Example sentences of "[pron] is [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odd-Knut thinks that it might be best to make a night trip with empty sledges , returning to the camp , especially as a friend of his is likely to arrive for the night . |
| 2 | Thus a document which is first brought to the purchaser 's notice after the contract is made will not incorporate into the contract terms printed on the document . |
| 3 | Providers include the private sector , which is keen to compete with the NHS and match costs . |
| 4 | It shines , on a silvered copper plate , which is solid to hold in the hand — but the image is evanescent , even when the plate is tilted to just the correct angle to the eye ( like looking at a hologram today ) and the street becomes magically present in all the exorbitant detail that the Daguerreotype possessed . |
| 5 | It also looks at the potential profits which British Aerospace may be able to make by selling redundant sites in Llanelli , Bathgate in Glasgow and the Cowley plant in Oxford which is due to close in the 1990s . |
| 6 | PLANS for a voluntary split of business interests is among options which British Gas has proposed to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission which is due to report on the future of the industry next month . |
| 7 | The tycoon Deacon Chiu is building three film studios at his Tang Dynasty Village , which is due to open in the middle of this year . |
| 8 | IN STYLE : Belfast International Airport 's new £5 million 108 bedroom hotel , which is due to open in the spring of 1993 |
| 9 | He has approved compulsory purchase orders and side roads orders connected with the proposed Rhuddlan bypass , work on which is due to start during the coming year . |
| 10 | The information from the first Panel Survey supplied in the form of grids as well as reports is being analysed to ensure that necessary modifications to the approach or to the methodology will be identified and approved before the second Panel Survey , which is due to start in the autumn . |
| 11 | Learners acquire a particular language by receiving comprehensible input , that is to say by being exposed to messages expressed in language which is within the current acquired competence of the learners , together with language which is due to appear in the next stage of acquisition , and which can be eased into the mind by the help of context , knowledge of the world and so on . |
| 12 | If all investment and most resources are withdrawn , whatever is sold has a high profitability and generates cash which is available to invest in the top left-hand group . |
| 13 | If , in some way , the text cursor could be treated like a graphics cursor , which is free to roam under the control of a joystick or trackball , these ideas could be put into practice . |
| 14 | You can get the 4.29 from Richmond to York , which is supposed to connect with the 4.47 , but it 's always late … ’ |
| 15 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 16 | In this environment , which is likely to continue for the foreseeable future , our objective is to build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices and which will show a rate of growth commensurate with the forecast rise in our production and cash flow . |
| 17 | When workers experience a rise in the real wage rate they face a decoding problem : they must decide whether this increase is a permanent rise , that is a rise which is likely to endure into the foreseeable future , or a temporary rise , that is a rise which is likely to be reversed in the near future . |
| 18 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 19 | increase in traffic which is likely to occur in the morning peak hours . |
| 20 | The deviation of a situation from expectations , the breaking of safety margins , or the recognition of a potentially dangerous situation may produce subjective risk which is likely to coincide with the need for attentional resources , which if provided might cause an enhancement of memory . |
| 21 | Reception under conditions of distraction is taken to its extreme in television , which is half watched in the course of pursuing other activities and in which very often , especially among children , entire programmes are not viewed at all ; instead , fingers rarely leave the remote control device as there is a constant change of channels ( Ellis 1982 , p. 137 ) . |
| 22 | Archaeology is increasingly a multi-disciplinary subject , which is hard to place into the administrative structures of universities . |
| 23 | The loan items will be transported to Edinburgh on Thursday 4 March , using the Library 's own vehicle , which is purpose-made to conform to the National Security Advisor 's guidelines . |
| 24 | And Master Parry himself is willing to agree to the offer I make . ’ |
| 25 | We might note that the adjective hende , which we shall find extensively exploited in Chaucer 's Miller 's Tale , is also used of Dame Sirith , when she is first mentioned in the text , in line 154 . |
| 26 | In February she is due to appear in the networked This Sunday . |
| 27 | Martina Navratilova announced she is likely to retire at the end of next year after she blasted aside Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere 6–2 , 6–2 in the first round of the Virginia Slims championships in New York . |
| 28 | as if that were n't enough , she is next summoned to the American Embassy where the CIA chief ( the wonderful Walter Matthau ) tells her all about a war-time plot in which her husband was involved . |
| 29 | Chief executive Chris Gorringe said : ‘ We completely understand why Monica feels she is unable to play in the championships . ’ |
| 30 | In particular , ‘ Big Al ’ , one of Scotland 's all-time great jumpers , is surprised at the omission of Appleson in favour of the veteran Peter Dods , 34 , who is due to retire after the tour . |