Example sentences of "and [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ With money so tight and nothing is heard from local communities the facility could be lost by stealth . |
| 9 | Thus a field can influence another field and nothing is transferred into or out through the cell membrane . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This book is about childhood , a time when only the surroundings show , and nothing is explained . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ One reason is that linen is an ecologically sound product and nothing is wasted from the plant . |
| 15 | Donald is reputed to have fled to the ( Western ) Isles , and nothing is known of him during the reigns of Macbeth and Malcolm III . |
| 16 | Specifically , men must wear a collar and tie and no-one is allowed to wear denims or trainers at work . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A rumour circulates and someone is shuffled off to some distant department . |
| 19 | They take a trip in a ‘ means of communication ’ to the limits of language at the ultra-violet end of the verbal spectrum , and Someone is fuelled by the ‘ internal combustion ’ of words ( 22/218,51/247 ) . |
| 20 | If one of these machines is defective and someone is injured as a result , then the importer/distributor will be liable under the Act , apart from any remedies available against him under contract . |
| 21 | Naturally , it is almost duty to bring with bad news a panacea , and his is bottled as ‘ knowhow ’ . |
| 22 | The European programme is , like the US Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile ( GOSIP ) effort , mandatory , and its is expected that most government buyers will follow the guidelines because they will have to give and explain reasons for non-standard purchases . |
| 23 | This life force , which integrates the physical , emotional and mental aspects of the individual , and which is equated here with some part of the spiritual plane , is seen as underlying the whole complex , interlinking and interrelated fabric which is life on this planet . |
| 24 | A mutation that became popular in Victorian times was called the ‘ Moss Rose ’ because of a minute thorny , moss-like growth that forms on and around the bud scales , in some cases very heavily , and which is coloured . |
| 25 | This orbit intersects the top face of the box B in two points , one of which lies to the left of the stable manifold of the origin and which is represented by the doubly infinite sequence ( with mark ) … |
| 26 | I would suggest that a sexual problem might best be defined as an obstacle to the satisfaction of sexual need — that need which arises in us partly from innate instinct and urge , partly from the circumstances of any given time , and which is tempered by our personal upbringing and development , our moral outlook and the social norms to which we subscribe . |
| 27 | Again , an extra quango would n't be needed and er he 's probably aware of that there is a develo er there is a group of er of er various regulators who erm who operate under the acronym finn F I double N N and which is referred to er in the fact that I think the chancellor made some announcement about it . |
| 28 | Most work situations provide people with a social network that is often taken entirely for granted , and which is missed only after retirement . |
| 29 | In the first legal definition , in the Crofter 's Holdings ( Scotland ) Act of 1886 , it was added that he resides on his holding , the annual rent of which does not exceed £30 in money , and which is situated in a ‘ crofting parish ’ . |
| 30 | That date is especially important for those Japanese cars built on what Levy described as ‘ the Japanese aircraft carrier that is the UK , and which is pointed towards continental Europe ’ . |