Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] is [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town .
2 At present little or nothing is known about these patients .
3 It is common for the articles of association of a company that is a management buy-out vehicle , a joint venture company , or which is owned by multiple shareholders to provide that the sale of the assets and undertaking of the company requires the consent of specified individuals .
4 Only if an intervention is effective not only in eliminating this factor , but also in transforming the person 's lifestyle such that he or she is removed from this conveyor belt of risk , can the effects of the intervention be expected to be apparent ten or twenty years later .
5 Assessment could then be carried out by another manager who is either more senior or who is removed from direct line management of the candidate .
6 The redemption of the debenture is either refinanced by another debenture issue or it is repaid from any surplus cash .
7 One reason is that the distinction we have made between productive and consumption property is not always maintained , or it is applied in differing ways .
8 The old armour is either worn away gradually , as in crocodiles , or it is shed at special times in a complete ‘ coat ’ , as in lizards and snakes .
9 But what people notice about Anthony is the way he holds his head down , that he 'll hardly ever look you in the eye , and the manner in which he will suddenly turn his whole head away if ever there is disagreement or he is challenged in some way .
10 ‘ With money so tight and nothing is heard from local communities the facility could be lost by stealth .
11 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 ’ .
12 The basis for status may vary : it may he anything a social group claims as giving superiority and which is recognised by other groups — examples might include wealth , religious purity .
13 Exactly and er we are buying er a two seat version of this aeroplane er our two seat version is aimed primarily at operational training but er we have examined er time and again whether we believe the er the integration of the avionics which is possible in this aeroplane and which is planned for this aeroplane er is going to be able to reduce the pilot work load to such an extent that one man can comfortably do the job and we have arrived at the conclusion that he most certainly can .
14 The section relates to any instrument that : ( i ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court made on granting in respect of the parties a decree of divorce , nullity of marriage or judicial separation , or ( ii ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court which is made in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or the parties ' judicial separation and which is made at any time after the granting of such a decree , or ( iii ) is executed at any time in pursuance of an agreement of the parties made in contemplation of or otherwise in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or their judicial separation .
15 Eric Midwinter is quite categoric in his chapter about the discrimination which exists against older people in government appointments to voluntary office and which is applied by voluntary organisations themselves towards their older volunteers .
16 As with perceptrons , the threshold can be replaced by an extra ’ switch ’ called s0 , which is permanently on , and which is connected to each other node i by an arc with weight w0i = -ti .
17 It will also need to be aware that concerns such as these expose a major limitation of the school-controlled model of INSET which Leeds , in common with other LEAs , has adopted , and which is reinforced by current government funding arrangements and LMS .
18 Here , then , we have a stratification system whose strata are defined in terms of ascribed status attributes and which is legitimated by religious values .
19 Other than the later stimulating and substantial growth in Norfolk and Essex , and which is considered in later sections of this chapter , the major encouraging early development for the new District Secretary occurred in Hertfordshire .
20 The approach which is adopted in this book , and which is described in this introductory chapter , is a variety of ‘ contextual ’ approach : it is assumed that the semantic properties of a lexical item are fully reflected in appropriate aspects of the relations it contracts with actual and potential contexts .
21 Where a customer is operating under a trading name you need to know who owns the name and who is trading as that name .
22 We think of a being who shows various emotions towards creation — love , wrath , anger , sorrow , mercy and so on — and who is associated with particular activities that we think of as actions taken by persons , such as judgement .
23 Her international trade negotiations are already hindered by Norway 's attitude to whaling and sealing , and she is blamed for poor results .
24 Trudi Pacter Living Doll ( Grafton ) Very much the Jackie Collins market and she is growing with each new book .
25 The clothes themselves are for children aged nought to six and everything is made in this country , 80 per cent exclusively for Young England .
26 From Lugano it was fine because the winter is always six months and everything is closed in any case , but here the galleries are open the whole year and the museum is easier to get to .
27 At the other extreme we have something like Plato 's system , where the people are given no role at all and everything is left to individual experts , individual administrators , so Plato 's system is at one everything is left to the individuals , participatory democracy
28 Now do n't forget , that I said , that in spite of the fact that he 'd got one shoulder higher than the other , he was very attractive to women , and there is running through this story , the suggestion that maybe he was too friendly with Josephine .
29 The athlete statues of Polykleitos , later in the century , might well stem from this tradition , and he is claimed for both cities .
30 I have also mentioned our desire for cross-screen scrolling of KWIC and the ‘ more context ’ options ( screens £32 , £33 ) and he is to look into that as well .
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