Example sentences of "and [pers pn] is [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she is using the 20th-Century surgeon 's art to turn herself into a living version of classical beauties painted by the Old Masters , from Greek goddesses to the Mona Lisa . |
| 2 | ‘ She does n't like me , and she is using the rules of the game as an excuse for not speaking . |
| 3 | ‘ Lord , there is one ruler over all the known worlds , and he is called the Emperor . |
| 4 | Bill rates Ayr , along with Ascot , Newmarket and York , as one of his favourite tracks and he is eyeing the Ayr Gold Cup next Saturday as a possible target for his consistent Big Hand . |
| 5 | Tod is conducting a long argument , and he is telling the truth , but the invisible people who might hear and judge luckily refuse to believe him and turn away in silence , weariness and disgust . |
| 6 | He is working on a scheme with the National Federation of WI to organise a competition to celebrate next year 's 75th anniversary by offering 10 telecottages as prizes for its 9,000 branches and he is hoping the WI will establish a pilot telecottage near its college in Denman , Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | ‘ He is a genuine medal hope and he is representing the people of Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 8 | Hugh will be accompanied by a 30-foot safety boat , and he is making the journey , which he estimates will take him about ten hours , in a standard sea kayak , and he is due in around 4.30 this afternoon . |
| 9 | Wilkinson was in poor spirits after losing both his matches in the recent Davis Cup match with Hungary in Budapest , on clay , but the grass court season has given him renewed zest and he is playing the best tennis of his career . |
| 10 | Boltanski photographed each of 143 pupils when he visited London in September and he is testing the way in which art is created by its context by also sending the portraits to the pupils ' parents in return for the fee which would have been charged by the school photographer . |
| 11 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |
| 12 | SCOTVEC considers the validation of courses and units to be a vital element in maintaining confidence in its new advanced awards and it is monitoring the process closely . |
| 13 | This , incidentally , is the fifteenth in the series of great centenaries , held under the auspices of the Centre for Continuing Education , and it is to celebrate the death , and by that token the life and achievements , of the great English poet John Milton , who died in erm sixteen seventy four . |
| 14 | And it is exposing the region 's old nationalisms , which in the past have been crushed by force . |
| 15 | And it is costing the company another £16 million to repair the damage to the 1,000 kiosks plundered . |
| 16 | BA technical experts have already carried out an inspection and it is believed the east Belfast airport is upgrading facilities to deal with an extra 100,000 passengers next year . |
| 17 | They will be open to the public from the end of 1993 , and it is hoped the local farming community will benefit from demonstrations at the farms . |
| 18 | The last time such powers were used was to keep hippies away from Stonehenge and it is hoped the move will deter travellers from trying to camp at Castlemorton again . |
| 19 | The unit is to return to Darlington next year for further checks and it is hoped the scheme will be extended to younger women in the future . |
| 20 | There is a consideration on one side , and it is said the consideration on the other is the agreement itself : if that were so there could never be a nudum pactum . |
| 21 | Quantum Corp , Milpitas does not believe its disk drives infringe Rodime Plc patents and it is counter-suing the Scottish company , asking the US Court for the District of Minnesota to declare the patent not infringed and anyway unenforceable . |
| 22 | You can derive an enormous amount of satisfaction from restoring old frames and returning them to their former glory , and it is astonishing the number of attractive frames that are discarded when someone changes the colour scheme of their home or sorts through their attic and throws out something that is battered but still beautiful . |
| 23 | Er , next is resolution seven which is an ordinary resolution set out in the notice of the meeting , and it is to authorize the directors to amend the company 's employee share schemes in the manner set out in the circular dated eighteenth of April nineteen ninety to members of the company . |
| 24 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
| 25 | We prefer OS/2 , because it 's a better operating system , and it is becoming the preferred choice for large commercial users , but Windows is most popular for the standalone . ’ |
| 26 | Upjohn has at all times contended that Halcion is safe and effective and that any errors in the presentation of its material to the Licensing Authority were unintended , and it is suing the BBC for libel . |
| 27 | Intel Corp has decided that its 1989 acquisition of universal communications processor manufacturer Jupiter Technology Inc ( UX No 240 ) was a mistake , and it is letting the company go in a management buyout backed by a private investment group . |
| 28 | The princess , looking tanned and relaxed , led her sons into a waiting minibus when the party arrived in London and it is expected the boys will join their father this weekend . |
| 29 | The news of her latest pregnancy was broken in November , and it is expected the new baby will make a public debut on her Good Morning BBC1 programme , perhaps next week . |
| 30 | And it is thought the boss did a ‘ Paddy Ashdown ’ by coming clean before the affair was revealed in a newspaper . |