Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're wet and shivering as it is . |
| 2 | So measures of poor welfare include finding that , because of the way an animal is kept or treated , it is not able to live as long or finding that it is not able to grow or is not able to breed . |
| 3 | Any visual task is rendered more difficult and fatiguing if it is undertaken in poor lighting . |
| 4 | The world is a Persian carpet , then , and we are ants lumbering from one thread to the other and observing that there is no pattern in the colours . |
| 5 | Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too . |
| 6 | Everybody hates a bad leaver but , whereas in the West you can usually close the door on a guest who has finally reached the garden gate , in the islands it is impolite to stop waving and chanting until he is either round a corner and out of sight , or else too distant to be able to see the whites of his eyes . |
| 7 | Two or three months after that he 's got a new product out they 're trying to keep it slightly quiet and saying that it 's not a world beater and sort of er go back to their more in innovative . |