Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginning with the industrial and commercial sector ( in Figure 1.2 we simply call this sector ‘ firms ’ ) , these firms are paying out in each period ( a year ) £13,500 million which is largely wages and salaries to employees . |
| 2 | At the moment of consummation , Philip shouts aloud the word ‘ Joy ’ , which is both exclamation and apostrophe . |
| 3 | It tends to be a time-consuming transformation process which is both management and resource intensive , and is more expensive than invention . |
| 4 | They picked the mauve one which is probably currants and the other one was raisin . |
| 5 | Campaigners point to neighbouring Clwyd 's charge which is only £5-a-week and other counties who have not introduced any charges . |
| 6 | She is both martinet and mother hen . |
| 7 | She is both martinet and mother hen . |
| 8 | Uppermost among them will be how they begin to devise a strategy to defeat a man who is both boxer and puncher . |
| 9 | Within that evolving framework there is both complexity and variety , for change involves both redundancy as well as novelty , and each region was subject to different pressures stemming from its past and its neighbours . |
| 10 | And therefore I think that there is both progress and regression . |
| 11 | ‘ At meals there is both restraint and royal bounty ; moderate drinking prevails without excess , yet those who hunger will never complain of frugality . |
| 12 | These hornitos , which are also known rather aptly as driblet cones , go on growing as long as there is both gas and lava to feed them , and they may reach a height of many metres . |
| 13 | ‘ These provincial councils were meant to act as part of central council within their own area , but they have grown more independent and now we have a situation where there is both competition and conflict between them and a reluctance to accept the authority of central council . ’ |
| 14 | An incompetent head is one who fails to master the task of reconciling a management plan with a financial plan , who fails to communicate and to ensure enough understanding for the financial plan with his or her teacher colleagues and who is unable to engage with governors at a level where there is both trust and understanding . |
| 15 | There is both comfort and danger in this . |
| 16 | Lord Ross added : ‘ This appears to me to emphasise that there is both importance and difficulty in this action which would make it appropriate for the action to be heard in the Court of Session as the supreme court rather than in the sheriff court . |
| 17 | In the scriptural usage of that term there is both continuity and discontinuity with that wider understanding . |
| 18 | There is both value and cost to a relationship . |
| 19 | It is , it is but what 's there is just saucepans and things . |
| 20 | Of course there is also pantomime and now in a museum ! |
| 21 | All the clarity and detail which Griffith managed to find is there , but there is also body and warmth which one remembers from the original 78s . |
| 22 | But there is also envy and fear of where you have been and what you have done . ’ |
| 23 | There is also minigolf and a driving range . |
| 24 | And it is with the statistical evaluation of leys that there is most controversy and where much work still needs doing . |
| 25 | But no one gets up after death — there is no applause — there is only silence and some second-hand clothes , and that 's — death — ( And he pushes the blade in up to the hilt . |
| 26 | Mr Kinnock 's job at conference must be to demonstrate Labour 's electability by confirming the party 's new revisionism , by reassuring voters on issues where there is still doubt and , above all , by helping set the agenda for the 1990s . |
| 27 | That would explain why there is still war and death . ’ |
| 28 | There is still confusion and doubt and guilt and angst , but there 's nothing small-town or one-dimensional about it any more . |
| 29 | Those , and there are many , who believe that there is certainly value and truth in Christian belief , but are unhappy about what they feel to be an arrogant and intolerant insistence on the uniqueness of Jesus Christ , still commonly seek to follow the trail blazed by Rousseau . |
| 30 | Oh I accept there is obviously concern and I will try and meet that when I introduce a package of measures at the end of November in the normal uprating statement to help those on lowest incomes who are affected by this . |