Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found the article very interesting , & I was glad to be reminded of the pictures . |
| 2 | ‘ I went to Paris and I saw with my own eyes — either that or I was young and I dreamt it all — workers and students and young people together , fighting , helping each other-socialism was on the streets . ’ |
| 3 | yes , well is there any more you want to say on that , is er , er , er , subject to Mr as you say of course , erm I just simply wanted to know erm so that I can have a , a , a look , erm at what on one view , erm might be the , the case , it might clear be the conclusion that you er incorrect in or partially incorrect or I was unable to answer all the questions er at this stage |
| 4 | or I was frightened , or my wife was pregnant , |
| 5 | When that happens , it will be possible for anyone who needs an interpreter to contact one by telephone and know that , when the interpreter arrived , he or she was competent and worked to a nationally recognised code of professional practice . |
| 6 | He or she was poorest when a child when the maternal family had most dependents , in early middle life after marriage and the arrival of young children and again in old age . |
| 7 | The sinner is thereby declared righteous , not because he or she was innocent of the charges brought against them , but because of the righteousness which belongs to Christ and is bestowed on them . |
| 8 | Yeah , exactly , so if , if you look at it in terms of the Kipsigy you know system , you can clearly see that what they showed was youth and plumpness were the critical fac an an and attractiveness , if the girl was young , plump and attractive she got a high and if the girl was older erm , if she had something wrong with her or she was skinny , then the less and that 's , so it 's quite interesting |
| 9 | In cases of phonological dyslexia , the patient finds it almost impossible to read any word with which he or she was unfamiliar prior to brain injury . |
| 10 | It stated that anyone who moved into a property valued at less that £10 a year could be sent back to the place where he or she was last legally settled if they were likely to become chargeable to the poor rates . |
| 11 | Thus , if an individual shareholder sustained loss while relying on negligently prepared accounts , whether by selling or retaining shares or by purchasing additional shares , he or she was entitled to recover his or her loss . |
| 12 | A scale was formed by simply scoring the number of times the respondent said that he or she was satisfied ; the resulting scale started with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 6 , but it was dichotomized at the median value into a scale of political alienation with two values ( high and low ) . |
| 13 | I ca n't see singing in the party Debbie 's daughter the one that comes round with her sometimes she 's er she went into hospital on Tuesday er er Monday that 's right , she had operation Tuesday for her tonsils , come out yesterday or she was supposed to come out yesterday . |
| 14 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 15 | Neither they nor the local relief committees were given any remit whatsoever with regard to how food should be dispensed or who was eligible to receive it . |
| 16 | If they had really wished to do so , they could have found enough constituencies where Labour was a bad third and where the candidate him- or herself was willing to step down just before nominations closed . |
| 17 | That 's punishment , yeah , they would either do that or there was one driver down there he broke a wheel , that were n't his fault , and he had to pay for it , he had to go in the office like I did once . |
| 18 | I know er , down at Corfe Junction or a one road across or one another across or there was one road going to Wimborne , one going to Broadstone , up road and down road . |
| 19 | Either Edward 's account was true , or there was some bizarre pattern of collusion between them — he providing cover for her insecurity , or — equally possible — she reinforcing his . |
| 20 | And on would come dear old Bill , or whoever was stuck in the Met . |
| 21 | Either it was neutral — all purposes — and a guaranteed damper on a special outfit ; or it was fun — zany — and over-the-top for everyday . |
| 22 | And it 's obviously that one was n't , just did n't want it or it was dead or something and they just left it . |
| 23 | Or he was bored . |
| 24 | What planning should he undertake with respect to inheritance tax — bearing in mind that under the deemed domicile provisions in IHTA 1984 , s267(1) the taxpayer is deemed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom if he was so domiciled three years immediately preceding his death or he was resident in the United Kingdom in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the death occurs ? |
| 25 | But people tended to be afraid of him or he was afraid of them . |
| 26 | All this talk of weighing and measuring and being an F or an E or whatever was new to me . |
| 27 | And then you mailed the letter or delivered the letter or whatever was necessary . |
| 28 | After carefully exploring a variety of different theoretical approaches to explaining government growth , the study looked at seven different policy areas — public assistance , elementary and secondary education , higher education , environment , unemployment , libraries and fire protection — and examined who or what was important in the process of governmental growth . |
| 29 | A warm welcome was given to Cicely and everyone was delighted to see that she was making such excellent progress . |
| 30 | Only jazz musicians had smoked marijuana before , and everyone was astounded about Dean because open use of drugs was virtually unknown and still carried heavy penalties ; regular offenders were sent to prison and any public knowledge of even marijuana usage brought furore in the headlines , as Robert Mitchum discovered . |