Example sentences of "and [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie grabs her bag from the wire cage under her seat , throws on her coat and is down the stairs and out in the street before any of the others . |
| 2 | The dishwasher has been tucked away in the central island and is opposite the main sink , so dishes can be quickly rinsed and put out of sight . |
| 3 | Brent Council : a minority Tory administration kept in power by the two-member ‘ Democratic Labour Party ’ , two Africanist former Labour councillors , one of whom has publicly praised Idi Amin and is under investigation by the fraud squad . |
| 4 | A new instrument for vector field measurements , comprising a proton magnetometer mounted in a two-axis coil system , has been designed and built , and is under test . |
| 5 | Hawkinge is one of the few remaining Battle of Britain airfields and is under threat from the developers , with the possibility of several hundred houses being built between the existing Battle of Britain Museum and the well-known gap on the cliffs overlooking Folkestone . |
| 6 | His party is riven by personal and ideological differences and is under fire because of allegations of corruption . |
| 7 | He puts forward an ethic consisting of habits of mind and of behaviour to which he thinks one will inevitably move to the extent that one has rational insight into the human situation and is under the control of that rational part of one 's nature which gives one unity as a personality . |
| 8 | A bona fide purchaser of a stolen ‘ cultural object ’ does not acquire good title and is under an obligation to return it . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
| 10 | If any question arises as to this , the defence is entitled , and is under a duty , to invite the trial judge to exercise the discretionary power given to him by section 17 of the Evidence Act , which corresponds exactly to section 5 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1865 ( 28 & 29 Vict. c. 18 ) and provides : |
| 11 | JTP is the Northern Ireland equivalent of ET , and is under the auspices of the Training and Employment Agency . |
| 12 | She has had treatment in hospital for depression and is under sedation at the present time . |
| 13 | An offer has been made and is under consideration by the Congregational Board . |
| 14 | Their preliminary report on this matter has been received and is under consideration by the Crown prosecution service . |
| 15 | By s.5(3) : [ w ] here a person receives property from or on account of another , and is under an obligation to the other to retain and deal with that property or its proceeds in a particular way , the property or proceeds shall be regarded ( as against him ) as belonging to the other . |
| 16 | By s.5(4) : [ w ] here a person gets property by another 's mistake and is under an obligation to make restoration ( in whole or in part ) of the property or its proceeds or the value thereof , then to the extent of that obligation the property or proceeds shall be regarded ( as against him ) as belonging to the person entitled to restoration , and an intention not to make restoration shall be regarded accordingly as an intention to deprive that person of the property or proceeds . |
| 17 | Ahead I can see that Odd-Knut has stopped and is off his sledge . |
| 18 | With Sissy she eventually discovers him lying in a disused mine shaft , and is with him when he dies . |
| 19 | Each tool kit contains SIX Makita power tools and is worth £760 , and we have THREE of these sets as prizes . |
| 20 | Meanwhile he draws his salary of £63,047 a year — and is worth every penny of it . |
| 21 | This measure will benefit seven million families and is worth £127.40 a year to a family with two children . |
| 22 | It can be visited from Milan , and is worth the time . |
| 23 | The red Yamaha 125 has the registration number H982 LBP , and is worth £2,500 . |
| 24 | In daylight the mound is still to be seen and is worth the climb for views of the sea , the plain of Holderness , and the village itself with the church standing proudly at the west end of the village . |
| 25 | It now attracts international drivers from all over Europe and is worth points in the European Championship . |
| 26 | ‘ Ghosts ’ at least demonstrates that the music does n't have to have the speed of a cocaine-snorting cheetah to create the energy and is worth checking out for this alone . |
| 27 | 2.15:LYNDA Ramsden 's Sillars Stalker lost his unbeaten record when runner-up to Bollin William at Haydock and is worth opposing off a 5lb higher mark here . |
| 28 | MIINNEHOMA should take advantage , and is worth backing at 2-1 with Ladbrokes . |
| 29 | It weighs 6lb 11oz and is worth £230 . |
| 30 | The result of browsing off hedges and other plants , not just grass , goat manure normally has the most balanced NPK content of any , and is worth its weight in gold . |