Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] is [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christophe Deylaud has been encouraged to express himself and he is improving in heaps and bounds . |
| 2 | A weekly flow chart , showing day by day and hour by hour , who and what is coming into an old person 's home to provide care , is useful in illustrating the reality of community care . |
| 3 | Can anyone expect Mr. Kiechle to stand up and explain everything that he is looking for ? |
| 4 | As John Netherwood , who was in charge of publicity and sponsorship in 1964 , said : ‘ To get sponsors you have to tell everybody that it is going to be the biggest event that ever was , otherwise they wo n't put their money in . ’ |
| 5 | Accordingly , his introduction takes the form of a long conversation between himself and an old man , a Beggar , who approaches him while he is walking in the fields after a sleepless night at Chester 's Inn , where the clerks lived . |
| 6 | This was no great problem for Mr Berge ; being cocky and confident comes naturally to him whether he is presiding over his other little empire , the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house , or standing over a gaping hole in credibility . |
| 7 | The researcher has to have some idea of what he or she is looking for , even though the outcome may be unpredictable . |
| 8 | The growth of mail-order suppliers ( particularly for central heating ) and of do-it-yourself ‘ superstores ’ has made buying a less daunting task — no longer need the amateur feel embarrassed about not knowing exactly what he or she is looking for . |
| 9 | Or , does the scientist know first , what he or she is looking for , in order then , to select the information he or she needs . |
| 10 | We assume he or she is intending to : |
| 11 | A proxy may not vote at the same election for more than two people unless the proxy is a close relative ie husband , wife , parent , grandparent , brother , sister , child or grandchild of the people he or she is voting for . |
| 12 | When the honest shopper acts as I have just described , he or she is acting with the implied authority of the owner of the supermarket to take the goods from the shelf , put them in the trolley , take them to the checkpoint and there pay the correct price , at which moment the property in the goods will pass to the shopper for the first time . |
| 13 | Resorts to ridiculous tactics like sitting the interviewee on a small , armless chair opposite a window so that he or she is blinking in a stream of sunlight . |
| 14 | ( Incidentally , most bureau will buy in typefaces for clients so long as either the client pays for it or there is going to be sufficient volume of work to justify it . ) |
| 15 | The longer the ‘ chain of causality ’ , as Gunn calls it , the more likely it that there is going to be a weak link in the chain . |