Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] is [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knows precisely where he is going now and is fit and eager for the challenge . |
| 2 | That , says McKinsey , is because they spend money where it is needed rather than on grand castles in the air . |
| 3 | Depending on the evolution of management during the early 1990s , the confusions building up in the Training Authority 's role may need to be unravelled : either it is strengthened as an effective arm of central policy , or it is abolished so that the market — created by itself — can have freer play . |
| 4 | At this stage knitters often blame the machine , thinking that it is knitting erratically and incorrectly , when in fact its their fault . |
| 5 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 6 | Hong Kong 's special interest to the zoologist is that it is situated practically where two zoo-geographical regions meet , the Oriental , in which it actually lies , and the Palaearctic . |
| 7 | Traditional civil-law interpretation would say that it is : the words amount to a demonstratio rather than a causa ; the testator is suggesting a means of satisfying the liability under trust rather than indicating that it is to arise only if the estate of Gaius Seius is entered . |
| 8 | Sufficient time to do the statistical work so that it is completed accurately and can be properly checked |
| 9 | Is my hon. Friend aware that without fresh primary legislation it is possible to require owners of green belt land to ensure that it is maintained properly and not just left undeveloped ? |
| 10 | A salient characteristic of the internal structure of' the elite is that it is rational , in the sense that it is structured so as to achieve in a purposeful and conscious manner the objectives of the elite as a whole . |
| 11 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 12 | A provision in an executive director 's service agreement which gives him the right to leave the company with a generous financial package , either in the event that he is dismissed prematurely or because a defined event occurs ( eg a takeover ) which entitles him to be paid a pre-agreed sum . |
| 13 | I suspect that he is doing so because he believed what the Home Secretary said when he intervened . |
| 14 | The horse is leaving ‘ home ’ so make sure that he is going forward and is concentrating on the first fence ahead . |
| 15 | How does a man even try to explain that he is falling apart because he does n't kill people any more ? |
| 16 | A car driver indicates that he is turning right but goes straight on with disastrous consequences , as my brother discovered to his cost recently ! |
| 17 | He feels that he is cured now and stops testing . |
| 18 | May we take it from what he has said that he is saying definitely that he would be prepared at Maastricht to make an irrevocable commitment to a single currency ? |
| 19 | • Check that your child 's heart is beating and he is breathing regularly and , if necessary , give artificial respiration ( see Not Breathing ) . |
| 20 | Faithful , reliable dog provided it is treated properly and trained with firm kindness . |
| 21 | In these recent studies the idea of a unilinear development of society has been largely abandoned , even as representing the view of Marx himself , and it is argued instead that there are alternative form of society which have succeeded the primitive communal system . |
| 22 | B. Life in Britain is changing and it is changing more and more quickly . |
| 23 | Idea-handling is such a structured sub-system , and it is becoming more and more important . |
| 24 | What happens if the income is paid to a person resident in the United Kingdom and it is paid so that it is received as taxable income in the hands of that beneficiary ? |
| 25 | It is to learn when fish spawn and avoid disturbing them ; it is not to dig vegetation from the bank ; and it is to work quietly and unobtrusively . |
| 26 | A company will be considered resident in one of these territories if it is incorporated there and has its head office and place of management there . |
| 27 | Most studies consider only social behaviour in the herd , or readily observed facts , such as that the horse is easily frightened , or that it will work better if it is rewarded rather than punished . |
| 28 | We have no standard conventions for representing the paralinguistic features of the utterance which are summarised as ‘ voice quality ’ , yet the effect of an utterance being said kindly and sympathetically is clearly very different from the effect if it is said brutally and harshly . |
| 29 | A corporate personality can become a tangible asset if it is managed properly and consistently . |
| 30 | The general answer is that you may copy a sound cassette or a video tape or disc for private use , but if it is copied again and again for commercial gain it is a clear breach of copyright and could lead to legal action . |