Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun sg] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it may not be enough for an employer to say " I 'm a wine merchant and my ex-employee is now working as a wine merchant and so I am entitled to enforce an express restriction " . |
| 2 | The best of Assynt , however , lies between this road and the coast , and my preference is always to turn off the A.894 two miles out of Kylesku and go along a narrow road that has never been improved and I hope never will . |
| 3 | Well I always have , and my mum 's always said to me why ever do n't you sit down |
| 4 | I was born too late and I discovered what I wanted to do too late and what I did I did too late and my death is about to come far too late . |
| 5 | I 've nothing against young people discovering the beauty of our national parks ( I myself am only 23 ) and my anger is not directed at the offenders themselves , but at the so-called leaders of the group . |
| 6 | I have erm one daughter living here and a son living here but my eldest daughter is in the United States and my granddaughter is just finishing her last year of law . |
| 7 | Something bangs hard into me and my arm is almost wrenched free , but eventually the dogs stop , no longer interested in dragging the overturned sledge and me . |
| 8 | I mutter , and my mouth is still glued up . |
| 9 | Each company unit regularly assesses its own performance against numerous bench-marks , and its self-assessment is then validated by senior managers from another part of the group . |
| 10 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 11 | This subgenre of popfiction is delineated by long descriptions of some commonly found story-lines and its style is successfully contrasted with that of magazine stores and romances . |
| 12 | Within the industry , Swithland Motors is recognised as one of the fastest growing dealerships in the country and its success is partly explained by its female sales force . |
| 13 | The site has long been identified with the Durobrivae of the Antonine Itinerary and the Ravenna Cosmography , and its name is further recorded on several mortarium stamps . |
| 14 | It is aimed at minds rather than bodies ( though it uses bodies ) and its intent is not to torment ( though it may do so ) . |
| 15 | The division of labour is closely linked with exploitation in all the works considered here , and its development is usually associated with the growth of slavery , which , together with serfdom , is seen as an intermediary step towards the development of the ‘ free ’ labour of capitalism . |
| 16 | Widdel and colleagues propose a third mechanism , the use of ferrous iron as the reductant in light-driven CO 2 fixation by anaerobic bacteria using only photosystem I. Such a pathway is energetically favoured , and its existence is now substantiated by Widdel and co-workers . |
| 17 | It , too , is an important place of pilgrimage and its music is increasingly finding its way into parishes . |
| 18 | The stage covers nearly 800 square metres , the largest in Europe , and its size is further enhanced by the optical trick of its being slightly sloped . |
| 19 | Evidence is accumulating that the cap , in combination with the transfer of funds to the Research Councils , has had a serious effect on the intellectual life of the University , and its removal is earnestly awaited . |
| 20 | MEL is part of the Philips group , and its contender is heavily based on a radar known as Smart which another Philips company is developing in Holland for the Dutch Navy . |
| 21 | Tesco Danish Light is brewed as a standard lager and its alcohol is then removed . |
| 22 | The state and its machinery is generally viewed as beneficent in this context . |
| 23 | Social class is a major behavioural determinant of consumer buying behaviour , and its importance is widely acknowledged by marketers . |
| 24 | But Domesday was concerned with tenants and householders , not with heads ; it has many omissions ; and its arithmetic is often baffling . |
| 25 | Trading is prohibited unless the relevant information and its source is publicly disclosed by press release or otherwise within a reasonable time period prior to any purchase or sale . |
| 26 | The National Park is not an island and its future is strongly influenced by decisions made in Cardiff and Westminster , and indeed Brussels . |
| 27 | This , of course , is the classic transportation problem and its solution is well known . |
| 28 | At each moment the effect may be intensely impressive , but if we can not remember anything with precision afterwards , the music is lost again forever , and its value is therefore diminished . |
| 29 | For example , in 1978 a Caratacus silver unit of the Atrebates tribe ( 35–40 AD ) was valued at £2,500 ; at present the same coin would be worth only around £250 and its value is still falling . |
| 30 | Much of it is concentrated in sectors which face a seasonal demand for their output or services and its practice is long established . |