It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

The five exhausted runners crossed the finish line one after the other.

I sipped the coffee, tasted copper and dishwater and something vaguely javalike […]

Miss Griffin was a model of propriety, and I am at a loss to imagine what the feelings of the virtuous woman would have been, if she had known, when she paraded us down the Hampstead Road two and two, that she was walking with a stately step at the head of Polygamy and Mahomedanism.