Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vision that is 5 per cent as good as yours or mine is very much worth having in comparison with no vision at all . |
| 2 | ‘ But an envoy is an option that President Clinton has mentioned to me and it is probably one he would look at in the event of the talks not being resumed . |
| 3 | The hare and the hatter also decide to put the poor little dormouse into the teapot , which is rather cruel because he did n't do anything to them and it is rather a strange thing for his companions to do . |
| 4 | There is nothing alarming or unusual about methodological problems ; all sciences have them and it is quite common for the questions that people ask to run ahead of the techniques available for answering them . |
| 5 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 6 | Small wonder our society is so schizophrenic — because the minute the clerk walks out of the store , she or he is immediately bombarded with messages which are in total contradiction to those they receive as employees . |
| 7 | If you have n't got any issue but parents or fore brother or sister or the issue of that say it 's your nephews or nieces and you 've still got a spouse of course , she still is n't get She or he is still not going to get the whole lot . |
| 8 | If we want to influence another person and that person is working under enormous stress and is irritated by our request , we can stand back and wait until she or he is more relaxed . |
| 9 | If the aim of judicial review is seen as being only the protection of individuals ( whether people or organizations ) , this would suggest and justify standing rules which require the applicant to show that he , she or it is specially affected by what has been done or decided . |
| 10 | Water to you and me is so ordinary . |
| 11 | Jeremy is coming with me but he is too young to do this alone , and in any case I 'm the only one who can deploy O'Brien . ’ |
| 12 | The fact that the public law applicant is usually challenging the exercise of a discretionary power does not mean that what is at stake for him or her is any less important than the sort of interests protected by private law . |
| 13 | The model is his picture of what is going on outside him and it is essentially an hypothesis based on the available evidence . |
| 14 | ‘ He was very close to her and he is very , very upset as you would expect , ’ a family spokesman said . |
| 15 | He or she is best placed to give you legal advice , and to liaise with the other professional agencies involved . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You should be allowed regular contact with your child while he or she is away . |
| 20 | Nurse the resident in a position in which he or she is most comfortable , and change that position frequently . |
| 21 | The international customer will be looking for as bolthole for the times he or she is here |
| 22 | He or she is well within range and unable to defend him or herself with one or both hands . |
| 23 | Unlike a real victim , the interview underdog needs to remember that he or she is also in a position to evaluate . |
| 24 | The teacher may lead the discussion or the activity , but he or she is also learning from the students . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Do not leave the purchaser until he or she is completely satisfied with the demonstration . |
| 27 | Like the characters and indeed the reader he or she is simply a collection of codes : ‘ The ‘ I ’ which approaches the text is already itself a plurality of other texts , of codes which are infinite , or more precisely , lost ( whose origin is lost ) ’ ( p. 10 ) . |
| 28 | He or she is certainly making a commitment to trust God . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |