Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] is " in BNC.

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1 But because economically , in terms of effort and expense in and profit or return out , it would not be sensible , we grow them where it is cheapest to do so .
2 My mouth jams open , and she says that if I really am going , then either she comes with me or she is staying here to pack .
3 This is either some magic geometry of which I know nothing or it is a happy coincidence .
4 THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us .
5 Vision that is 5 per cent as good as yours or mine is very much worth having in comparison with no vision at all .
6 These considerations explain why to say of someone that he is entitled to have authority means that he should be in a position of real power and then he will have legitimate authority .
7 Of course we may say of someone that he is imaginative if he is original and spontaneous , and if his work is expressive .
8 Even if we can convince ourselves that nobody is getting hurt , even if we are sure we are not cheating , we have a suspicion that it is inappropriate . ’
9 By looking at the world through progressively defocused and focused binoculars , we can quickly convince ourselves that there is a graded series of focusing quality , each step in the series being an improvement over the previous one .
10 By progressively turning the colour-balance knob of a colour television set , we can convince ourselves that there is a graded series of progressive improvement from black and white to full colour vision .
11 We sometimes call this the first-best allocation to remind ourselves that it is fully efficient .
12 If I assault someone and it is not justified , not justified , can I be arrested ?
13 If our tunnel vision sees only disconnected fragments , the fault lies within ourselves and it is in remedying that ignorance to which our main efforts should be individually devoted .
14 If it were n't for Lennie , George could have had a peaceful life and have married someone but it is this power of ‘ deep-inside ’ love which kept them together .
15 As the Sister came to me she said ‘ Do n't you think this is yours because it is not .
16 2.4 " Common Parts " means any malls and other pedestrian ways concourses and circulation areas staircases escalators ramps and lifts service roads loading bays forecourts and other ways and areas in the Centre which are from time to time during the Term provided by the Landlord for common use by customers frequenting the Centre and by the Tenants and the occupiers of the Centre or persons expressly or by implication authorised by them Although it is highly unlikely that the landlord would so amend or alter the common parts to make it impossible for the tenant to carry on its business , the following additional wording may be considered :
17 They deal with the dignitaries in the politest possible way , but it is clear to everyone that it is not the dignitaries they have come to see and talk to , but the ordinary people .
18 NICK FARR-JONES picked up a ball for the first time in three months and reminded everyone that he is the world 's best scrum-half .
19 It seems to me that everything is balanced on a knife-edge . ’
20 I thought you told me that everything is in the end political ?
21 Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun .
22 A gardening friend tells me that it is possible to grow pineapples from their tops , but I have no idea how to do it .
23 When I read a novel the emotions aroused in me bring the experience of the events of the narrative into the present , but I am not likely to be misled into thinking it is actually happening for there are enough indicators in the environment to assure me that it is not .
24 When we hear of the Communist Party appealing for law and order it seems to me that it is a matter of Satan rebuking sin .
25 To give me this day at your side was an unforeseen joy , but it oppresses me that it is undeserved : that Famagusta is not yet yours .
26 It comes in the evening after a busy day and tells me that it is past my bed-time .
27 ‘ But obviously there 's something radically wrong with his knee and the signs are telling me that it is a cartilage problem .
28 One TDC guard remarked to me that it is like fibre in the diet .
29 Everything I have learnt teaches me that it is only when you work with rather than against people that achievement and lasting success is possible .
30 It seems to me that it is question of policy which we , as judges , have to decide .
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