Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pers pn] 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 | She 's always telling me when I do things wrong and she is always right . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To Rousseau , non-participatory institutions posed a threat to freedom — ; ‘ man is born free and he is everywhere in chains ’ . |
| 6 | Fish is very popular and it is still preserved and smoked by traditional methods . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is shown here in antique brown but it is also available in white . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | " At Advanced level in History , the ability to write serviceable English is a prerequisite but it is even less frequently attained . |
| 16 | Again , I have seen it said : this is all very interesting but it is hardly new . |
| 17 | Debt is common among the poor and unemployed but it is certainly not confined to them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These figures are typical and it is therefore evident that the service is not only meeting , but exceeding national standards . |
| 20 | Although some NMR studies have shown that it is possible to bind two actinomycin molecules to the tetranucleotide GCGC [ 29 ] , binding of the second molecule is highly anticooperative and it is generally believed that the exclusion site size for actinomycin , under normal conditions , is at least 4 base pairs [ 1 ] . |
| 21 | Notice that the parameter count is 10 and it is consequently specified in the " alternative " way . |
| 22 | ’ Alas ’ , she wrote , ‘ my power is , in this respect , very limited and it is surely the Emperor who is all powerful in this domain ( working for peace ) . |
| 23 | The tips of the radial shields are sometimes visible and it is usually possible to see the extent of the shields beneath the disk scales . |
| 24 | This is covered by David Robinson in Chapter 7 and it is only necessary here to emphasise the need for some of the partners ( and to a lesser extent senior managers ) to allocate time to financial control and administration . |
| 25 | This may sound far-fetched but it is surely worth considering as a co-operative European venture . |
| 26 | Scrutiny of EC legislation is not perfect but it is far better than in all other Parliaments in Europe , except the Folketing in Denmark . |
| 27 | Whether or not the purchase price is an appropriate or indeed adequate upper limit is arguable but it is only in rare circumstances that a vendor will agree to a higher limit . |
| 28 | The rigidity of the Seayak is noticeable but it is still a plastic boat and therefore slow and fairly cumbersome . |
| 29 | Business planning is not easy but it is undoubtedly worthwhile . |
| 30 | This may sound rather ominous but it is simply one of those periods when adverse planetary activity calls for a tighter grip on the purse-strings . |