Example sentences of "and [pron] [am/are] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The plot of ‘ Great Expectations ’ is a very concentrated one , where everything and everyone are linked in the same plot .
2 Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases .
3 ‘ Take me in by your fire for I am shivering with cold and I am lost in the forest … oh be merciful and let me share your fire and give me a cup of milk to sup and a mouthful of bread … ’
4 ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any .
5 Sometimes at work I feel I have had enough and I am overwhelmed by the material so that I thirst for meditation which can be a rededication and a balancing of our lives .
6 The lock clicks back and I am allowed into the inner sanctum .
7 This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at .
8 Each day , when Tod and I are done with the Gazette , we take it back to the store .
9 And that 's still something that comes again and again when men and women , when you and I are confronted with the claims of Jesus what about this ?
10 Still clasped together , my attacker and I are frogmarched behind the scenes , into one of the little meeting-rooms .
11 He has a gorilla mask on and he talks with the voice of a baby and he has a huge syringe and I 'm tied to the seat screaming .
12 and I 'm polished to the nails .
13 Today we 'll be talking about the Social Services Department of Oxfordshire County Council , and I 'm joined by the Director of Social Services , that 's Ian White .
14 And I 'm inundated in the garden with them .
15 Then I arrive in America , I make Robocop and I 'm grilled for the violence .
16 I make Total Recall and I 'm grilled for the violence .
17 I make Basic Instinct … and I 'm grilled for the violence . ’
18 It 's been a privilege to have done this and I 'm overwhelmed by the enthusiasm I 've encountered .
19 I 'm up here and I 'm perched on the ledge
20 And I 'm haunted by the fear that we 're going to pay a hefty price for ignoring the claims of Kenny Benjamin and Anderson Cummins .
21 ‘ I 've run out of money and I 'm trapped with the children and I do n't like it here .
22 You would n't back any well you made the score against any of them and I 'm sat in the studio here .
23 The people slide past like fish and I 'm sucked down the street , heading for the next and then the next set of lights .
24 They are based on standards of competent performance which have been specified by the industry and which are assessed in the workplace .
25 Others are as big as dragons , great bloated monsters which can hardly move from their lairs and which are revered by the Forest Goblins as gods of the forest .
26 Acceptance by parents of the personal standards of heads and other managers has to be buttressed by activities which are verifiable and which are planned outside the framework of personal preferences and skills .
27 ACTIVITY 2 10–15 mins Look again at your answers to Activity 1 and identify which aspects of care are geared to the needs of the individual and which are geared to the needs of the organisation .
28 I am happy to discount that possibility , together with many other stories which appear in the education press and which are represented as the Government 's view .
29 One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services .
30 By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country .
  Next page