Example sentences of "is [adj] [coord] [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is dry and it is almost aggressively refreshing — great starbursts of lime juice and orange peel and just a little grapeyness , creating a most unusual citrus cocktail for a warm , spring day . |
| 2 | Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it . |
| 3 | The name is unfamiliar but it is only what its name implies : the capital liabilities that have been discharged , in this case , by repayment of loans . |
| 4 | The nature of the act or omission demanded is immaterial and it is also immaterial whether the menaces relate to action to be taken by the person making the demand . |
| 5 | Whether or not the purchase price is an appropriate or indeed adequate upper limit is arguable but it is only in rare circumstances that a vendor will agree to a higher limit . |
| 6 | The rigidity of the Seayak is noticeable but it is still a plastic boat and therefore slow and fairly cumbersome . |
| 7 | Because the ruler takes on such an exalted role , his power is unchallengeable and he is therefore a despot . |
| 8 | A good deal of this is false but it is now clear that Antony has a much better ‘ grip ’ on the crowd than Brutus has , as his language is simpler , clearer and more direct , his ideas are coming over to the crowd with a much greater force . |
| 9 | The potential is great but it is more difficult to manage . |
| 10 | Although Bob 's command of Serbo-Croat is non-existent and he is only at the early stages of learning Russian the Causevics ' second language — he has enlisted the help of a friend , native Yugoslav Maria Delahunty , to act as an interpreter . |
| 11 | However , segregation of walkers from vehicles provides the greatest safety along routes where vehicle traffic is heavy and it is increasingly realised that this is an appropriate solution too where pedestrian flows are concentrated , such as in central shopping areas . |
| 12 | The world of the imagination is limitless and it is here that the mind must be freed , but it must also be given the spur of inspiration . |
| 13 | ‘ I have no doubt Gordon Wilson is sincere but he is sincerely wrong . |
| 14 | In this case the business of the subsidiary , ie recruitment agencies , is continuing and it is only certain offices that are being closed . |
| 15 | For when it comes it is more violent , more annihilating , more interminable than I can remember it , this feeling in the pit of the stomach , this physical pain and physical desire to retch , to want to get rid of something , of everything , to want to make all that is inside emerge and disappear , drain away , mingle with the rest of the detritus of the world , but it is not only physical , a physical sensation , he wrote , it is physical but it is also something else , not moral , not psychological , not spiritual , but something else , something other than the purely physical . |
| 16 | This is daunting but it is also challenging and stimulating . |
| 17 | They drive me to distraction : at first I refuse to fight back , on the grounds that life is sacred and it is not their fault that they are mosquitos , but I eventually join in the swatting that punctuates the quiet every so often . |
| 18 | After an accident it is often found that maintenance work as well as repairs is necessary and it is quite natural that the Policyholder will want both carried out at the same time . |
| 19 | It is true but it is not the full reason . |
| 20 | Living with uncertainty is distressing and it is very easy for people to feel : |
| 21 | If you are a self starter and have decided on your own initiative that your boss needs yet another report , then check that you do possess convincing evidence that the issue is significant and it is not merely you that wishes to seem important . |
| 22 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 23 | What functions the AD1 and flanking repeats may have is unknown but it is not unlikely that one or another of these repeats represent functional domains . |