Example sentences of "and [pers pn] is [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He makes more mess in his bedroom than she does and his is because , not only is it all papers and books and toys and everything else , it 's all his clothes as well . |
| 2 | Seeing this stranger among the gleaners Boaz asks his foreman about Ruth , and she is as we 've mentioned , she , he talks about her diligence , about her respectful ways , about her , her consideration for other and Boaz offers to her , three things , he offers to her guidance he says , do n't go anywhere else , you stay here . |
| 3 | I have had the opportunity of discussing that with President Bush on a number of occasions , and he is as committed to a speedy conclusion of the Uruguay round as we are . |
| 4 | According to the hylemorphic theory of the scholastics , each individual thing or substance is a combination of ‘ matter ’ ( hyle ) and ‘ form ’ ( morphe ) , and it is because something has the form it has , that it is the kind of thing it is . |
| 5 | The larvae of ichneumid wasps are parasitic on the developmental stages of insects or spiders , which egg laying females locate by searching narrowly circumscribed micro-habitats ; they are as much niche-specific as host-specific , and it is because there is such a range of niches in a garden that there are so many kinds of adult wasps . |
| 6 | And it is because the new humanity is made up of free men and women that God wishes that all should be saved : his delay in invading the world and bringing an end to history is to allow time for the new humanity to supplant the old . |
| 7 | But exploitation produces conflict and it is because of the conflict inherent in each stage of development that history is the unfolding of a drama in which we move from one kind of society to another and which ultimately leads to socialism . |
| 8 | Each user does things in their own particular way and it is because of this flexibility that the spreadsheet program has achieved such widespread success . |
| 9 | And it is because of this that Barthes treats the theme of castration as a metaphorical comment on the absence of the full reality which a naive view of literature might imagine it to derive from . |
| 10 | That is not the case — and it is because it is not the case that we are making progress in the way that we are . |
| 11 | The view of Flaxton is that the greenbelt should be kept tight round the urban area of York city , and it is because of that view that we think whether there is a need for a new settlement depends basically on the numbers game into which we can not go . |
| 12 | These documents appear to be expanding in length daily , but the principal provisions tend to remain constant , and it is because of this that I have felt able to expound a series of amendments which I believe a commercial conveyancer should have in mind in considering the draft documentation . |
| 13 | Because , you know , it , it 's cheaper to run your vehicles on low sulphur diesel , and it is because you do n't get the deterioration in it , and it 's better for the , it 's better for the atmosphere . |
| 14 | And it is because we have obligations that we can claim to have rights . |
| 15 | Erm , and it turns out they 're all from T G I and it is because we got Richard as manager . |
| 16 | As well as a rug he takes a book , author and title unspecified ; the eternal traveller is also the eternal student , and it is as ‘ the student ’ that Verkhovensky first appears in the manuscript drafts . |