Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 2 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 3 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |
| 4 | ‘ Nowadays somebody who uses the word nigger is seen as racist , whereas Biggles is using it in a neutral sense that 's no longer there . ’ |
| 5 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 6 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 7 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 8 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 9 | The best way to explain Message Queue Interface is to compare it with a standard remote procedure call , where a client sends a request to another machine and waits for the response . |
| 10 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Belfast is bracing itself for a vicious war between rival republican terror groups over drugs . |
| 12 | PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino of the Philippines is bracing herself for a legal battle over her decision not to allow the remains of the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , to be returned home from Hawaii for burial . |
| 13 | The simplest way to do this is to plant it in a dark-coloured , bottomless bucket sunk into the ground . |
| 14 | There are two ways to make an application protocol-independent : the first is to re-write it , incorporating MPTN , the second is to connect it to a separate gateway that will do the conversion . |
| 15 | Although the COB Rules provide that no customer agreement is required for an indirect customer as such , the purpose of these provisions is to treat him as a direct customer in the particular circumstances and so that exclusion is irrelevant . |
| 16 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 17 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 18 | Is this independent , single parent who does n't stand for any of Barry Brant 's messin' anything like the real Hilary ? |
| 19 | I note that , yet again , the Liberal party is aligning itself with the Labour party on social and taxation matters . |
| 20 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 21 | Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course . |
| 22 | GERRY JOHNSON is driving me along the winding roads of south-western Virginia . |
| 23 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 24 | ‘ What I want now is to know who in the last month has been here to buy arsenic and belladonna ? |
| 25 | Married but childfree , she 's gearing herself for a sad goodbye to her 20s . |
| 26 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |
| 27 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 28 | He 's saved you from a long prison-term . |
| 29 | It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion . |
| 30 | Is there anything which needs to be cleared up with someone else that is robbing you of a clear conscience ? |