Example sentences of "and [pron] is [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have ‘ spoken ’ to at least 10 fellow supporters in the last 10 minutes and EVERYONE is completely astounded . |
| 2 | The true is what works , and everyone is equally capable , in this sense , of finding the true and rejecting the false . |
| 3 | I do n't suggest that this is a very crucial question and everyone is really free to use the gun he prefers since they will all do the job . |
| 4 | Mr Boyle said : ‘ We have considered a number of alternatives and nothing is immediately suitable . |
| 5 | If Wordsworth had been a simple country boy , they could have patronized him ; the Johnsonian style of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads showed that he could write like the gentlemanly reviewers if he wanted to , and nothing is more infuriating than one of our own sort who ‘ lets the side down ’ . |
| 6 | And no-one is more aware of the side 's shortcomings than Coyle . |
| 7 | Players with impeccable amateur records have struggled to make a living as professionals and no-one is quite sure why . |
| 8 | Water to you and me is so ordinary . |
| 9 | ‘ I never forget a face , ’ said Jackie Tiptoe , ‘ and yours is definitely familiar . ’ |
| 10 | II of 2,100 , therefore , and which is also equal to . |
| 11 | Although this is an extreme example , it serves to illustrate the selectiveness which characterises linguistic investigation generally , and which is also present to a certain degree in most analysis of discourse . |
| 12 | Manslaughter is the offence committed when one person causes the death of another by an act which is unlawful and which is also dangerous , dangerous in the sense that it is an act which all sober and reasonable people would inevitably realise must subject the victim to the risk of some harm resulting whether the defendant realised that or not . |
| 13 | We must build in the kind of rebate system that the hon. Member for South Dorset ( Mr. Bruce ) tempted me to describe — a rebate system which concentrates on people 's ability to pay and which is not concerned with an artificial concept of status . |
| 14 | Furthermore , a requested authority , whose law obliges the parties themselves to secure the evidence , and which is not able itself to execute the Letter may , with the consent of the requesting authority , appoint a suitable person to do so and recover the appropriate costs . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman is proposing something entirely different , which would certainly be without the law , which is not an advance on 1993 and which is probably impossible . |
| 16 | Professor G.W. Keeton favoured a periodic judicial abstract restatement of general principles , a practice which , apart from obiter dicta , is not provided for in the English legal system , which is anathema to the judges and which is surely legislative responsibility . |
| 17 | This epithelial tropism is likely to be dependent upon the viral upstream regulatory region ( URR ) which drives the expression of the genes encoding the E6 and E7 transforming proteins and which is preferentially active in cells of epidermal origin ( 3 , 4 ) . |
| 18 | The idea is to find an image which pleases you and which is both tranquil and repetitive . |
| 19 | I also speak on behalf of the group New Consensus , of which I am chairman and which is both all-party and none . |
| 20 | First , the size of the capital stock is fixed , an assumption which is characteristic of all short-run analysis and which is wholly unexceptionable . |
| 21 | The panels therefore are a contribution by the guidance staff to a total school philosophy which includes continuous assessment , a school-based certificate in years three and four which covers both the cognitive and affective domains and which is wholly positive in its comments , and mixed-ability teaching in years one and two . |
| 22 | The policies of international aid , which defy rational justification on either economic or strategic grounds , are at once intelligible when viewed as a collective purgation of the fear of envy , to which the ‘ affluent society ’ — itself an envy-guilt coinage — is especially prone and which is more vivid to the donors than the imagined envy is to the recipients . |
| 23 | Clearly myths are dependent on a language and a symbolic system which is shared , and which is therefore social . |
| 24 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |
| 25 | My personal favourite is Fabriano Tiziano , which has a lovely velvet surface , and which is readily available from R K Burt Paper Ltd in London . |
| 26 | As a result of a concerted campaign , which included replacing nine area offices with four regional ones and which is still continuing , a clear six per cent was slashed off the 1991 cost base , bringing the cost ratio down from 19.2 per cent to 15.9 per cent in 1992 . |
| 27 | This provides a mechanism that buffers skews in adult sex ratio and which is quite distinct from Fisher 's principle and allied mechanisms for the primary sex ratio . |
| 28 | By unity of type is meant that fundamental agreement in structure which we see in organic beings of the same class , and which is quite independent of their habits of life . |
| 29 | The Nun 's Priest ends his tale with a direction to the reader/listener , purportedly indicating what they must do : and supporting it with St Paul 's dictum : In the Nun 's Priest 's Tale this is no simple directive , finally defining the purpose of a tale which the narrator has introduced as a " " myrie " " ( " merry " ) exercise , and which is truly comic and lively . |
| 30 | Delhi 's response has been complicated by the existence of the lame-duck Kashmiri state government of Dr Farooq Abdullah , who fought last month 's general election in alliance with the then governing Congress party , and which is deeply unpopular in the valley . |