Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 2 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 3 | Erm , right , what I want to do this week , is to go on to the next er , work of Freud 's , that follows after erm , group psychology , or rather to the next two , because I 'm gon na back these two books together for , hi there , , erm gon na back these two books together , because as we 'll see , they , they really deal with the same subject . |
| 4 | It concerns me , in fact I was , I 've had a theory for a couple of years now , that what the Tories wish us all to do is to go on to the American system of medical insurance . |
| 5 | If you have genuine difficulty in keeping to the diet in this book or any other diet , your best bet is to go back to the calorie-counting method , supervised by a diet club , dietitian , or doctor . |
| 6 | The artwork is placed down onto the UV light box so that the ‘ Copper Track View ’ of the artwork is downwards , towards the light source . |
| 7 | Turkey is flown in with the weekly food supplies , while in Tripoli some enterprising expats even breed turkeys specifically for the festive table . |
| 8 | There is bound to be considerable upheaval among the blue-chip client list which Deloitte UK is bringing over to the new firm . |
| 9 | The steam centre based in the Warwick Road , Birmingham is situated in between the main British Rail diesel multiple unit maintenance depot and re-fuelling sidings , complete with a large car-park for several hundred cars . |
| 10 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 11 | In the UK , Barclays Computer Operations , Knutsford , Cheshire , which was set up in January 1991 by Barclays Bank Plc to provide in-house facilities management , is stepping out into the commercial marketplace with its own offerings — OPM ( Operator Presentation Manager ) , and DataPlace . |
| 12 | Now that Czechoslovakia is stepping out of the Stalinist ice-box , nationalist voices in Slovakia are beginning to be heard again . |
| 13 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 14 | The other hand , also in a clenched fist position , is tucked in against the opposite side of the body , with the thumb and fingers facing upwards . |
| 15 | The wrenching cry at the start of the Finale claps a vice on the emotions that is sustained through to the ambivalent release provided by the Epilogue , and Barbirolli is one of the few conductors to prolong the agony of the climax by observing VW 's protracted emphasis on the grinding trombone and tube underpinning . |
| 16 | Though he still likes the animal and slapstick comics , he is branching out into the blood-and-thunder type . |
| 17 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 18 | In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees . |
| 19 | Hewlett-Packard Co is well ahead of the pack in fitting out its Unix machines with the kind of operations management systems that mainframe users expect , but Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is galloping off down the same path and has gone to Legent Corp for an agreement under which Legent will convert Legent 's system management tools to run on Sparcsystems under Solaris Unix . |
| 20 | These will be for family use only , but she 's branching out in the commercial food market soon with a line of American foods , with the help of husband Chris . |
| 21 | Mum is singing along with the last hymn . |
| 22 | The morning is given over to the religious aspect of celebrations , the afternoon belongs to the children , while the brass bands come into their own in the evening . |
| 23 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 24 | But , in pursuit of joint oversight responsibilities for these facilities in Wales , did the Secretary of State for Wales plead with that Department on the ground of regional policy alone as is pointed out by the Hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan ( Sir R. Gower ) , who is sadly absent today , in his early day motion that it makes no sense to move hi-tech jobs in Government research and development from an area such as south Wales to an overheated area in the south-east of England ? |
| 25 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 26 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the kite that Lord Hanson has flown is bobbing around in the political and financial winds . |
| 28 | An attack is warded off with the rear hand guard : the defender then drops onto one knee and strikes with a crippling tiger claw to the groin . |
| 29 | With each successive moult the current crop of fungal parasites is shed along with the old exoskeleton . |
| 30 | It seems IBM believes all it has to do to get its way is to come up with the right marketing plan . |