Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Authors should never be held responsible for their publishers ' blurbs , and so one is spared the embarrassment of assessing the claim that Hugh Trevor-Roper is ‘ Britain 's greatest living historian ’ . |
| 2 | It is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it which is the consent of the majority or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body , one community which the consent of every individual that united into it agreed that it should and so everyone is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority . |
| 3 | In another area it may be that all the fast food shops are all close to each other and so there is bound to be a congestion when the pubs empty . |
| 4 | But Adorno assumes that ‘ the process of internalization , to which great music as a self-deliverance from the external world of objects owes its very origin , is not revocable in the concept of musical practice ’ ( ibid : 133 ) , and so he is bound to consider the ‘ functionalism ’ of popular music as regressive , explaining it by reference to social-psychological defects . |
| 5 | Suspicion may rest on him : and so he is suspended until he is cleared of it . |
| 6 | His employers consider homosexuality a ‘ security threat ’ , and so he is interviewed here under a pseudonym . |
| 7 | And so it is planned to continue , year by year , until the entire national curriculum is in place by the end of 1997 . |
| 8 | IR radiation with wavelengths between 5 and 15 m is sensed as heat and so it is called the thermal infrared region . |
| 9 | The worry is that the jury can not be made to abide by directions of this kind , and so it is alleged that , if no evidential weight attaches to the refusal to answer , it would be better to exclude it altogether than to run the risk . |
| 10 | The blood of childbirth and menstruation , which follows a passive and unstoppable cycle , can be construed ( by the powers that be ) to fall within this category , and so it is required that cultural regulation step in with restrictive legislation . |
| 11 | Many of these plateaus have anomalous crustal thicknesses of between 20 and 40 km and an upper layer 10 to 15 km thick with P-wave velocities in the range 6.0–6.3 km s-h These values are in the range of granitic rocks in the continental crust and so it is inferred that many oceanic plateaus ( such as the Seychelles Bank ) are drowned continental fragments originating from the edges of ancient land masses and destined to be swept towards a subduction zone in the future . |
| 12 | One or two police forces are experimenting with notebook computers , and perhaps it is intended that they will receive information from the control computer . |
| 13 | It is not possible to predict the types of security interests that will be created in the future and requiring registration of some such unforeseen interests could be unnecessarily burdensome ; even with respect to the known types of legal charge , particularly those conferring the right to possession , it would produce overkill ; and lastly it is claimed that to require the registration of all charges could dry up certain types of secured borrowing . |
| 14 | He knows better than that , and anyway he is rumoured to be paying the Italian genius a lot of money for his one-box design vision that forms part of BMW 's long-rumoured MPV programme . |
| 15 | A judge or judges may reach a decision for a variety of reasons but the judgment must be presented in a form that is acceptable to the legal profession and thus it is cast in the form of a discussion of previous similar cases and relevant statutes . |
| 16 | In addition , they have extended our understanding of the nature of portfolio risk and exactly what is achieved by diversification . |
| 17 | And finally it is divided in such a way that the learner hears only one of the speakers and supplies the responses for the other . |
| 18 | Next morning , the countryside was heavy and sullen like a house where a dreadful quarrel has taken place and still nothing is resolved . |
| 19 | After it has killed one or more rabbits it will have to come to terms with its duties and thereafter it is fitted with a muzzle . |
| 20 | She added : ‘ I put my life and my memories into this house and now everything is gone . |
| 21 | The establishment of a National Curriculum has certainly been a major historical movement , but it is not the case that nothing was defined prior to 1988 and now everything is defined . |
| 22 | ‘ And now it is gone , all gone … the communists have thrown in the sponge and left us bouncing around in the ring looking for an opponent . |
| 23 | Ian Wardle , of the help agency Lifeline , has seen the drug explode onto the Manchester rave scene and now it is known to have reached Scotland and Humberside . |
| 24 | But the public took to this comedy of two sisters going it alone while their husbands are in prison , and now it is watched by an estimated 12m viewers . |
| 25 | But he could do little for them ; and now he is gone . ’ |
| 26 | There is a highly respected politician who has done honourable service in that most sobering of posts , the Northern Ireland Office , and now he is expected to play Father Christmas , with a lovely sack of surprise goodies to dispense to good children . |
| 27 | I am like unto a leper here with all faces turned against me except your kind friend Miss Blagden and now she is gone too . |
| 28 | ‘ All those cosy pictures of the family around the fire , all that stiff upper lip during the war — and now she is determined not to see all her work go down the drain . ’ |
| 29 | The government , therefore , aims to avoid circumstances that are likely to unite all these opposition forces against it , and here it is helped by the practicalities of the situation . |
| 30 | Only Shotover , a Shavian figure seeking a ‘ mind ray ’ that will destroy his enemies , tries to unite wisdom and power ; and even he is revealed at the last as a rum-soaked old poseur . |