Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] is [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you own or lease property where no-one is living you may have to pay a standard community charge in that area in addition to the personal charge in the area you live . |
| 2 | Where nothing is written it takes time to create a document which is genuinely useful to many of us , both as a verification of our struggle and a signpost to future strategies for our art work . |
| 3 | We are in London 's trendy media haunt , the Groucho Club , where he has that day become a member , his celebrity enabling him to jump a one-year waiting list to his evident delight , and where he is promoting his new BBC travel series Pole to Pole , a sequel to the successful Around the World in 80 Days . |
| 4 | Although billed in the contact magazines as ‘ couples only ’ , the male-female ratio here is about 25 to one ; the one is the topless woman , so everyone is paying her very special attention . |
| 5 | Once someone is elected they serve every member of that constituency , antis as well as pros . |
| 6 | Her salary is not excessive so she is setting herself a strict budget for her homebuying . |
| 7 | People are people and there is more in common than there is to separate them . |
| 8 | Although it is accepted their goodwill is necessary , respondents expect that there will be financial implications of implementing the recommendations . |
| 9 | ( Although it is believed he survived the War , nothing more seems to be known about him ) . |
| 10 | The dead man has not yet been identified although it is known he was 39years-old and was travelling as a front seat passenger in a Ford Escort van . |
| 11 | Although it is thought it contained only a small amount of money , there is concern about confidential documents which also went missing . |
| 12 | It is much easier to advocate such a policy ( i.e. to avoid making hasty decisions ) on the ground than it is to execute it in the air when presented with an unusual emergency . |
| 13 | It is far more painful and exhausting to suppress our emotions than it is to experience them . |
| 14 | So erm you know that 's th what I 'm really talking about is more a question of the process of erm career choice , than it is saying what you should do . |
| 15 | When someone first joins an organisation , it 's much easier for them to ascertain their new colleagues ' overt status than it is to understand their active status . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's always easier to hate others than it is to hate ourselves . ’ |
| 17 | It is far easier to prevent behaviour problems from developing than it is to correct them once they have become entrenched habits . |
| 18 | It is not difficult to learn a simple technique of inducing a hypnotic state in another person — it is knowing how to deal with that person once he is hypnotized which is important , and not to be indulged in for fun . |
| 19 | Teachers are seen to display personal qualities of which the observer disapproves ; so it is assumed they lack more desirable ones . |
| 20 | The world 's biggest computer maker still needs this division as a supplier , but was failing to run it profitably ; so it is selling it to its managers and Clayton & Dubilier , leaving them to run it but still with a supply contract to IBM . |
| 21 | ‘ They have , you might say , short take off and landing , and once it is landed it can be made airborne again by simply taking one step back and tugging . |
| 22 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 23 | Pizazz Plus is a TSR ( Terminate and Stay Resident ) program , so once it is loaded it will be there whenever it is needed . |
| 24 | Once it is established what the defendant knew , then the inference to be drawn from these primary facts is objective . |
| 25 | In all cases , official assistance is optional ; service by private means will always satisfy the English rules , provided nothing is done which is contrary to the law of the state in which service is to be effected . |
| 26 | If someone is shielding her then she 'll probably have a bed for the night . ’ |
| 27 | I mean , I think if someone is showing you the rainforest and he does n't stop every ten yards to show you something , then that 's not a good guide . |
| 28 | I wonder if someone is pulling my syphon tube … |
| 29 | It 's like somebody is watching it all for you … ’ |
| 30 | I wonder if she is getting it even , she says she 's gon na |