Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] is [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivy better : Coronation Street actress Lynne Perrie , who plays Ivy Brennan , was said to be ‘ slightly improved ’ today in hospital where she is undergoing tests following her collapse on the set of the series three days ago . |
| 2 | Mrs X is at present attending a college where she is studying science , and desperately wishes to take up embalming as a career , but unfortunately this is where the problem begins . |
| 3 | In fact , all a person would need to do in the middle of a Darkfall storm would be to remain calm , not touch anything — unless he or she is wearing gloves and wait for the effect to pass . |
| 4 | In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position . |
| 5 | If there is a dispute between people as to where children should live or who is to have contact with the children then magistrates can make the appropriate residence orders or contact orders . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're not the only one who 's had experience or who is having experience with a possessive father ; it happens to boys , too , you know . ’ |
| 7 | Whilst we do not have clear evidence that heparin confers benefit we do know that where one is administering TPA and aspirin and heparin there is some evidence of an increase in side effects . |
| 8 | Collecting bias seems to be greater for molars than for incisors , not surprising when it is considered that incisors are easier to locate in the pellets than are molars , and so an excess of incisors may be combined with a deficit of molars where there is collecting bias . |
| 9 | A shorter and easier route of ascent may be made from Birkdale Summit , the top of the B6270 road linking Kirkby Stephen and Keld , by making the car do most of the climbing ; the ribbon of tarmac spirals up to almost 1700 feet where there is parking space . |
| 10 | But first there are further instructions about how the Passover is to be celebrated , who may join in , and where it is to take place . |
| 11 | After a detailed survey a large area of stone was removed to the Dorset County Museum where it is given pride of place . |
| 12 | There is a print by Thomas Fawcett dated 1817 , showing the Stocking Market and the Square , where it is said bulls were baited . |
| 13 | Lowthorpe is mentioned four times in the Domesday Book , where it is spelt Logetorp , and in King Edward the Confessor 's time it was valued at the princely sum of eight shillings . |
| 14 | There has been some suggestion that computer trading techniques have been partly responsible for the crash ( or what is called programme trading ) . |
| 15 | When we have a hunch that somebody is telling lies , for instance , ‘ what we really mean is that their body language and their spoken words do not agree . ’ |
| 16 | For example , we have some little children down here that nobody is taking care of . |
| 17 | When she is older I will send the child to a good girls ’ school and see that she is taught English . |
| 18 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 19 | If he considers that she is refusing intercourse unreasonably , his remedy is a matrimonial one . |
| 20 | But even harder to make are decisions about adoption when Marian knows that she is severing families in a permanent way . |
| 21 | And we are delighted that she is marrying Steven , who is so loved/admired by his family and close friends and is respected by all of us for his hard work/talents/skills/ zest for life . |
| 22 | However , where the police or Customs & Excise officers are acting under the authority of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 it is an offence for the practitioner to tell anyone anything regarding their investigation ; even the fact that one is taking place . |
| 23 | Not that one is offering literature as a substitute religion or as providing a philosophy for life . |
| 24 | Studies in which rats have been fed ethanol have suggested that there is reduced ability of hepatocytes to bind to laminin , type I collagen , and fibronectin ; a possible explanation for which is that there is reduced expression or activation of specific receptors for these matrix components . |
| 25 | Studies in which rats have been fed ethanol have suggested that there is reduced ability of hepatocytes to bind to laminin , type I collagen , and fibronectin ; a possible explanation for which is that there is reduced expression or activation of specific receptors for these matrix components . |
| 26 | The middle phase is where this tolerance is progressively lost so that there is decreased control over use and over associated behaviour . |
| 27 | The proportions of elderly people living in households who were neither living alone nor as a couple on their own fell by about half in the period 1961 to 1981 , so there is reduced scope for similar falls to occur in the future . |
| 28 | Standard Chartered in London , understood to have around £300million on loan to Mr Bond , declined to comment , although it is understood executives are confident of the asset backing for most of the exposure . |
| 29 | So , while the Government claims that it is targeting help on those in greatest need , it is simultaneously increasing the numbers caught , in the Government 's terminology , in a ‘ dependency culture ’ . |
| 30 | She pointed out how to deal with a child , for example , who has run away near a busy road : ‘ You should explain to a child that it is creating danger , or is in a dangerous situation . |