Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that . |
| 2 | This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand . |
| 3 | Malvern-based chartered accountant Alan Kay is helping with a detailed investigation of the activities of certain copier companies that are widely criticised for malpractice , as well as the leasing companies that finance them . |
| 4 | Student Keith Marsh is particularly interested in science and has organised a trip for pupils to use the college laboratories while Clare Phillips is helping in the primary school library . |
| 5 | Many of Wordsworth 's poems are attempts to show how we associate ideas ( see ‘ Hartley ’ , p. 80 ) , and he often points out how the second idea — ‘ the echo of the voice ’ in this case — is blended with the first idea on which our conscious attention is fixed — ‘ my eye / Was fixed upon the glowing Sky ’ . |
| 6 | ONE of County Durham 's longest-serving police officers is to retire in a few days . |
| 7 | DR HOWARD Cromie is to retire from the active ministry in May after 31 years in Railway Street Presbyterian Church , Lisburn . |
| 8 | Note that at the back of the head an allowance of approx. ½in has been left , and this is bevelled with a smoothing plane so that when viewed from above the head will lie at an angle to the neck . |
| 9 | The plan is to go into a neighbouring country … in this case Salisbury Plain … and evacuate civilians using soldiers to protect them . |
| 10 | from escaping through the top and if you 're i if it 's a fa you know , there 's some light or disturbance you and want to sleep and the best thing to do is to go into a light doze cos , you know , you ca n't do much else that 's cover your face . |
| 11 | The third option is to go for a strategic exceptions policy in the structure plan and obviously this is what er the borough considered considers is appropriate . |
| 12 | Documents we have obtained show that one contract for the extension to the London Underground Jubilee Line is to go to a German firm , even though a British company is desperate for the work . |
| 13 | A STOCKTON woman 's bid to turn an empty shop into a taxi office is to go to a public appeal . |
| 14 | They ca n't ever understand that if your desire is to go to the furthest limits of yourself then the actual form your art takes does n't seem important to you . |
| 15 | On April 26 , Lisa is to go to the Royal College of Music , in London , to take on the best of British players in the national finals . |
| 16 | A relatively safe way of doing this is to go through a local agency or someone who has passed the test to become a member of the Magic Circle . |
| 17 | Well according to , these blokes said , the only safe way of getting er money on overdraft is to go through a German bank . |
| 18 | The trick in bringing about a change in attitudes towards marketing is to go after the easy stuff first , there is nothing to be gained from knocking your head against a brick wall . |
| 19 | Nippon Digital Equipment Corp is to go after the client-server market in Japan , using the bilingual DOS/V operating system on its personal computers and the VAX series of machines as servers . |
| 20 | This utility will total up the number of bytes each directory is using across a given path . |
| 21 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 22 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 23 | THE cab driver who was forced to carry an IRA bomb to Downing Street is recovering with a double birthday celebration . |
| 24 | Patrick , who joins Michael and EastEnders actress mum Lizzie Power for a family holiday in Sardinia on Wish You Were Here , was born with cerebral palsy and is recovering after a major hip operation which his father describes as ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 25 | I also regret to say that our chairman , Mrs Dorothea Garnons Williams , who would I am sure have liked to attend , is recovering from a serious operation . |
| 26 | And three-times 1930s champion Perry , in a letter from the American hospital bed where he is recovering from a triple heart bypass operation , added : ‘ To the youngsters who will use this centre , I say , use it with pride . |
| 27 | The chough , the rarest member of the crow family in Britain and Ireland , is recovering from a severe decline in numbers . |
| 28 | Paul Dodge , once the hard centre amongst England 's backs , is recovering from a pulled hamstring and expects to make the Orrell trip , but there are still doubts about the fitness of John Wells , the England B flanker whose hamstring problems may keep him out for two more weeks . |
| 29 | And for the biggest test of the season Town are missing three regulars Micky Hazard … is recovering from a minor knee ooperation … and with Craig Maskell still out Steve White has the task of leading the goal hunt |
| 30 | But he 's singing like a romantic lead . |