Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suzanne Garment writes in her recent book Scandal : ‘ The great American scandal machine that we have built for ourselves is up and running with ferocious momentum . ’ |
| 2 | When someone is regularly and edifyingly prophesying with fruitful results , then it may be he will become known to have the ministry of a prophet . |
| 3 | Hence the importance of the residential and extracurricular activity — above all occasions and activities in which the teenager can know that someone is unobtrusively and undemandingly interested in them . |
| 4 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 5 | A party who wishes to appeal from an arbitration award will be able to do so only : ( 1 ) if he has not entered into an international contract where the right to appeal has been excluded ; or ( 2 ) if he has not agreed to exclude the right to appeal after the dispute has arisen ; or ( 3 ) if the subject-matter is admiralty , commodities or insurance ; or ( 4 ) if he is challenging a finding where there is a need to interpret certain standard form contracts ; or ( 5 ) if he is challenging a finding which is plainly and seriously wrong . |
| 6 | The high loading capacity of the existing warehouse floors meant that little structural alteration was required , and the new steel-framed structure , which is simply and elegantly expressed , was designed to rest on the party walls . |
| 7 | In order to appreciate something which is above and beyond ourselves we have to rid ourselves for a time of our sophistication and , in the words of Jesus Christ , become as little children again . |
| 8 | We want a national curriculum which is above and beyond the suspicion of party politics . |
| 9 | A system which is openly and avowedly inferior does not encourage those who participate in it to have a high self-esteem . |
| 10 | The speed of computers , their capacity to store , combine , retrieve and transfer data , their flexibility and the low unit cost of the work they do , all facilitate the establishment and maintenance of ever more extensive record systems , retaining more and more data , which is easily and quickly accessible from many distant points . |
| 11 | Speaking as an old university hack who 's been teaching courses in this place since nineteen sixty two , the Shakespeare course is the one thing which is utterly and deeply different every time I teach it . |
| 12 | Speaking as a , an old university hack who 's been teaching courses in this place since 1962 , the Shakespeare course is the one thing which is utterly and deeply different every time I teach it . |
| 13 | It is difficult to find a notional category which is regularly and uniformly expressed in all languages . |
| 14 | The awareness of God which is fragmentarily and partially there in all men was fully and perfectly formed in Jesus , and spreads from him to those who believe in him . |
| 15 | ‘ Latin America and the Caribbean need a news agency with high professional and technical standards , which is politically and economically independent , and whose aim is to promote justice and peace , ’ says its consortium of supporters . |
| 16 | Many modes of communication may serve the purpose but we will need to , choose one which is personally and socially acceptable , and does not provoke anger , surprise , or obscure the message . |
| 17 | Much of the pain centres upon the LEA ; a structure which was pivotal and which is rapidly and rather messily ceasing to be so . |
| 18 | I spend my holidays in a cottage in Wales which is administratively and legally less distinct from England than Connecticut is from New York State . |
| 19 | The librarian therefore has to choose between software which is readily and easily usable but which is inflexible and software which needs to be " programmed " but which allows the user to tailor the software to the needs of one particular library . |
| 20 | He may well be right ; however , unlettered in the period though I am , I seem to hear fairly clear stylistic connections between it and the 4-Part Mass Pater Creator Omnium , which is securely and explicitly dated in the manuscript to 1546 . |
| 21 | The second thing to say about humorous crime fiction is that you have to reconcile in your pages that sharp difference between crime , which arises from evil , and laughter , which is by and large a manifestation of good . |
| 22 | which is , which is by and large , by and large has broader liberal |
| 23 | The North Shields fishing industry , life in which is interestingly and sympathetically described in Beter Mortimore 's ( 1987 ) The Last of The Hunters , is now pretty much what it was in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 24 | You may find that she will need to lean on you a little for several months to speak and act for her in matters she can not give her full attention to , because she will be quite rightly absorbed for the time being in grieving , which is mentally and emotionally very hard work indeed . |
| 25 | If my withdrawal from separatism had in part to do with feeling unhappy with a surfeit of hatred , which is mentally and spiritually very depleting , it had also to do with how you go about communicating feelings of being cleansed and enlightened . |
| 26 | And this , this other thing as well about erm which is obviously and erm I think what they had in mind was that before you start doing anything radical , before you start having any real land reform at all , you have to ensure that you really have control of that area , he 's had this |
| 27 | erm which should be , you know , enough , but again if there 's a problem then my phone number is on your collection card which is there and I 'll come out and re-stock you as it were |
| 28 | In the event my Lord , erm , that er your Lordship felt that further guidance was required , there are the two routes that I 've indicated to your Lordship briefly yesterday , there is the route of er seeking some information , if your Lordship felt it 'd be of assistance to you in resolving any doubts that you may have from the and your Lordship has seen yesterday the notice on co-operation which is in and at page eleven thirty two and is also the exhibit |
| 29 | Rather than attempting to define the nature of the " humane education " thus envisaged , Leavis merely asserts that " It seems better simply to point to English literature , which is unquestionably and producibly " there " , and to suggest that the " literary tradition " that this unquestionable existence justifies us in speaking of might … be called a vague concept . " |
| 30 | What I see as being Greater York is an area outside the city , it 's the city and an area outside the city , which is socially and economically linked erm with the main urban area , which is primarily , in terms of employment er and other services , the city , now as Mr Thomas quite reasonably suggested erm things change . |