Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] is " in BNC.

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1 Doubt is a state of mind in suspension between faith and unbelief so that it is neither of them wholly and it is each only partly .
2 This practice is said to suit them better since it is probable that they will marry and leave off work and they hardly like to spend seven years out of their wage-earning life in being trained . " "
3 Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need .
4 He must be encouraged to bascule over them so that he is ready to jump the more demanding and athletic type fences he is bound to encounter later on .
5 Suddenly , but predictably , the main actor enters the stage and speaks in a piercing voice , intelligible to me only because it is unmistakably one of alarm .
6 Now , where a contract is unenforceable against someone merely because he is a minor , a contract of guarantee is enforceable against the guarantor .
7 I kill where I please because it is all mine .
8 A person is no more entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of a tort committed against someone else than he is entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of breach of a contract to which he is not a party .
9 It is acceptable to use the same name as someone else if it is used for a different class of goods or services to the ones for which the first mark is registered .
10 He failed the test and the reward has gone to someone else and it is not , Anna said fiercely to herself , pressing her palms to her closed eyes , it is not fair that he should never know what he can not do , that he should always set himself targets he ca n't achieve , that he should never be allowed to progress .
11 In particular , the ERCs fail in some cases to rehabilitate the men and women who pass through them largely because it is not their physical disablement but their attitude that is handicapping them in returning to normal working life , and the ERCs are not really equipped to change these attitudes .
12 purifying himself just as he is pure .
13 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life .
14 It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out .
15 Were he among familiars it might help him but as it is he can not place himself here and it is pitiful to see how lost he is .
16 to tell his constituents that with London 's share of world trade in financial services is increasing and is now at twenty seven percent that the financial services sector round the U K four point three billion , that those employees that he refers to are in fact in an industry which even if it is redistributing employment it 's nevertheless growing .
17 Your own notes are personal to you and ordered by you so that it is relatively easy to find the material you want when you want it .
18 And all we say is that we pay extra commission if we send you away but it is against er against our principle and even er economics to send people that far away .
19 No goals as yet in the other game in group A against Charlton although as I warned you earlier , I do n't think we 'll have that score for you tonight because it is being played in Italy and er our chances of getting that score through the er computer here are remote to put it mildly .
20 Even if she is sympathetic , it does n't mean that she will automatically want to start a serious relationship with you just because she is gay .
21 ‘ I 'm turning this project over to you purely because it is my personal opinion that you can do it .
22 ‘ How does your father continue to humiliate you now that he is dead ? ’
23 I am glad we have that partnership with all of you here and it is on that note , on behalf of the government , that I wish you every possible success as you embark upon your seventy fifth year .
24 But how can we send you there if it is not in the service of God ? ’
25 Hewlett-Packard Co is not a company to rush into something just because it is the fashion , but with ICL Plc firmly in the Sparc camp , Groupe Bull SA committed to IBM Corp 's Power RISC and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's allegiance to the Alpha RISC bought dearly by Digital Equipment Corp — with Hewlett an unsuccessful contender in both the last two cases , the company may well be beginning to think that persuading Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG of the virtues of the Precision Architecture RISC is a high priority if it is to be seen to have equal standing with its three closest rivals in Europe .
26 And we really need two men out there , but I ca n't ask more of them than they 're doing ; they 're making up for one short as it is .
27 Every time the series is shown in Nicaragua , Zimbabwe , Iceland or wherever , I 'm sent something even if it is only a few shillings .
28 Most people will offer something even if it is only a few per cent for cash on delivery .
29 Do you try out new things , move on and try out something else if it is not successful , build on the things that go well ?
30 It is unlike everything else and it is the cause of the destruction of everything else because it is no different from anything else .
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