Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 2 | A child can only be placed under the supervision of a probation officer if the local authority request this and there is already a probation officer working with another member of the household ( Sched 3 , para 9(2) ) . |
| 3 | There is dicta in Vestey v IRC [ 1980 ] STC 6 at 20(g) which indicate that with regard to s739 , the assets should be transferred abroad , but the dicta are not clear and there is probably nothing to prevent the legislation being simply interpreted as applying to transfers from one overseas country to another . |
| 4 | The policies of international aid , which defy rational justification on either economic or strategic grounds , are at once intelligible when viewed as a collective purgation of the fear of envy , to which the ‘ affluent society ’ — itself an envy-guilt coinage — is especially prone and which is more vivid to the donors than the imagined envy is to the recipients . |
| 5 | It will always be hard for the courts to distinguish between what is harmful and what is merely unpleasant or challenging , but it is a task which society must confront for its own good . |
| 6 | She 's always telling me when I do things wrong and she is always right . ’ |
| 7 | Approaching this cosmology , it is natural for an outsider to suppose that the Chinese can think only concretely , after the analogies of breathing or the veins in jade ( a supposition encouraged by misunderstandings of Chinese script as a kind of picture-writing ) , while he thinks abstractly ; that the Chinese are wrong and he is right ( for is not the universe in fact composed of matter obeying the laws of nature ? ) ; that the Chinese are trapped within an unchanging conceptual scheme while he is free to go wherever reason bids . |
| 8 | However , the grain of this behavioural notation is unbelievably coarse and one is often surprised by the extent to which two performances of the same written utterance can differ — even when the actors in question are apparently following the same instruction with respect to intonation , facial expression or manual gesture . |
| 9 | First , non-response was high and it is now known that , as a category , non-respondents are often very different in a number of relevant respects from those who do respond . |
| 10 | To Rousseau , non-participatory institutions posed a threat to freedom — ; ‘ man is born free and he is everywhere in chains ’ . |
| 11 | Not every physical attraction is sexual and there is more to eros than sex . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman is proposing something entirely different , which would certainly be without the law , which is not an advance on 1993 and which is probably impossible . |
| 13 | Fish is very popular and it is still preserved and smoked by traditional methods . |
| 14 | A single service with a unified management structure for on-site , off-site and what is currently special school provision would considerably enhance the professional opportunities of its staff and reduce to a minimum the duplication or even rivalry that exists . |
| 15 | The nature of the act or omission demanded is immaterial and it is also immaterial whether the menaces relate to action to be taken by the person making the demand . |
| 16 | De-differentiation is also present in the postmodernist refusal to separate the author from his or her oeuvre or the audience from the performance ; in the post-modernist transgression of the boundary ( with no doubt greater or lesser success ) between literature and theory , between high and popular culture , between what is properly cultural and what is properly social . |
| 17 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 18 | As explained earlier when describing the model of living and the model for nursing , the 12 ALs are interrelated ; so too the body systems as categorised by the human biologists are interrelated and it is only for the purposes of description and discussion that they are dealt with separately . |
| 19 | There is truth in this but it is also likely that , in a period which Eliot considered to be one of cultural decay before the onset of " barbarism " , he was genuinely sceptical about the importance or permanence of his work . |
| 20 | Evaluation is still rudimentary but it is increasingly accepted that with services as massive and costly as those described we must develop techniques for measuring their impact and comparing the success and failure of different approaches . |
| 21 | He knows he is doing wrong but it is just that , in certain situations of moral dilemma he has to act in ways that involve violence . |
| 22 | It is shown here in antique brown but it is also available in white . |
| 23 | The name is unfamiliar but it is only what its name implies : the capital liabilities that have been discharged , in this case , by repayment of loans . |
| 24 | In poor light , the effect is much less marked but there is still more of the disc visible , particularly if the model is against some background other than the sky . |
| 25 | " At Advanced level in History , the ability to write serviceable English is a prerequisite but it is even less frequently attained . |
| 26 | Again , I have seen it said : this is all very interesting but it is hardly new . |
| 27 | Debt is common among the poor and unemployed but it is certainly not confined to them . |
| 28 | The colour range is amazing and there is generally enough for the hems and sewing on the buttons of one garment on each reel . |
| 29 | Much of the pain centres upon the LEA ; a structure which was pivotal and which is rapidly and rather messily ceasing to be so . |
| 30 | Problems of taste can also arise on the selection of music backgrounds for scenes of domestic life because the mood to be reinforced is more personal and it is all too easy to lapse into embarrassing banality . |