Example sentences of "and is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMERICAN born Lisa Price , now living in Llanidloes , has been appointed sales manager for Radio Maldwyn , and is successfully canvassing for advertisers in time for the independent local radio station 's launch on July 1 on 756kHz medium wave . |
| 2 | Professor Wedgewood ( Peter Williams ) leads the first team and is successfully launched into space . |
| 3 | He then twice conspired to overthrow the junta , and is unofficially considered to head the paramilitary death squad , the White Warrior Union . |
| 4 | Implicit information is held in the organisational memory ( for example , the description of office routine ) and is rarely recorded or preserved . |
| 5 | Involvement of the spermatic cord , epididymis , or testis by infection can lead to sterility , but , again , this complication was much more common before the last World War and is rarely seen today . |
| 6 | It is the world 's most expensive and fastest production car and is hugely sought after . |
| 7 | It was converted from a nobleman 's residence situated about two and a half miles north-east of San Gimignano on the way to Certaldo , is surrounded by its own gardens and is tastefully appointed in every aspect . |
| 8 | Cholesterol is a natural substance in the blood and is mostly made from the fat in the food we eat , though the body itself is quite capable of making an adequate supply . |
| 9 | The ‘ primary rate ’ ISDN provides a block of a minimum of 30 lines , and is mostly used by large firms which connect it to a telephone switchboard . |
| 10 | She receives physiotherapy three or four times a week and is regularly visited by the district nurse . |
| 11 | Manson was , and remains to this day , America 's number one bogeyman and is regularly pilloried and looked on in fascination by a world that still ca n't believe such things happened . |
| 12 | It has been much updated and is regularly used by the WI , the youth club , indoor bowls club , and an over 55's club . |
| 13 | This timber is both decorative and durable and is regularly used for high-quality work . |
| 14 | This is called cost effectiveness analysis and is regularly used in defence , public health and other fields . |
| 15 | It is most important that the base of the sieve nest is arranged exactly parallel to the shaker base and is firmly held in position during agitation ( Metz , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | It may also be heavily dependent upon voluntary efforts much of which is only loosely co-ordinated and is marginally subsidized by the public departments . |
| 17 | He played Alan Crabbe , a nineteen-year-old who falls for the older Eileen — played by Nyree Dawn Porter — and is later beaten up by her fiancé . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 19 | The extreme reductionist approach that is represented in the above quotation , and is apparent again and again in his writings , not only in The Origin of Species but in many of his later books , is conspicuous by its absence from early plant ecological texts and is barely represented in the ecological literature until towards the middle of the twentieth century . |
| 20 | 4.2 Past loss comprises special damage and is separately assessed . |
| 21 | ‘ Natasha 's aunt is absolutely happy for her to stay with us and is desperately trying to get some information about her for me . |
| 22 | It applies only to a few high risk processes and is invariably achieved by means of heat . |
| 23 | Nowadays , the U-bend type of trap is known as a P-trap and is invariably made from plastic , as are all the components of a modern waste system . |
| 24 | That difficult situation is made infinitely worse and more galling to colleagues who have been rising repeatedly , question after question , without success , when a Conservative Member swans in , three quarters of the way through Scottish Question Time , and is instantly called . |
| 25 | Forster shows Charlotte as someone who has never known love and is emotionally dried out because of it . |
| 26 | The production compares well with the West End show and is thoroughly recommended . |
| 27 | The thermodynamic data for poly ( A ) , poly ( C ) and poly ( dA ) indicate that the entropic cost per nucleotide in forming an ordered structure , formally involving six rotors ( see Figure 2 ) , has a mean value of -34 ( ±5 ) kJ mol -1 ( TΔS helix at 300 K , averaged over 9 data sets from references [ 8-13 ] ( Table 1 ) , where the error limits equal the range of reported values ) , and is closely balanced by a base stacking exothermicity of -37 ( ±4 ) kJ mol -1 . |
| 28 | The distinction between the Japanese profiles highlights the very marked tendency to reward length of continuous employment in large firms and is closely related to their much higher rates of union membership . |
| 29 | Placement of tonic stress is , therefore , important and is closely linked to intonation . |
| 30 | The mere is the large village pond surrounded on three sides by a dense bank of elm and sycamore , and is closely associated visually with the churchyard . |