Example sentences of "and [pron] is [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |
| 2 | Donald is reputed to have fled to the ( Western ) Isles , and nothing is known of him during the reigns of Macbeth and Malcolm III . |
| 3 | In the second case , a special element *lt ; group> is used , which can appear as the body of a |
| 4 | In the absence of a joint election by the vendor and Newco under s531(3) TA 1988 , " know-how " which has been used in the trade and which is disposed of is treated as part of goodwill . |
| 5 | If L grants a lease to T and then T assigns it to A , there is no privity of contract between L and A since there has been no direct transaction between them ; but there is privity of estate , for A has become L's tenant by acquiring the estate which L created and which is held of L as the immediate landlord . |
| 6 | Stories , and the whole collection , circle around the same events , reapproaching and repeating them until we see them whole and she is healed of them : the ‘ trying times ’ of Pakistan 's civil war , the deaths of her mother and best-loved sister . |
| 7 | Open one of the new novels of the 1950s and read a page at random , and one is reminded of the inter-war comic fictions of P. G. Wodehouse or the early social novels of George Orwell . |
| 8 | The Minutes do not tell us in what Mr R — — — ‘ s ‘ misconduct ’ consisted and he is heard of no more . |
| 9 | The Gothic side of Wordsworth is usually played down , and he is thought of as reacting against the overstimulation of the imagination which medieval fantasy so frequently provided . |
| 10 | Of the stories I have in mind , Othello and Desdemona , Samson and Delilah , Dido and Aeneas , only the third is spoken of , and it is spoken of oracularly . |
| 11 | The tips of the pencils are ‘ cognitively salient ’ , and what is seen of their relation determines the child 's communicated beliefs about length . |
| 12 | These can not be known at the time the decision is to be made and a means of stating what is known and what is assessed of the influence of future events on the commercial performance of the product , permitting comparisons between options , is needed . |
| 13 | These can not be known at the time the decision is to be made and a means of stating what is known and what is assessed of the influence of future events on the commercial performance of the product , permitting comparisons between options , is needed . |
| 14 | But in monumental sculpture , as in gatherings of important people in real life , what matters is who stands next to whom , and what is said of them . |
| 15 | And what is said of the resurrection may be said of other miracles . |
| 16 | The initial one-to-one meeting , held with one of the two group leaders , serves to clarify what participants can expect from the course and what is expected of them . |
| 17 | Children tend to look around them , consider the rules , the firmness of the adult , how other children behave and what is expected of them ; then they adapt their behaviour accordingly . |
| 18 | The purpose of the group meeting should be made clear from the start so that everyone knows what they are about , and what is expected of them . |
| 19 | What he then writes almost gives the impression of avoiding the confusion which I diagnosed above : ‘ This is how self-consciousness arises , the capacity to locate oneself within physical and social space … to know where one is and whom one is dealing with and what is expected of one ’ ( 47 ) . |
| 20 | The leaping of a dumb brute can hardly even sustain its conviction that there is a safe landing ( although a reader would appreciate the attenuated implications ) but the added weight of its needing ‘ to know where one is and whom one is dealing with and what is expected of one ’ is far too much . |
| 21 | The school should ensure that students are well prepared for their Work Experience — that they know where to go and what is expected of them , and that they are confident to ask questions and get full benefit from the placement . |
| 22 | ‘ A company should give people as much information as possible about why change is happening , what impact the changes will have on the individual and what is expected of them . ’ |
| 23 | Unhappily now we are older it has all disappeared , and we must fight again just to retain the few rights we still have , such as state pensions and what is left of the health service . |