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

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1 The killas weathers and crumbles easily and so it is easily eroded by rivers and the sea .
2 This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies .
3 The biggest problem with the diabetic clinic is that time tends to be very limited and perhaps it is best regarded as a place for assessment and the identification of problems , with a little time for education .
4 ‘ It has n't dawned on her yet , and anyway she 's always finding people to look after her , or so she thinks .
5 The Three Valleys are bound to be in there too , with Charlotte 's vote probably going to Meribel because it 's in the central valley of the three and not what is invariably described as a concrete jungle ; Val d'Isere because the skiing is just so brill and Tignes is , well , a concrete jungle really .
6 The latest addition to the Stoddard Group , Mercia Weavers as it was known , is now nine months old and already it is fully integrated into the organisation at Elderslie .
7 I have faith healers coming in twice a week and somehow she 's just carrying on .
8 ‘ I must admit it does sound as if your father is enjoying a new lease of life and possibly he is even trying to recapture his youth .
9 Criticised for looking miserable all the time , but others say his seriousness is a pretence and really he 's just taking the mickey out of himself .
10 And now somebody 's probably tipped him off that the police are on to him and he 's doing what they all do , running off to Spain where they ca n't get him .
11 ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through .
12 Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through .
13 And now it 's finally happening .
14 ‘ Planned it for years to give me pleasure in my retirement and now it 's just getting into a mess .
15 So that 's all arranged and now it 's just waiting for everything
16 He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water .
17 And now it 's almost finished , except for one last job .
18 And now he 's nowhere earning
19 Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year .
20 Lee Clark has fought a patient battle to force his way into Keegan 's plans and now he is rapidly proving indispensable .
21 Mrs and now she 's just gon na go burn out ! .
22 The white men took away our land , ’ she said tucking the coin down the front of her dirty dress , ‘ And now there is nowhere left to grow maize .
23 WHEN William Stukeley arrived in Stamford in 1729 to take up the living of All Saints ' Church , he was already a well-known physician and public figure , and today he is still remembered as one of the father figures of British archaeology .
24 There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it .
25 ‘ He likes to be adored of course , and maybe he 's just lobbying for an extension of his fan club , but I would n't have thought he was that desperate .
26 We 've been lucky so far , and maybe it 's still working . ’
27 And then she 's just think of that .
28 Yeah and then she 's already cut it up into twelfths like this and then she thinks about asking them who wants pizza and there 's only four of them want pizza after all this trouble .
29 And he just sat I swear and then he 's just sitting there
30 so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer .
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