Example sentences of "and is [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inability to expectorate and is obliged to swallow any sputum that is raised ; it may taste greasy . |
| 2 | Although companies are not expected to go to unreasonable lengths to accommodate someone who is not able to carry out his job to the full extent , an employer who disregards altogether the possibility of finding you some other position and is unwilling to consider any other form of compromise may be vulnerable to an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 3 | Canizares , 45 , second and fourth on his last two tour outings in the Catalan and Portuguese Opens , is the only player under par on 212 , four under , and is five strokes clear of the field as he attempts to emulate the millionaire feats of Severiano Ballesteros , Jose-Maria Olazabal and Jose Rivero . |
| 4 | This ragged cut , more of a tear , is too far above the node , and is certain to cause unsightly die-back . |
| 5 | The Old Trafford defender collected the last of his 17 caps against Germany in September last year and is certain to play some part against Turkey because of the earlier withdrawal of QPR 's David Bardsley . |
| 6 | Jim Old 's Al Mutahm , recently purchased by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber , finished runner-up to the useful Staunch Friend here last month , and is sure to go close over this more suitable trip . |
| 7 | The study is jointly financed by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Education Trust and is due to report prior to the implementation of the new valuation list in 1990 . |
| 8 | Executing 0.9 instructions per cycle , HyperSparc uses 0.65 micron , two-layer metal CMOS technology , has 1.2m transistors , is taped-out now and is due to sample next month . |
| 9 | The group has organised a trade mission to the New England Environmental Expo 93 exhibition and conference and is anxious to attract more firms to the trip . |
| 10 | The county council accepts the problems and is keen to do all it can to support those authorities er to North and South . |
| 11 | The Middlesbrough society has about 19 members at present and is keen to attract more of every age and beginners especially . |
| 12 | Therefore , IBM has a captive market , and is able to charge two or three times more for software and maintenance than its rivals . |
| 13 | In culturally more refined society , a joke supersedes overt indecency , and is able to satisfy baser instincts in a relatively sophisticated way . |
| 14 | The Solaris version of Unix uses multitasking , multimedia object management facilities and is able to build true client-server applications , which can be exploited by the Model 116 , which transfers eight bits of data in parallel and also performs byte-to-byte handshaking for increased data integrity . |
| 15 | CFS carry an extensive store of spares and is able to supply most needs from stock . |
| 16 | He likes to ask voters if they are ‘ on board ’ and is quick to offer personal help where it seems appropriate . |
| 17 | He may marry you at home , or in a hotel , and is unlikely to refuse second time around weddings . |
| 18 | This programme has nearly been completed and is unlikely to provide any significant levels of grant aid in 1993 . |
| 19 | This is not surprising , and is unlikely to have surprised contemporaries , or in 1008 Æthelred would hardly have issued orders for the raising of a fleet . |
| 20 | This dissipates with weathering , so , if your pool is constructed during late summer and is likely to remain empty throughout the winter , it will ‘ cure ’ itself . |
| 21 | The characteristics and attitudes of people entering the sector as owner/occupiers is considered to be especially important and is likely to mark this small business sector as unique in relation to other sectors . |
| 22 | First , although it may not take very long for a trained and experienced therapist to analyse a transcript using LARSP , the procedure itself is relatively technical and is likely to take some time to learn from scratch ( Connolly 1979 ) . |
| 23 | Reprocessing does nothing to help manage waste from modern reactors ; plutonium fuel is dearer than uranium , and is likely to stay that way . |
| 24 | The court can therefore have regard to the totality of the delay between the date of accrual of the cause of action and the date of issue of the writ , notwithstanding s33(3) ( b ) and ( c ) and is likely to pay particular heed to the length of any delay in first notifying the defendant of the claim against him , even if such delay occurred before the expiry of the limitation period , ( Donovan v Gwentoys Ltd [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 472 ) . |
| 25 | She will carry them around with her , and is likely to prove aggressive if you try to take them away during this phase . |
| 26 | The issue is on offer in this country until Friday of this week and is likely to attract considerable attention from would be UK investors — not least of all because everyone knows what Disneyworld is . |
| 27 | Conversely , if the house is demolished the layout of the park loses its main feature and is likely to become more and more ragged . |
| 28 | However , one can say that a logically inconsistent set of attitudes bears the inevitable seeds of emotional disharmony within the individual and is likely to make effective action impossible by promoting patterns of behaviour which prevent each others ' successful issue . |
| 29 | After 16 minutes Graham Roberts was injured by a tackle for which Perry Groves was booked ( Steve Clarke took over as sweeper , and is likely to have several weeks in which to build on a promising display ) . |
| 30 | AN EARLY Picasso painting , which most of the authoritative books on the artist recorded as lost or destroyed , is to be sold in Paris on 30 November and is likely to fetch one of the highest prices paid for a picture at auction . |