Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] is [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cooking and eating it is a grand undertaking . |
| 2 | In the case of both /Ε/; and /a/ it is the persons for whom the vowel has less significance as a network marker who seem to be leading the linguistic change . |
| 3 | Manipulation of ‘ needs ’ by both creating them and satisfying them is the process by which social control is effected . |
| 4 | Kenny Logan won his first cap and demonstrated he is a player for the future . |
| 5 | If it can survive — and reforming it is a barely an issue in Britain — maybe anything can , even should . |
| 6 | The favourite place from which to view and sketch them is a clump of trees on the banks of the River Skell , about one-eighth of a mile from the ruins . |
| 7 | Her sister thinks of this pain all day and night and says it is the worst part and I think it is , worse even than how it is to end . |
| 8 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 9 | Now , I put it to you that it is obvious that we all know and suspect it is a false prospectus and that the sort of recovery it implies is just not on . |
| 10 | But an English ex-social worker has come forward after seeing her picture in TODAY and claimed she is a youngster he once counselled . |
| 11 | He reaches into his bag , brings out a sandwich , then stands up and inspects it is the projector beam to see what it contains . |
| 12 | Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's my job to provide the service to the public and ensure it is an efficient and professional service . |
| 14 | ‘ I can not see anyone doing that this time and providing it is a reasonable pace I will be at the front . |
| 15 | But many must involve both ; and reconciling them is a purpose to which the Cabinet is specifically suited . |
| 16 | Information is a raw material like any other and buying it is a sensible thing to do . |
| 17 | A girl who pummels a destructive little brother who ruins her toys and finds she is the one who gets into trouble feels hurt and angry . |
| 18 | I do not think it would be reasonable to pretend that the cost of paying people , recruiting them and retaining them is the same in the south-east as in other parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | Stroll along its shore and find it is a seashore , primly kissed by measured trills of dippy white-capped wavelets . |
| 20 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 21 | It was something you could see , you know , I mean a lot of the things I knew anyway and knowing them is a different problem from actually putting them right . |
| 22 | In reality , it is to introduce as a solution a concept which itself poses a theoretical problem , for as it is adopted and understood it is an uncriticized concept , a concept which , like all ‘ obvious ’ concepts , threatens to have for theoretical content no more than the function that the existing or dominant ideology defines for it . |
| 23 | To stroll into reality , the detail of it and the context , to unravel and to uncover it is a better thing than to sprint past , reading the billboards of science . ’ |
| 24 | What has surprised and pleased him is the public 's response . |
| 25 | OWEN MEANY is a boy who kills his best friend 's mother with a baseball , and decides he is an instrument of God . |
| 26 | Star Woody wants custody of three children from his 12-year relationship with Mia and claims she is a bad mother . |
| 27 | ‘ I will meet Bowe somewhere down the line and prove he is a paper tiger . |
| 28 | Set against this picture and parallel to the theory that accompanies and supports it is the idea of the possibility of order as a creation of social instruments ordained for that very task , namely teachers , police , social workers , and perhaps , in the last resort , parents . |