Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] is [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be that your lack of confidence concerns home life ; perhaps you hate people coming to see you because your home is not beautiful — or perhaps it is never tidy . |
| 2 | 1 ( 1 ) This section applies in any case where — ( a ) a tenancy includes a covenant on the part of the tenant not to enter into one or more of the following transactions , that is — ( i ) assigning , ( ii ) underletting , ( iii ) charging , or ( iv ) parting with the possession of , the premises comprised in the tenancy or any part of the premises without the consent of the landlord or some other person , but ( b ) the covenant is subject to the qualification that the consent is not to be unreasonably withheld ( whether or not it is also subject to any other qualification ) . |
| 3 | Much more tricky than knowing if you 've found a badger sett , is knowing whether or not it is still active . |
| 4 | Only if you understand what the clause is supposed to do , can you assess whether or not it is terribly important to your side and negotiate accordingly . |
| 5 | The dance constitutes a rudimentary system of communication , whether or not it is entirely instinctual , entirely learned or the result of a mixture of the two strategies . |
| 6 | The emphasis here is on education and recreation , so it is bound to make some people ask whether or not it is too soft for criminals . |
| 7 | The emphasis here is on education and recreation , so it is bound to make some people ask whether or not it is too soft for criminals . |
| 8 | If people believe something to be true , then its consequences are the same , whether or not it is actually true . |
| 9 | Or else she is so indifferent to the feelings of other people that she simply shrugs her well-fleshed shoulders and does n't give a damn who she hurts in her pursuit of thrills . |
| 10 | Therefore , before Tamburlaine arrives , there has been no-one to really challenge his authority and supremacy , and so he is justifiably confident and arrogant about the forthcoming battle . |
| 11 | I think he allows her considerable freedom over her — her weakness , you know , and so she is quite content to work for him whatever the village may say of him , and they do , to be sure , say some very foolish things . |
| 12 | The implication of all this is that large numbers of firms are unnecessary to achieve economic efficiency , and so it is equally possible for oligopolies to attain an efficient allocation of resources . |
| 13 | Neither optical nor radio signals have been detected from the companion , and so it is also likely to be a compact star . |
| 14 | The NVC is intended to provide a national standard for describing vegetation , in much the same way as a national Flora describes the species , and so it is clearly desirable to refer to the NVC in local Floras . |
| 15 | In the process of this the Commission has to work closely with national governments , and so it is clearly desirable that domestic and EC law should be mutually consistent . |
| 16 | In the US explicit collusion is , with a few exceptions , per se illegal , and so it is simply necessary in a given case to establish whether or not collusion has existed . |
| 17 | Blood sugar levels and nutritional requirements do fluctuate , and so it is particularly important to be aware of what is occurring and to be educated to the point where you know how to treat your body at any given time of the month . |
| 18 | While you can get away with using small aquaria to breed these fish in , provided all other parameters are correct , problems will soon occur and so it is always good practice to start out as you mean to go on . |
| 19 | At present re-entry programmes range from three evenings to six months ' day release plus supervised practice , and so it is virtually impossible to list every variation on the theme here . |
| 20 | The profits from Jimmy Campbell 's cleverly-titled book about the Blackpool he has known for more than 45 years will go to the RNLI , and so it is perhaps appropriate that the very first chapter looks at the well-known Bickerstaffe family . |
| 21 | How they actually manage it is not revealed and so it is highly suitable for family viewing . |
| 22 | It is a large country with a small population and so it is very easy to get lost . |
| 23 | The British population of some 52,000 is 65 per cent of the world population and so it is very important that these numbers are protected . |
| 24 | Pure liquids and solids often give broad or asymmetric bands and so it is very difficult to measure frequencies precisely . |
| 25 | After all , as the planners maintain , government legislation requires every local authority to provide a full range of services and so it is only logical and business-like to plan to provide these things cheaply . |
| 26 | However , because the reptation is assumed to occur by migration of a segmental kink along the chain , the force needed to do this is applied one segment at a time and so it is more appropriate to use the frictional factor per segment ζ . |
| 27 | In the first example , however , there was no talk of heirs , and so it is more difficult to establish a trust in favour of somebody because it is not at all clear who its beneficiaries are supposed to be . |
| 28 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 29 | These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age . |
| 30 | Their origins , their tectonic and metamorphic history , and their structural relations , present geologists with some of the most complex problems to be solved within the science as a whole , and so it is hardly surprising that many universities have research interests here . |