Example sentences of "and [pers pn] is [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Doctors say Jonathan will have a normal life-span and she is worried for the future and what will happen to him after her death .
2 Scottie is very happy in Lancashire and she is patient with the elderly , family dogs .
3 Mr Giles of Grimethorpe Motors has been advertising with us for two years and he is delighted with the results .
4 And he is defiant in the face of critics who say he 's lucky to be selected .
5 He is accountable as a steward of the earth 's resources ; he is accountable for his own particular talents ; and he is accountable for the way in which he acquires and disposes of his wealth .
6 Once a patient is sedated or anaesthetized he is completely unable to care for himself and he is dependent upon the theatre team to ensure his safety .
7 This is Bono … and he is concerned about the health of Ireland !
8 And he is generous to the point where he would be without money himself to help someone .
9 James Tomlinson had a mysterious experience which defied rational explanation and he is resigned to the fact that he will never satisfactorily solve the enigma of the disappearing passenger .
10 And He is unique in the life that he brings .
11 There are no more than about 300 complaints to the Lay Observer each year and it is rare for the Lay Observer to criticize The Law Society 's handling of a complaint .
12 In this extract the hero approaches Stonehenge : Some readers have found the human sacrifice image ‘ juvenile ’ , and it is reminiscent of the general level of The Vale of Esthwaite ; but in Wordsworth 's defence one must point out that everybody believed that Stonehenge had been the scene of human sacrifice , and continued to do so until this century ( see , for instance , Hardy 's Tess of the D'Urbervilles ) .
13 He was the nephew of Wulfhere and it is reminiscent of the political alignments of Wulfhere 's day that the southern Saxons should have supported him against Hlothhere .
14 With respect , however , to overseas trading transactions it is clear from the obiter in the case of Lord Chetwood ( see p687 ) and it is implicit in the case of Latilla v IRC ( 1943 ) 25 TC 107 and the obiter in IRC v Frere ( 1964 ) 42 TC 125 that one looks to the net trading income .
15 The charge for preparing a Change Of Name Deed can range from £25 to £75 and it is legal for the child 's mother to do this .
16 Beauty is there thronging before the eyes in the intangible world and it is multitudinous as the photons that burst on our eyes ' lenses .
17 This was useful information for any lord and it is indicative of the confused and turbulent state of south-west France that the Plantagenet regime had not recorded its tenurial condition before 1273 .
18 ‘ But it is great for the yard that the horse has won the National , and it is great for the lads . ’
19 The second , perhaps more important , issue takes us back to points discussed in chapters 1 and 2 , and it is relevant to the work reported in chapter .
20 They are grossly offensive to me and many other disabled people , and it is symptomatic of the gap that usually exists between the consciousness of the able-bodied staff of many disability organisations and the disabled people they are supposed to serve .
21 She lets them come and go as they please and it is good for the crew .
22 ‘ It is good for the passengers to have a choice of airlines and it is good for the airlines themselves to have to respond and innovate .
23 In short , the value of history as a school subject must be constantly and publicly argued because : ( 1 ) history may lose out in any modification to the National Curriculum ; ( 2 ) in the implementation of the existing national curriculum it may be marginalised in the scramble for resources and timetable space ; ( 3 ) a rigorous projection of the value of the subject is important to the well-being of the school in the face of competition from other schools and possible closure ; ( 4 ) students have a choice at Key Stage 4 and in the sixth form and it is essential for the integrity of the subject that single-subject history should have a good representation at both levels ; ( 5 ) above all history has much to offer to the student of the 1990s .
24 ‘ There is only one way ’ , he says to Frodo , and it is essential to the story that this should be accepted as true : the Ring can not be kept , it has power over everybody , it has to be destroyed .
25 It does not believe that all parents have been informed of their rights under the Act and it is critical of the lack of training for parent governors .
26 It is her father 's field , and it is pregnant with the harvest .
27 I assure him that the money spent on the health reforms will lead to greater efficiencies and savings — its purpose is to improve patient care and to increase the number of patients treated — and it is extra to the maintenance programme .
28 There is a banker paying out money , and it is possible for the two players to link arms and laugh all the way to the bank .
29 Under some conditions the determination of a strip number is very sensitive to movement of the test card , and it is possible for the announced approximate edge to lie in either of the two edge strips on either side .
30 This may , in fact , already be the position as far as executive directors are concerned , in that they are employees and it is usual for the court to imply a term in employment contracts to the effect that employees will carry out their duties with reasonable care and skill .
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