleon is meant to have said that an army marches on its stomach . |
| 20 | Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps we 're all wrong about Mons. Perhaps Napoleon is just swinging open the front doors and ignoring the back gate . ’ |
| 22 | He did write on an engraving , however : ‘ Napoleon is happy anywhere ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Napoleon 's stolen a march on us . |
| 24 | Dolores and her father were already at the table , and her two brothers were just washing their hands in the kitchen with young Pablo the fisherman who was Lina 's intended . |
| 25 | ( A conviction under section 24 of the EPA is punishable on summary conviction to a fine of currently £2000 or on indictment to an unlimited fine . ) |
| 26 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 27 | The EPA is within the jurisdiction of the Fish and Wildlife Service and is an agency of the Interior Department . |
| 28 | The pesticide is most frequently used on these crops , and the EPA is seeking to ban it from these also . |
| 29 | I think I understand a little better what Hockney is getting at with his ‘ reverse perspective ’ , though that seems a perverse way of describing ( I think ) an immersion in his subject matter . |
| 30 | Punning is the occult logic of language best left aside by those concerned to grasp its evolution . |