Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] is [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also gave employers legal remedies against industrial action in which no dispute exists between employers and their own employees or which is not wholly or mainly about employment matters . |
| 2 | He or she is not nowadays very likely to feature in the book you may write , but the idea lies at the heart of detective fiction and still exercises a subtle influence . |
| 3 | The salesperson should open with a smile , a handshake and , in situations where he or she is not well known to the buyer , introduce himself and the company he represents . |
| 4 | Some of these families may never be able to accept the blackness of such a child , but , at the same time , they know that he or she is not really white . |
| 5 | However , he or she is not legally the owner of any shares and so does not receive dividends , and can not vote . |
| 6 | The employee should not need to show that the perception is incorrect nor that he or she is not actually disabled at all . |
| 7 | When a child goes to school he or she is not only confronted with the traditional school subjects , but also with codes and practices governing behaviour . |
| 8 | The trick here , and in the scores of near-novels that have followed in its wake , is to make the reader , or disciple , imagine that he or she is just as erudite into the bargain : no need to struggle through Dante or The Song of Roland when it is all there in one fat detective story . |
| 9 | The beloved is not separate , absent , but present , at the moment of the poet 's writing or speaking , as of the beloved 's hearing or reading the poem — as , indeed , of the reader 's reading , now and always : he or she is always there as we read . |
| 10 | Later comes a point of being unable to accept the loss , very often searching for the person who has gone and thinking that he or she is still there . |
| 11 | This is not to say that the child or young person is always right ; it is , perhaps , to say that he or she is seldom completely wrong . |
| 12 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
| 13 | In as far as there is an average Japanese , he or she is very much a town dweller . |
| 14 | The reason for this , I later discovered , is that at yours there is likely to be a selection of friends and relations , one of whom in the course of discussion is bound to say , ‘ Come on , let's give him the best ! ’ and although he or she is very seldom the one who is paying for it , no one likes to appear mean at such a time — an attitude , I might add , of which the undertaker thoroughly approves ! |
| 15 | A new stillness enters our hearts , where there is no longer any need to express ourselves . |
| 16 | As soon as you reach the cross-over age where there is no longer a gain , you can contract back into SERPS . |
| 17 | But Papert wants something more , as he wrote in Mindstorm : ‘ I want to know what kind of computer culture can grow in communities where there is not already rich technophilic soil . |
| 18 | There are a substantial number of churches , particularly in either rural or inner-city areas , where there is not even one trained musician . |
| 19 | Particularly the physical side of the work — where there is n't nearly enough . |
| 20 | They , they ca n't er restore it up where there is n't any ! |
| 21 | Negotiations dragging on where there is apparently little separating the two sides ( quite likely in the case of job evaluation where a five point difference in a grade boundary might represent hundreds of posts ) can lead to accusations of bad faith and a potentially dangerous deterioration in the general climate of industrial relations . |
| 22 | In a simple case , where your seller 's solicitor is at a considerable distance , or where there is perhaps already an examined abstract or epitome of the greater part of the title , you may postpone this examination until immediately before completion , in which case strike this item out of your pre-completion agenda and rely on the first item of your completion agenda . |
| 23 | The Government talk about competition , but what chance is there for competition in rural areas where there is perhaps only one bus every hour , or every two or three hours ? |
| 24 | The second vulnerable industrial sector identified in the study is that also characterised by high non-tariff barriers , but where there is currently very little intra-EC trade . |
| 25 | They passed the Strait 's tiny guardian islands , the Evangelistas — where there is now both a lighthouse ant a Chilean signal station — and sailed into an evening that suddenly became magically serene . |
| 26 | Or there is really only one group , but sharing a dual identity , with now one dominating their consciousness , now the other . |
| 27 | The fact that the public law applicant is usually challenging the exercise of a discretionary power does not mean that what is at stake for him or her is any less important than the sort of interests protected by private law . |
| 28 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 29 | The inclusion of related subjects can thus often help the user with a specific search , particularly where he is not adequately familiar with the subject being sought or the way in which the subject is likely to be handled or packaged in the literature . |
| 30 | In the case of Baudrillard , this appears to have been a self-fulfilling prophecy , and he is mainly quoted today within the avant-garde arts , where he is indeed very much in vogue ( Frankovits ed. 1984 ) . |