Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] is [adj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 An executor should be someone you trust and who is responsible enough to handle your affairs .
2 The help of a skilled adult , who can stand back and observe and who is ready also to join with a child as he plays , to .
3 The tone was to become snarling : ‘ Charmley often tortures the evidence and there is much else to criticise in his scholarly but eccentric re-writing of history .
4 And there is this also to say .
5 If it 's true and he is alive where has he been all this time ?
6 Since then things have improved markedly and it is rare now to see such howlers as the Wirral Globe 's explanation of a 16K RAM as a chip with ‘ up to 16 000 different uses ’ .
7 For basic shapes though , and it is better always to start off at that level , the paper pattern is the right approach .
8 We need to be able to perceive more than the five emotions above , and it is easy enough to do so .
9 And it is easy enough to answer the question : ‘ Why bother at all with the B arrangement , which is wasteful of paper , since three of the four versos are left blank ? ’
10 That makes it dramatically far less effective than on some previous recordings , but the central anthem is beautifully done , and it is good too to have the three superb Funeral Sentence anthems of a few years earlier .
11 No food should be eaten in very large quantities , and it is best not to give any one food every day .
12 All those wins , plus being top of the US Money List for 133 days — it was a fabulous run and it is all faithfully recorded , providing on second reading a clue as to why Lyle is now having trouble hitting his hat .
13 Yes , I readily accept that , er my general proposition is in er connection with the settlement pattern of York , and it is necessary clearly to have er careful regard to that existing settlement pattern , erm if I may refer to the helpful plan that has in fact been produced , I believe by the County Council , it is in fact an appendix to B two zero zero four , er this plan does actually indicate the general extent of the settlements outside the outer ring road of York .
14 In J. Milroy and L. Milroy ( 1977 ) , we justified this method , somewhat retrospectively , in terms of the social network model ( the fieldworker can be described as a second-order network contact ) , and it is useful methodologically to think of it in this way ( indeed , many other investigators have successfully used the idea of social network as an explicit part of their fieldwork strategy ) .
15 This is near to 1.5mm , and it is soft enough to wrap tightly around the dowel , and accepts soft soldering for a neat fix .
16 However , the practice of conveyancing is a professional practice and it is important not to lose sight of good professional standards in one 's conduct .
17 Most children do grow out of their sensitivities gradually , and it is important not to keep them on a restricted diet any longer than necessary .
18 This is easeful music , and it is difficult not to like it .
19 Albania , however , definitely is a part of the developing world in the middle of Europe and it is difficult not to compare Albania with my previous experiences in Africa .
20 Occasional statistics sometimes throw light on the problem ; in 1875 Gladstone 's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees sold 100,000 copies and it is difficult not to see in this a level of religious interest which later declined .
21 Its success will depend upon people believing that Mr Lamont knows what he was doing , and that his forecasts are reliable ; and it is difficult not to reflect that an alternative Chancellor would have had carried more conviction .
22 Hunt as the Surveyor to the Dean and Chapter of the Abbey must have been involved , and it is difficult not to assume that he had a conflict of loyalties in this transaction .
23 Farming families worked hard and long for scanty remuneration , and it is difficult indeed to see them as beneficiaries of the government 's development policy .
24 Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells .
25 However , this " sun-washed " effect , which emulates the ageing process , is often achieved by chemical washing , and it is advisable not to take the term too literally .
26 Several different coloured moon cushions would make a gorgeous present and it is fun sometimes to knit something different .
27 We shall have occasion later to examine the evidence submitted to and conclusions of the Bullock Committee , and it is sufficient here to note not only the submissions from educational and public librarians but also the committee 's support for the work of librarians in schools , and its welcome for the now-emerging courses leading to people dually qualified as both teachers and librarians .
28 An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise .
29 And it is hard not to think of one 's own horror at some of the things that the Irgun and Stern Gang are doing in Palestine , for instance , ’ David said after a long silence .
30 It will often be appreciated by a client for whom sexual difficulty exists but who is uncertain how to raise the matter personally .
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