Example sentences of "and is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professionally-based community care is here to stay and is increasingly needed , backed by access to respite and long stay hospice beds and acute ward facilities . |
| 2 | ACET has already been drawn overseas and is working in Romania , Uganda and Tanzania , in partnership with local church-based projects and in conjunction with government programmes . |
| 3 | AIDS affects over 160 countries and is now taking an increasingly heavy toll . |
| 4 | Our work in the African continent centres on Uganda and is supported by Tear Fund . |
| 5 | He no longer wishes to emigrate and is planning to write his memoirs . |
| 6 | Fr Jin has apparently refused — he is in good health despite his age — and is not prepared to admit to any criminal activity to secure his release . |
| 7 | Critical appreciation was desired by fry as a necessary part of a course in art history ; , and is today naturally included . |
| 8 | It represents Padmapani holding a blue lotus , and is located at one side of a cell entrance . |
| 9 | The city of Kyoto , the imperial capital , lies surrounded by hills and is frequently bathed in mists . |
| 10 | The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote . |
| 11 | The theory is not so useful in defining the quality or strength of responses , and is no help in analysing the interactions of responses . |
| 12 | His role in relation to the disturbances is never really clarified , nor is that of Stephens , an intelligent boy who deserts the Grange , is in touch with the gangs , and is murdered . |
| 13 | It is headed by the big man 's white man , the Belgian scholar Raymond , who has lost favour with his patron and is sinking into ceremonies of highly-placed sagacity , Salim has an affair with the white man 's white woman , his stylish wife Yvette : radical chic persuades him that he ‘ never wanted to be ordinary again' . |
| 14 | Metty betrays his master and is then left in the lurch , predicting a future whose likelihood the novel does not lead us to discount : ‘ They 're going to kill and kill . ’ |
| 15 | He has published a second volume of autobiography , in which he deals with his years as a student at Oxford before and after the world war , and is now bursar of one of the colleges there . |
| 16 | Hawksmoor speaks the words of romantic duality , and is in a number of ways a double book . |
| 17 | Sinclair 's , at all events , is the work of a Modernist , and is unlikely to be that of an occultist . |
| 18 | His story is interwoven with , and is replicated by , a modern tale , in which Charles Wychwood 's comet-like career is featured . |
| 19 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 20 | Jaromil is not so much a character as a type , and is not unlike the Shelleyan poet in Shaw 's Candida , Eugene Marchbanks . |
| 21 | What is required is a poetry which does not analyse or criticise , and is suitable for throngs and parades : we are in a situation where the self-portraits of the lyric author can be displayed like placards . |
| 22 | When the Europeans decide to return , their guide decides to stay , and is immediately killed . |
| 23 | But it was clear , and is clearer still in retrospect , that on a number of occasions an old decorum had been deferred to , or embraced . |
| 24 | At times a golden girl is present in the vicinity of the discussions of the subject that keep happening , and is felt to restore a balance . |
| 25 | The former is ventriloquial ; the latter gives ‘ a carnival sense of the world ’ , and is the more hopeful . |
| 26 | An author is and is not his book . |
| 27 | The reader knows that it is Zuckerman 's statement too , that it is fiction , and is likely to remind himself that it could well belong to the infinite regress of the dualistic indeterminable , where claim and counter-claim alternate indefinitely . |
| 28 | I realise that what I am describing , people divided in themselves , is said to characterise mental illness , and is the absolute opposite of our idea of emotional integration . |
| 29 | I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist . |
| 30 | By then a ‘ desperate man ’ , Leonid is sent as such on a desperate mission , and is killed . |