Example sentences of "and [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abyss between us and them is even greater , whether or not they are ‘ on our side ’ . |
| 2 | Water to you and me is so ordinary . |
| 3 | ‘ I never forget a face , ’ said Jackie Tiptoe , ‘ and yours is definitely familiar . ’ |
| 4 | Annette Boyle has been promoted to catering manager to spearhead this exciting venture and she is already working closely with the Texaco facilities management team to ensure the move , currently scheduled for January , is as smooth as possible . |
| 5 | Firstly HILDA LODGE whom you met before when she became our Vice Chairman in 1981 has now changed her hat to become the Chairman and she is already busy in her new role , well supported by the Executive Committee which now has four new members following the elections of earlier this year — so please meet : — |
| 6 | Her 1.7m draft keel is a great boon for shoal draft cruising , and she is otherwise well equipped above and below deck , always well maintained , she is seriously for sale at a sensible price . |
| 7 | Then she has been infantilised and she is no longer autonomous . |
| 8 | And she is engagingly old-fashioned in her concepts . |
| 9 | And she is engagingly old-fashioned in her concepts . |
| 10 | ‘ Her Majesty 's condition is comfortable , and she is presently sleeping . |
| 11 | One said : ‘ By saying what she has said , one can only draw the conclusion that she turned to the Queen and the Duke because her marriage is in trouble and she is desperately unhappy . |
| 12 | I think in her day people were more reserved , and she is rather proud . ’ |
| 13 | It 's a load of children around the piano , and one little girl is mixed race , and she is stunningly beautiful , and I think : what 's some old guy playing the piano surrounded by beautiful half-dressed little children got to do with Abbey National ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Not only may she give birth to as many as nine babies at a time , but she may have as many as seventeen litters in a breeding season and she is thus capable of producing a hundred and fifty young a year . |
| 16 | And she is wholly believed because of that . |
| 17 | Demeter 's symbol is the ear of corn and she is also linked to the bee in Classical literature , due to her industrious nature and nourishing function . |
| 18 | We know that Roz 's new book on ‘ tensions ’ , which you have all been waiting for , is about to be published and she is also working on another booklet of machine knitting trims . |
| 19 | Mrs Smith comes home from school four times during the day to make sure her mother is all right and she is also usually up three or four times in the night to attend to her mother . |
| 20 | And she is also supporting vets who have set up a MASH-style medical unit for injured horses . |
| 21 | Here , by contrast , it is Charlotte Brontë who is the implied subject of " encouraged " ; and she is also the grammatical subject of the sentence . |
| 22 | An hour into conversation and she is just starting to warm up . |
| 23 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 24 | The morning fire should be re-kindled from the back-log of the previous day : a smart blow with the poker to break off its embers , small kindling on top of these , a puff with the bellows or breath and she is away . |
| 25 | Shirley has a seventeen-year-old daughter whose ambition is to be a photographic model , and she is forever thrusting glossy pictures of this well-developed young hussy , crammed into skimpy swimsuits or revealing underwear , under Vic 's nose . |
| 26 | The soloist is brilliant , and she is superbly accompanied by Sandor Vegh , who gets vitally responsive playing from the orchestra , with no feeling of hurry or strain . |
| 27 | At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent , and she is only just in time with the sick bag . |
| 28 | Housewife Vanessa MacMahon , 38 , whose three-year-old daughter Katharine has leukaemia , said : ‘ You can phone Katharine 's doctor at any time with any problem and she is only too glad to help . |
| 29 | The poor book entry for 1783 helpfully gives us her age as 48 , and she is variously described as living at ‘ Coniger ’ , ‘ Cowards Batch ’ and ‘ Nail Street ’ — all within the Trinity area . |
| 30 | Novelist Graham Roos , 26 , who has known Antonia for eight years , said : ‘ She comes from a cosmopolitan background and she is quite sophisticated . |