Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [pers pn] is [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative approach which has a number of advantages over linear control systems , is the switching regulator , or as it is more usually known , the ‘ switch-mode power supply ’ . |
| 2 | Andrea Wallace , one of Britain 's top cross-country athletes and a mother of two , running in only her second marathon , believes that if she is still there at 20 miles , she has a chance of gaining a medal . |
| 3 | About all one can say is that while it is only too easy to make a weak material ( or indeed a material of no strength at all ) from strong chemical bonds , it is not possible to make very strong materials from weak bonds . |
| 4 | May I make the further suggestion that when it is all over on 9 April we get the right hon. Gentleman a new job — a walk-on part in a re-run of ’ Crossroads ’ or as a substitute for Ken Barlow . |
| 5 | Peter Davenport is now 60 years old , and although he is still very much in charge , he has begun to show signs of wanting to take things more easily . |
| 6 | His public pronouncements are unequivocal in this respect , and although it is clearly not possible to accept such public pronouncements as the definitive expression of a man 's innermost beliefs and convictions , and although it is also evidently the case that to be published in L'Humanite and Ce Soir inevitably necessitates obedience to the party line , nonetheless the consistency and vigour with which Nizan presented an entirely positive view of developments within the Soviet Union are an instructive antidote to those critics desperately searching for evidence of Nizan 's growing anti-Stalinism/anti-communism during this period . |
| 7 | Although it has recently become fashionable to subject judges to ( usually ill-informed ) public criticism , even in Parliament , and although it is no longer unknown for demands for the removal of judges to be voiced in the House of Commons ( as when Sir John Donaldson incurred opprobrium as President of the National Industrial Relations Court for applying the law which Parliament itself had passed ) Parliament has still , in modern times , to remove a judge in this manner . |
| 8 | His public pronouncements are unequivocal in this respect , and although it is clearly not possible to accept such public pronouncements as the definitive expression of a man 's innermost beliefs and convictions , and although it is also evidently the case that to be published in L'Humanite and Ce Soir inevitably necessitates obedience to the party line , nonetheless the consistency and vigour with which Nizan presented an entirely positive view of developments within the Soviet Union are an instructive antidote to those critics desperately searching for evidence of Nizan 's growing anti-Stalinism/anti-communism during this period . |
| 9 | I would wait a few weeks to see if it grows or clears up of its own accord and if it is still there , go to the vet . |
| 10 | If it is too readily switched off , we become underweight , and if it is too readily switched on , we become overweight . |
| 11 | When they are all put together under topic headings the full interview schedule will then tell us how long the interview is likely to take and if it is much too long some pruning can be undertaken at once . |
| 12 | Acyclovir has been developed and marketed by the Burroughs Wellcome company , and while it is certainly not an anti-viral panacea it is proving of definite benefit in the treatment of herpes virus infections . |
| 13 | ‘ Liberalism alone is the great Lady Surgeon of a nation 's maladies , and while she is temporarily abed with a broken limb , the nation is the sufferer ’ ( Ramsey in the Gownsman , 6 December 1924 ) . |
| 14 | The payment is said by the respondent not to have been ‘ voluntary ’ but ‘ forced ’ from it within the contemplation of the law … ‘ compulsion ’ in relation to a payment of which refund is sort , and whether it is also variously called ‘ coercion , ’ ‘ extortion , ’ ‘ exaction ’ or ‘ force , ’ includes every species of duress or conduct analogous to duress actual or threatened , exacted by or on behalf of the payee and applied to the person or the property or any right of the person who pays … . |
| 15 | However , as terraces are usually degraded and as it is usually extremely difficult to determine their precise limits , a degree of accuracy lower than that required for the long profiles of streams is permissible . |
| 16 | While the earliest sources give no clue to the date of Molla Fenari 's appointment to the Muftilik but simply state that he was Mufti , later Turkish tradition has asserted that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; and as it is almost universally held that Molla Fenari was the first Mufti , his appointment , if the tradition is to be believed , must have occurred after 824/1421 , the year of Murad II 's accession . |
| 17 | His introduction will be no walk-over but if he is half as good over fences as he was over hurdles , he should win . |
| 18 | When an Aplysia is tapped on the siphon , it withdraws its siphon and gills into its mantle chamber ; but if it is repeatedly so tapped , it ceases to respond . |
| 19 | When you leave , when you marry Ian , I shall try to go it alone , but if it is really too difficult then I 'll get an assistant who , maybe , will become a partner . |
| 20 | But because it is beside rather than in the Pyrenees , the Basque Coast has a gentler climate than you might expect , with an average temperature over the whole year of nearly 14° Centigrade — almost as good as you will find in Portugal . |
| 21 | The sun also exerts a force on the Earth , but because it is so much further away , its pull is only one quarter of that of the moon . |
| 22 | But since she is rather ostentatiously concealing it with her arm as she talks I imagine that it is in fact not homework at all , but a contribution to her mother 's Festschrift . |
| 23 | However , 160 supporters voted for Trevor Proby , but as he is no longer a member of the club those votes were declared void . |