Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike a real victim , the interview underdog needs to remember that he or she is also in a position to evaluate . |
| 2 | He or she is well within range and unable to defend him or herself with one or both hands . |
| 3 | Practitioners seem to accept that worthy cases of mercy killing invariably have this outcome , but this informal approach provides the defendant with no legal basis for a defence — he or she is truly at the mercy of the psychiatrists , the prosecutor , and the judge . |
| 4 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 5 | It turns out that if I choose a direction and look at the electron 's spin in relation to that direction then either its axis of rotation points along that direction or it is wholly in the reverse direction . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 7 | And there is still another way of understanding time , which is that when a mother gives birth , she is giving birth to time itself , to a ‘ life-time ’ , and she is thus in some sense beyond time itself . |
| 8 | We have cousins in Provence and she is there at the moment . |
| 9 | She ca n't afford to buy records and books , she can no longer afford the rent on her black-and-white TV , and she is now in debt after paying the final instalment of her poll tax for 1991 . |
| 10 | Thereafter they fend for themselves and she is quickly into preparation for her next litter . |
| 11 | She 's been monitoring my progress , since I 've taken up the job again , and she is far from pleased . |
| 12 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
| 13 | And he is higher up the hill . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean it 's the other way round and he is insanely in love with me , and April is mad with him because he is , and she is madder with me because I 'm not , since that is so insulting to them both . ’ |
| 15 | The idea was not of course original to Wordsworth , but his expression of it is unusually convincing ; and he is ahead of his time in his recognition of the ‘ subconscious mind ’ — this phrase had not yet come into the language , and Wordsworth 's ‘ workings of the spirit ’ — he has many other phrases — are not always seen to refer to this . |
| 16 | BRIGHTON Mark Steel is a comic who should be returned to at irregular intervals : see him too often ( and he is all over London ) and you tire of his south London patter , but go back to his schoolroom lesson after a break from the circuit , or see him off his home patch and you 'll enjoy an exercise bookful of character face-pulling , energetic storytelling and witty , like-it-is observations . |
| 17 | Chapman ( too old and frankly has lost what it takes ) Hodge ( we do n't need any more midfielders and he is still worth a bob or two ) Rod Wallace ( unless he bucks his ideas up ) |
| 18 | And he is still on his feet . |
| 19 | They are lying in a makeshift morgue , wrapped in brown blankets , and he is still at large . |
| 20 | In recent years he has been closely associated with Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts Ltd in Bond Street where his knowledge and connoisseurship are greatly valued and he is still to be found on weekdays in the gallery 's offices . |
| 21 | ‘ Finn Arnason holds Halland for King Svein , but his sight is worse , and he is never at court , although he can still fight on shipboard and the young men respect him . |
| 22 | Although Bob 's command of Serbo-Croat is non-existent and he is only at the early stages of learning Russian the Causevics ' second language — he has enlisted the help of a friend , native Yugoslav Maria Delahunty , to act as an interpreter . |
| 23 | But he is unusual , he is straight , and he is entirely of England . |
| 24 | To Rousseau , non-participatory institutions posed a threat to freedom — ; ‘ man is born free and he is everywhere in chains ’ . |
| 25 | Crilly does not feel alienated by my visits to the Heath , though he confesses to missing me by day and he is usually at home when I return . |
| 26 | His usual duty station at indoor events is manning the door to receive donations or admission money and he is always at Buckhurst Hill station during the morning rush hour on Lifeboat Day . |
| 27 | The hair is like Apollo 's , and it is particularly in the incisive detail of the head that one sees how much one loses in the marble . |
| 28 | The Clouds are of immense importance to astronomers , and it is partly for this reason that many of the great new telescopes are being set up south of the equator , where the Clouds are accessible . |
| 29 | We see her so with Theseus again on a near-contemporary Attic cup ( fig. 98 ) ; and it is presumably in the same role that she dominates the latest and best preserved of all archaic pediments , at the two ends of a temple on Aegina , dedicated to Aphaia , a local deity associated with Artemis rather than Athena . |
| 30 | Of course it grows colder as you move away from the equator , and it is rarely above 5°C at latitudes greater than 50 degrees , north or south . |