Example sentences of "and [is] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's offering ten pounds to anyone who 's prepared to stand in line with a suspect , and is hoping that people of all ages , colours , shapes and sizes will come forward . |
| 2 | A refusal is only effective within its true scope and is vitiated if it is based upon false assumptions . |
| 3 | He stands aside from the path and is warned that he tramples on sown seed . |
| 4 | The ‘ body part ’ reading therefore escapes being given a penalty point , and is accepted as being referentially more successful ( see Carter 1987a for a fuller discussion ) . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment recognises that there can be difficulties with that Act and is considering whether a review would be helpful . |
| 6 | Furthermore , any interest group able to threaten in this way probably has a special relationship with a major political party , and is acknowledged as important in that sense . |
| 7 | In the common case where the act or neglect of the defendant and the injury to the plaintiff are for all practical purposes contemporaneous , the duty attaches to the defendant and is breached when the act or neglect occurs . … |
| 8 | ‘ The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs . |
| 9 | The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs . |
| 10 | The overall cost of capital for a firm is the weighted average cost of these two sources of finance and is calculated as follows : The cost of each source of funds is a function of three components : |
| 11 | The pair in fact decided to work together after Merton added a joke to a skit of Clary 's a few years ago : a man is returning from a holiday in Morocco , and is stopped and questioned by Moroccan customs . |
| 12 | A character who is held fast can not move or fight , and is treated as prone . |
| 13 | The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) . |
| 14 | This is not the artificial ‘ historical Jesus ’ , but the Jesus who was and is seen and trusted as the Christ of God , the Christ of Geschichte rather than the mere Jesus of Historie . |
| 15 | The squad , which will benefit from fitness and training programmes set up by recently appointed British Athletics Olympic National Coach , Frank Dick , is to be coached by former British No. 6 Teresa Catlin , and is seen as being a vehicle that will give youngsters the opportunity to feed through into the Main squad . |
| 16 | Figure 6a illustrates such a mitotic cell in which the normal X is inactive and is seen as being shorter than normal ( the X is normally the fifth longest chromosome ) and darker staining than the other chromosomes . |
| 17 | Whether or not things could be otherwise in a radically different society , as things are , the conviction and punishment of an offender necessarily carries a moral , condemnatory message and is seen as so doing . |
| 18 | Similarly , the notion of independence is stressed and is seen as ‘ essentially an attitude of mind characterized by integrity and an objective approach to work ’ ( para . |
| 19 | Another company has now bought the freeholds and is demanding that the money is paid — in some cases amounting to almost two thousand pounds . |
| 20 | It matters just as much to a person 's education what he learns and is taught as it matters to his salvation what he believes . |
| 21 | AVMD made $846,000 pre-tax in 1988 and is warranted as having net assets of at least $1.15m . |
| 22 | Lamb from New Zealand is usually sold frozen , and is cut while still frozen into cubes , chops and cutlets . |
| 23 | The Booksellers Association , which is not taking a view on this issue because of the differing interests of its membership , says it is nevertheless watching developments closely , and is recommending that booksellers lobby their MPs according to their trading preferences . |
| 24 | He has taken his first steps and is eating and drinking well . |
| 25 | Culture is based on a balance of psychological forces and is threatened if this balance is impaired by losing one of its supports . |
| 26 | The rest of the melted material reaches the surface and is erupted as lava and ashes , building up the narrow chain of volcanoes that runs the whole way up the South American continent . |
| 27 | In every other way , Peter is a fine upright and likeable person ; he is involved in the Church and is liked and respected locally . |
| 28 | The tests showed that if a product which should be cooked at 180°C is deep-fried at the correct temperature to seal it and is cooked as recommended , it will absorb only 6% of its weight in oil . |
| 29 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 30 | Walker , who won the Heisman Trophy for the best college player and is regarded as one of the leading rushers in the NFL , was exchanged for Darrin Nelson ( running back ) , Issiac Holt ( defensive back ) , David Howard and Jesse Solomon ( both linebackers ) and Alex Stewart ( defensive end ) plus a first-round and up to six other draft picks in the next three years . |