Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] is [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes little thought to see that someone who is physically crippled and confined to a wheelchair may still lead a very full life if his mental and higher faculties are in good order whereas a physically fit but totally demented person has little left to give and little capacity to receive except for physical care and a little love . |
| 2 | ‘ There are so many more cross-border deals today , and if you can speak German or French or Japanese and you go for a job against somebody who is equally qualified but only speaks English , you will get hired . ’ |
| 3 | A statute is , after all , the formal and complete intimation to the citizen of a particular rule of the law which he is enjoined , sometimes under penalty , to obey and by which he is both expected and entitled to regulate his conduct . |
| 4 | There , between 1647 and 1655 Taylor wrote the books for which he is best known and kept the flame of his proscribed Church alive under the rule of parliament and Cromwell . |
| 5 | This alone would permit the evaluation of UK problems and policies in their international setting and clarify the implications of policy choices at the EEC level for the UK and the rest of the EEC as well as locating options for Europe as a whole in the global context by which it is powerfully influenced and constrained . |
| 6 | ‘ A superordinate grouping in which it is explicitly stated that all members share a single attribute was , however , much more likely when linguistic predicates were formed as complete sentences with copula [ ‘ they are round ’ ] than as incomplete sentences without . |
| 7 | Overall , a healthy plurality of different initiatives is likely to arise if a strong voluntary sector grasps the opportunity with which it is currently presented and if it is actively supported by the statutory authorities . |
| 8 | Metal which has been purchased and committed to future sales to customers or hedged in metal markets is valued at the price at which it is contractually committed or hedged , adjusted for unexpired contango . |
| 9 | Postulating the presence of a generalized person in the infinitive whose position in time as support of the infinitive 's event is either coincident or subsequent to another position of this same person , at which it is often represented as support of some other event , thus leads to a more profound comprehension of the motives underlying the use of to . |
| 10 | The next thing er which again er is er a detail of something which is already approved and it is merely than in our conditions of service during our discussions with the city er personnel department we noted , or they noted as it had arisen that we indicated the route to erm sick pay over a certain period and before a certain period but not the detail of how you got there . |
| 11 | An offer is something which is clearly intended if accepted to form a binding agreement . |
| 12 | Aggression , in the Morrissey vision , is something which is both permitted and to be encouraged in certain circumstances . |
| 13 | One , we set up a w er er a working group which has brought together that consultation addressed that consultation argument and I would point out that Mr amendment er does clearly enshrine that as obviously something which is now seen as useful , er and I think that 's important . |
| 14 | Ageism is one of the most insidious forms of discrimination , one which is widely accepted and rarely challenged . |
| 15 | The other constraint on the speaker is that the word-meaning chosen must also be one which is conventionally accepted as used for entities rather than for properties . |