Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The support is reflected , for example , in the way the older pairs draw the attention of their partner to information that is lacking from the original description — see ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , and the way information is presented in manageable chunks in ( 5 ) . |
| 2 | When painting or drawing Oska , who was too Nordic for Minton 's taste , he achieved an objectivity that is lacking in the poorly co-ordinated Cornish Boy at a Window ( Government Art Collection ) for which Eric Verrico posed . |
| 3 | That association is particularly concerned about a measure that is proceeding through the other place and the question whether it will be dropped and be replaced by the provisions relating to canals in this legislation . |
| 4 | I think we need another war to get rid of the er get rid of some of the thing that 's happening at the present day . |
| 5 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 6 | So probably we can widen it out and have a discussion here this morning now that we have seen some if not all of the stuff that 's coming from the respective head offices . |
| 7 | At the greatest depth in Jupiter penetrated by direct measurements the temperature is about 170 K and is rising along the adiabatic lapse-rate . |
| 8 | Griffin is hoping to run in the London Marathon and is aiming for the Olympic marathon in Barcelona . |
| 9 | If you 're comparing us with primary and secondary schools we have to remember that the erm the great erm age bulge pass has passed through the primary schools and is passing through the secondary schools and is still to reach higher education . |
| 10 | IBM meanwhile is looking for other vendor customers and is working with the Open Software Foundation to see how CICS fits in with DCE . |
| 11 | The horse is leaving ‘ home ’ so make sure that he is going forward and is concentrating on the first fence ahead . |
| 12 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |