Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] is [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you will need fundamentally is to hit on some situation that puts the greatest stress imaginable on a person not too dissimilar from yourself or from the majority of your readers . |
| 2 | The table Andy is perched over is stacked with several hundred champagne glasses , forming a glittering pyramid rising a couple of metres from the table 's surface . |
| 3 | This technique of working with the sound turned off is known as silent viewing see Video Plan 3 in this chapter . |
| 4 | Erm , what we 're gon na do now is look at some number crunching and what I 'll do is give you Pearson 's erm formula for calculating the correlation coefficient . |
| 5 | And so for each one of them you might 've started by , having got all this , what you could do then is write for each individual element , a tank base , a tank wall a bedroom or a bathroom , you can produce , I would suggest , a little bar chart which might look like that , for one unit . |
| 6 | But the intimate local picture this builds up is amplified by detailed accounts of subjects like fashion and jewellery , jet 's role in literature , and its links with Royalty . |
| 7 | Each coat of arms touched on is illustrated in full colour , and the augmentation is blazoned . |
| 8 | Normally , Parliament will be dissolved by the monarch as and when advice to do so is conveyed to that effect by the Prime Minister ; and invariably , the issuing by the monarch of a proclamation dissolving Parliament is accompanied by the issuing of another proclamation summoning the next one . |
| 9 | What I like best is to talk to fellow artists . |
| 10 | And what I want to do now is to look at two elements . |
| 11 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 12 | Much of the field covered here is bedevilled with terminological problems ; see , for example , Crow ( 1989 ) on the term ‘ strategy ’ , or Mintzberg ( 1981 ) on ‘ planning ’ , Martin & Martin ( 1989 ) on ‘ scanning ’ , Stewart ( 1989 ) on the definition of a manager ( see also Leontiades ( 1982 ) ) . |
| 13 | But if the reaching out is achieved by huge price cuts , then booksellers have every right to complain . ’ |
| 14 | The type of meditation outlined here is known as REFLECTIVE MEDITATION . |
| 15 | What we do instead is to look for partial theories that will describe situations in which certain interactions can be ignored or approximated in a simple manner . |
| 16 | The fear that the encounter might have been handled incompetently is concealed in dismissive remarks about this type of work , about it not bring their job , as well as critical comments on the members of the public who think it is and who therefore make unrealistic demands on them . |
| 17 | The technique outlined below is known as progressive muscular relaxation and is one of the easiest to master . |
| 18 | The EPS calculated above is based on half-year figures as the net dividend figure is only an interim rather than a full annual payment . |
| 19 | Most of the software it makes today is sold to individual users in homes or offices . |
| 20 | Standing with your back to the castle , Hradčany Square stretching ahead is surrounded with grand palaces and houses . |
| 21 | That ideal of a multiplicity of individuals bargaining freely is translated into social practice through the rules of property , contract , tort and criminal law . |