Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [is] [adj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I respect the hon. Gentleman 's commitment to those matters , and he is right to point to one of the problems . |
| 2 | A manager is accountable to his superiors in the organisation for his actions and he is obliged to report to his superior how well he has exercised his responsibility and the use of the authority delegated to him . |
| 3 | That way , you then get his attention and he is obliged to listen to you . |
| 4 | It does not matter how convinced or dogmatic the judge appears to be : keep at him as long as you think you have some hope of success and he is willing to listen to you . |
| 5 | The youth … is capable of having principles ; his religious and moral ideas can be cultivated , and he is able to attend to his own refinement . |
| 6 | In this way the patient 's confidence grows during the course of the single session and he is able to bring to the forefront of his mind the relevant period in his life . |
| 7 | It 's about halfway between London and Edinburgh , about level with Liverpool and Hull , and it 's easy to get to by train , plane or automobile . |
| 8 | " There 's a lot of opportunity out there , " he says , " and it 's tough to get to the bottom of it all . |
| 9 | Leonard Bernstein 's five-movement Serenade , inspired ( if that is the word ) by Plato 's Symposium , is dreary in the extreme and dispiritingly derivative ( sub-Stavinsky , sub-Copland , sub-Ives ) ; and it is vapid to listen to . |
| 10 | The condition and appearance of a rug can be affected by a number of factors other than age , and it is dangerous to jump to the conclusion that something is necessarily old because it is worn and in a poor state of repair . |
| 11 | You can choose whether you want the rulers to be in inches or centimetres and it is possible to work to millimetre accuracy if you need to . |
| 12 | There are variations in the literature used by each of the four plaintiffs and it is necessary to refer to the various brochures , application forms , conditions of employment and report forms . |
| 13 | Section 17 is an interpretation section , and it is necessary to refer to parts of that . |
| 14 | Beyond the timber , brick and stone structures themselves and their tiled or slated roofs , there is virtually no direct evidence to confirm the presence of carpenters , masons , bricklayers , slaters , tilers and thatchers , and it is difficult to guess to what degree the local construction industry was a specialist concern . |
| 15 | That has now been reduced to about 2,100 and it is likely to fall to about 1,800 . |
| 16 | All such cases need an alternative approach to the problem of origin and it is natural to turn to scientific techniques to see if they have something to offer . |
| 17 | As its name implies , the m-derived section is based on the constant-k section with which is cascaded and it is customary to refer to the undeveloped constant-k section as the prototype . |
| 18 | His scale of values was that of few men , and it is hard to point to any of his successors who carried on his work . |