Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would describe the Shoe-gazers as being a bungalow , but they 're in a … slightly empty tower block , where no-one 's particularly interested in living any more . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ All or nothing 's more our style , would n't you say , Robyn ? ’ |
| 3 | If something or someone is deliberately hidden from us what does this lead us to expect ? |
| 4 | An allowance in the nature of an attendance allowance ( or a financial loss allowance ) MAY be paid to a councillor in respect of his attendance at ANY conference or meeting which the council itself considers relates to the interests of the area ( other than one called in respect of a trade or business , or which is wholly or partly political ) . |
| 5 | We do n't know how many inhabitants there are , or which is early closing day , or whether we can see the sea from the windows . |
| 6 | Two novels , for example , which in other respects are very different , Claudio Piersanti 's Charles ( 1986 ) and the first of Aldo Busi 's three novels published to date , Seminar on Youth ( 1988 ) , have this in common : they both veer between an urban setting whose contemporaneity is underlined by its fashionableness and topicality ( Busi ) or which is vaguely futuristic ( Piersanti ) and a rural , provincial past which , though overtaken by the modern world , still remains extraordinarily alive . |
| 7 | The ease with which patients are managed in these settings contrasts with the chaos that commonly ensues when a single anorexia nervosa patient is treated on a general psychiatric or medical ward , where she is either afforded special status or rejected because her illness is seen as self-inflicted . |
| 8 | Her experience is brought to bear in the Crown 's superior restaurant where she is particularly proud of the French cuisine . |
| 9 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 10 | A mother who is living in an environment where she is very isolated and whose general social contacts with neighbours , relatives , and husband are mostly unhappy or antagonistic is likely to behave differently from a mother who generally has pleasant interactions with most people but occasionally experiences some aggressive reactions from her child . |
| 11 | The situation with her husband is one where she is very misunderstood . |
| 12 | Of course , she would die very quickly if she were not to receive intensive and expensive round-the-clock treatment from the staff of the nursing home where she is now a patient . |
| 13 | Where she is now , in whose hands , whether she 's still alive , these are the questions you need to have answered before paying a ransom . ’ |
| 14 | Ms Blaazer has spent 14 years with The Industrial Society , where she is now Senior Consultant . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you have any idea where she is now ? |
| 16 | Jodie Foster , fresh from her triumphs in The Accused ( released on video last month ) , is the only reason to bother , as with Five Corners ( 15 Pathe 13 Oct ) , where she is almost raped again and is carted about , unconscious , by a psychopath . |
| 17 | Mother , on the other head , goes to Bernard of Anlaby Road once a fortnight , where she 's ceremonially washed , lotioned , rollered , dried , combed-out and lacquered for roughly the price of my pansy-brain shampoo . |
| 18 | Oh where she 's here . |
| 19 | Oh , well it 's either that or she 's just ignorant ! |
| 20 | Another symptom is writing numbers or letters backwards — again a common enough thing to do when a child is learning to write , particularly if he or she is left-handed , or perhaps dyslexic ; and probably most absurd of all , children who refer to television characters as real people are showing signs of abuse . |
| 21 | You should be allowed regular contact with your child while he or she is away . |
| 22 | The international customer will be looking for as bolthole for the times he or she is here |
| 23 | Nurse the resident in a position in which he or she is most comfortable , and change that position frequently . |
| 24 | Unlike a real victim , the interview underdog needs to remember that he or she is also in a position to evaluate . |
| 25 | The teacher may lead the discussion or the activity , but he or she is also learning from the students . |
| 26 | The trick here , and in the scores of near-novels that have followed in its wake , is to make the reader , or disciple , imagine that he or she is just as erudite into the bargain : no need to struggle through Dante or The Song of Roland when it is all there in one fat detective story . |
| 27 | He or she is well within range and unable to defend him or herself with one or both hands . |
| 28 | He or she is best placed to give you legal advice , and to liaise with the other professional agencies involved . |
| 29 | If the individual can always predict what will happen after the first drink then he or she is probably not alcoholic and may have no need of a 12 Step recovery programme and therefore can not be said to relapse if occasionally he or she gets drunk . |
| 30 | In the case of a building , the seller may be ignorant : if the seller knew of a risk and sold without disclosure , he or she is probably liable at law , but builders come and builders go , and those who deliberately mislead mostly go . |