Example sentences of "and [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 6 , in a GPC debate broadcast by Libyan television , Kadhafi heard from a delegate who claimed that Libya faced a great problem because of the large number of people who had switched from production to retailing , alleging that prices had risen four- or five-fold " and everyone is complaining " . |
| 2 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |
| 3 | And everyone is trying to take away my possessions , ’ she says , referring to the original benefactors of the Illingworth will . |
| 4 | I was worried about that and er I think that 's because it 's a German system and everyone is assumed to be over six feet anyway or six feet wide or something . |
| 5 | It falls on Thursday ; and everyone is hoping that interest rates do so , too — by another full point to 7% . |
| 6 | Listeners calling the talk line can chose the subject of their choice , and everyone is offered a Tampax Teen Talk Kit which includes a booklet for mum , called ‘ Between Ourselves ’ . |
| 7 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 8 | Diana , for instance , is quoted as saying : ‘ I just love it when I arrive somewhere and everyone is waiting with their tongues hanging out . ’ |
| 9 | Morale among the British troops is good and everyone is waiting to see what will happen . |
| 10 | However , if you are with a group and everyone is laughing , it might put a damper on things if you remained tight-lipped and poker-faced . |
| 11 | I 'm an old man , and everyone is dying around me . |
| 12 | A shortage of people competent in mathematics , science and technology is thought to justify inclusion of these subjects in the ‘ core ’ , and everyone is to learn a foreign language . |
| 13 | Clockwatching has no place and everyone is expected to work as long as is necessary to do the job — and to do so without complaint . |
| 14 | ALREADY We have n't even started , and everyone is talking about TODAY 's Cellulite Roadshow . |
| 15 | They , or something like them , are admirable and important and we must strive to make them political realities , but they are not in themselves law and nothing is gained by pretending that they are law . |
| 16 | This is a question to be considered in the round , and nothing is gained by the introduction of shifting burdens of proof , which serves only to break down into formal steps what is in reality a single appreciation of what is or is not unfair . |
| 17 | Further , while there are indeed token-reflexive or self-referring expressions in natural languages , as in ( 12 ) and , arguably , in ( 13 ) ( see Chapter 5 ) : ( 12 ) This sentence contains five words ( 13 ) I hereby apologize these pose formidable problems for logical analysis , and nothing is gained by assimilating indexicals to token-reflexives if this can possibly be avoided . |
| 18 | ‘ With money so tight and nothing is heard from local communities the facility could be lost by stealth . |
| 19 | Thus a field can influence another field and nothing is transferred into or out through the cell membrane . |
| 20 | However , as a result of my 23 years in teaching , I know that people like that remain in post and nothing is done about it . |
| 21 | Business and employers organizations are well represented in parliament their secret funding of the Tory Party buys them influence and Tory Party policies , and nothing is said . |
| 22 | This book is about childhood , a time when only the surroundings show , and nothing is explained . |
| 23 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 24 | And nothing is going to stop me singing Margarita tonight ! ’ |
| 25 | He does n't let anything happen by chance , and nothing is wasted during preparation , checking the course , the driving range , chipping and putting and checking equipment . |
| 26 | ‘ One reason is that linen is an ecologically sound product and nothing is wasted from the plant . |
| 27 | Donald is reputed to have fled to the ( Western ) Isles , and nothing is known of him during the reigns of Macbeth and Malcolm III . |
| 28 | The problem is that with the advent of the ‘ promo ’ clip and the likes of MTV producing vast amounts of programming built around it , pop programming has become synonymous with music video , and no-one is going to pay you a lot of money for that , even if your programme ( like ours ) originates its own material . |
| 29 | Specifically , men must wear a collar and tie and no-one is allowed to wear denims or trainers at work . |
| 30 | Enter by the porter 's lodge ; if no one is there go to the door in the first courtyard on the left and someone is bound to come to your aid . |