Example sentences of "[verb] is [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the great difficulties a teacher has is to recognise a good drawing or painting from a bad one — or to know when a child has achieved through his effort a simple personal expression . |
| 2 | For readers who would like to fix until the next millennium , Birmingham Midshires has is offering a fixed rate of 8.49 per cent until 31 January , 2000 . |
| 3 | The best way to understand what is happening is to make a manual slip pattern on the machine , before we move on to electronic patterning . |
| 4 | One of the basic problems in surveying is to obtain a good response from one 's informants . |
| 5 | On one level you may be preoccupied with establishing greater financial stability but what may be equally as pressing is finding a real sense of belonging and a deep emotional rapport with a partner . |
| 6 | In other words , to slim is to take a rational decision with a conscious aim in view . |
| 7 | You need to put a lot of energy into your work and career at the beginning of June , Virgo , when all you really want is to create a secure home environment for yourself ! |
| 8 | ‘ But right now , all I want is to lead a normal life . ’ |
| 9 | The last thing you want is to start an involved conversation because when you come to do it for real , it can all seem a bit stale . |
| 10 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
| 11 | All it needs is to promise a high-powered investigation , such as a Royal Commission , into the practicalities of an alternative voting system ( surely justified by the intense public interest now abounding ) . |
| 12 | But what it can and will do is bring a literary perspective to sport , by encouraging gifted writers to go one-on-one against our most intriguing winners and losers . |
| 13 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 14 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 15 | What you would do is copy a blank cell . |
| 16 | Since the note on this subject was published in the November Journal at p 372 , the Home Office have advised English JPs that they can not issue a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy as such , and that all they can do is to take a statutory declaration of good repute , etc , from the individual concerned . |
| 17 | With plywood and hardboard , it 's no so easy to hide the joins , and the best you can do is to use a thick textures paper such as woodchip or a heavy blown vinyl . |
| 18 | All they 'll do is put a local transfer erm , thing in . |
| 19 | ‘ What this guy will do is get a demoralized sales organisation revitalised , hopefully at the same time that the company 's Alpha technology begins to roll out in volume , ’ said John Jones , analyst at Salomon Brothers . |
| 20 | So the first thing you must do is get a different message across . |
| 21 | What I 'll do is get a little light run down then you can see |
| 22 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 23 | What I 'd do is keep a handy sledge-hammer in the boot ! ’ |
| 24 | What the system does do is to provide a continuous flow of information to the selector about the type of books required by the library and the number of books of each type , and it is on this information that the bibliographical decisions are based . |
| 25 | The only thing she 'd done is make a small scratch with a rose thorn and was unfortunate enough to get a piece of contaminated soil |
| 26 | What they have not yet done is to form a united organisation , or political party , to press that demand . |
| 27 | And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe . |
| 28 | What Burley 's group has now done is to add a new protein structural motif to this list by solving the cocrystal structure of the basic/helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper ( b/HLH/Z ) domain of Max bound to DNA at 2.9 A resolution . |
| 29 | Ail that is needed is to throw an oncoming punch off course . |
| 30 | What I 'd like is to adopt a multi-racial child . |