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

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1 The character Tamburlaine dominates throughout this tragedy , and although he is rarely challenged , it is interesting to see the stark contrast between his character and those he is surrounded by .
2 and although he 's well trained and they exercise him .
3 Her never-failing enthusiasm and dedication helped to build the strong support now enjoyed in this area , and although she is now retired , she still attends a weekly class .
4 The rights to Presley 's ‘ Sun ’ recordings were acquired by RCA Victor together with the rights to the artist , and although it is now known that the tapes in RCA Victor 's vault are not actually the 1955 originals , they are extremely good copies , and all have been reissued on compact disc .
5 It is not putting environmental considerations first , last and if there 's any left over , in between as well .
6 If it 's negatively correlated , it means as one score increases , the tendency is for the other one to decrease , and if it 's virtually zero it means there 's no relationship between the two .
7 If it 's s something like that and they tell me the amount of furniture and if two thirds of the van will be filled with big stuff , and then they tell me there 'll be half a dozen boxes , I assume there 'll be at least four times that number of boxes , and if it 's still going to go on , we 'll do it .
8 After a while , if undisturbed , the Aplysia puts its siphon out again , and if it is then prodded a second time , it will show the same withdrawal reflex .
9 But one is almost totally dependent on the biographical sources for such humanizing detail ; and if it is sometimes given amongst the flood of factual information , often it is not , and one is left to speculate .
10 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 .
11 The training of nurses to prescribe will be vital if the service is to be as widely available as we want it to be and if it is genuinely to benefit patients .
12 The fungus has no heart nor ‘ Achilles ’ heal and unless it is completely destroyed to its limits , it will develop fresh strength and start again to devour the timberwork .
13 This issue will be discussed first in this section because it is controversial and because it is also related to the issues of salinisation and soil erosion which will be examined below .
14 We have spent some time on the preliminaries , particularly the notation , because notation is essential for communication and because it is often neglected as a stage in attacking a problem .
15 And since it is generally recognised that managers cost their companies at least three times their annual salary , the scope for cost-saving is enormous .
16 Sanger duty is particularly boring because there is nothing else to do but look out of the window , and since it is rarely done in pairs social interaction provides no compensation .
17 Marshal Tolonen put me in charge of this investigation , and while it 's still going on , you report to me , understand me , Major Ebert ?
18 and whether he 's still going .
19 One of the issues for us here is who does this work and whether it is equitably distributed between different family members .
20 I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way .
21 A party is not mandated to carry out particular policies in the sense of the term " mandate " used above , and as it is commonly understood .
22 The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty .
23 ‘ We saw her yesterday afternoon and though she is still getting treatment she is better . ’
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