Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If something or someone is deliberately hidden from us what does this lead us to expect ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The teacher may lead the discussion or the activity , but he or she is also learning from the students . |
| 6 | He or she is best placed to give you legal advice , and to liaise with the other professional agencies involved . |
| 7 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 8 | Yet he or she is usually limited by lack of resources , lack of accommodation , lack of contact outside the institution and downright sexual repressiveness within from any sexual expression whatever . |
| 9 | If the character moves sideways with the head , body and arms in some way averted from the front , i.e. croisé , possibly with a twist of the shoulders , he or she is usually playing some evil or cunning person . |
| 10 | In most universities , he or she is often called the vice-chancellor — the title " chancellor " being reserved for another notable figure who fills that largely ceremonial and dignified office . |
| 11 | The second problem is that even if a motorist — despite all the odds — actually adheres to the recommended limits , all the evidence points to the fact that he or she is still driving too fast for the safety of local residents . |
| 12 | Tamed instincts may protect the individual from vulnerability to external aggression or from emotional abandonment by one to whom he or she is fully committed in an act of love ; but in the process they also render life experiences flat and stand in the way of necessary instinctual release . |
| 13 | When he or she is perhaps overwhelmed by events , offers of practical help may be exactly what the person could do with , rather than being asked to confront difficult emotional reactions . |
| 14 | ‘ Honda 's fitment of airbags , ahead of its competitors , meets the greatest remaining problem with current seatbelts — that of the driver 's face striking the steering wheel even when he or she is correctly restrained ’ |
| 15 | Where a registered foreign lawyer who would , apart from this rule , be required to pay an annual contribution or special levy , claims , and the Council agrees , that he or she is so covered in respect of dishonesty or failure to account , whether by a compensation fund other than the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund , or by an indemnity fund other than the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund , or by compulsory insurance , that there is a substantial reduction in the risk to the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund in respect of his or her practice in comparison with the risk presented by a solicitor practising in a like manner , the Council may reduce that annual contribution or special levy to such amount as the Council thinks fit or to zero . |
| 16 | He or she is actually trying to exercise power over nurse or mother . |
| 17 | Such a figure is based to some extent on notional accounting — an expert 's time per hour is , for example , assessed at a much higher rate than he or she is actually paid — but it indicates the profit margins which both houses need to maintain . |
| 18 | If the idea originator wishes to proceed , he or she is then asked to prepare a brief , one or two page description , sometimes referred to as an idea memorandum ( IM ) . |
| 19 | He or she is certainly making a commitment to trust God . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) A solicitor who is an officer , member or employee of or who is otherwise working in the practice of a recognised body , or a recognised body which is an officer or member of a recognised body , or a registered foreign lawyer who is a director or member of a recognised body , shall not by any act or omission by himself ( or itself ) or with any other person cause , instigate or connive at any breach of these Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of these Rules or section 9 of the Act and , for the avoidance of doubt , it is confirmed that a solicitor who is an officer , member or employee of or who is otherwise working in the practice of a recognised body remains personally subject to all the rules , principles and requirements of conducting affecting solicitors . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) A solicitor who is an officer , member or employee of or who is otherwise working in the practice of a recognised body , or a recognised body which is an officer or member of a recognised body , or a registered foreign lawyer who is a director or member of a recognised body , shall not by any act or omission by himself ( or itself ) or with any other person cause , instigate or connive at any breach of these Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of these Rules or section 9 of the Act and , for the avoidance of doubt , it is confirmed that a solicitor who is an officer , member or employee of or who is otherwise working in the practice of a recognised body remains personally subject to all the rules , principles and requirements of conducting affecting solicitors . |
| 22 | Any one of us may arrest a person who is , or who is reasonably suspected to be , in the act of committing an ‘ arrestable ’ offence . |
| 23 | 11 Do n't allow yourself to be dominated by the student who always knows , or thinks he knows , the answer or who is always asking you questions or giving his opinion on the state of the world . |
| 24 | For authenticity and sheer pleasure you must visit The Shaker Shop , 25 Harcourt Street , London W1 , where everything is either imported from the remaining Shaker workshops in America or made under licence in this country . |
| 25 | The BAA intends that a qualification scheme will soon be in place , with a graded multi-tier system of certificates available , from Assistant Supervisor ( where one is merely allowed to assist with abseiling a small group down a short drop ) through the Abseil Instructor and Abseil Coach . |
| 26 | It is a happy , friendly house , with a relaxed atmosphere where one is pleasantly greeted with a refreshing cup of tea and home-made biscuits . |
| 27 | If we are to establish how and to what extent routine policing is affected by Northern Ireland 's divisions , it would be useless to base our research where there is only militarized political policing ( even though there are at least formal attempts to try to normalize policing in areas of high tension ) , for it is necessary to explore the extent to which policing in so-called ‘ soft ’ areas is contaminated by wider societal conflicts . |
| 28 | Where there is usually to pop of a toy cannon , there is silence and , come to think of it , I do n't remember hearing the clock strike midnight either . |
| 29 | — which begins and ends with his soliloquies ; and V.vii. , where he is finally chased off by another bastard ) . |
| 30 | The provincial Assembly in Kosovo on May 23 refused the resignation of Jusuf Zejnulahu , the President of the Kosovo Executive Council [ see p. 37382 , where he is incorrectly described as Chairman of the provincial Assembly ] , and of nine other ethnic-Albanian members of his government . |