Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | DR HOWARD Cromie is to retire from the active ministry in May after 31 years in Railway Street Presbyterian Church , Lisburn . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's no great surprise that a lecture on Othello is mooted in the Possessed notebooks , and that ‘ O , Iago , the pity of it ’ gets quoted in Russian . |
| 9 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 10 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 11 | It is calculated at the following rates : |
| 12 | For Higher Rate Taxpayers , when the Bond matures or is surrendered the profit for tax purposes is calculated as the final proceeds less the original investment . |
| 13 | Where the relevant movement does not span the change in reference date of January 1987 , the indexation factor is calculated in the usual way using : where RD equals the retail price index for the month on which the disposal occurs ; and RI equals the retail price index for March 1982 or the month on which expenditure was incurred , whichever is the later . |
| 14 | With deep-taped headings , the depth is calculated from the appropriate row of pockets to the top of the tape . |
| 15 | The belt here is hidden under the over fall , and a further garment , a veil , is worn over head and shoulders . |
| 16 | It is as if in looking at something , the poet discerns an eternal substance that is hidden behind the manifest sense impressions . |
| 17 | is no doubt peculiar ; but , at the same time it is hidden from the external observer by the event horizon . |
| 18 | But the bottom of all the surrounding buildings is hidden by the high brick wall round the garden , and the top of them by the beige silk shades which are half-lowered over the windows . |
| 19 | More generally , the effectiveness of the production system depends on the way the social system is adjusted to the technical requirements ( Emery and Trist , 1960 ) . |
| 20 | The camera is an auto-focus and the aperture is adjusted by the internal meter . |
| 21 | Before the family are contacted an appointment is arranged with the nominated paediatrician so that they can see the family within a day of their being approached by the primary health care team . |
| 22 | The genealogy is arranged in the following pattern : |
| 23 | The nature of the rebellion is explained by the social character of the island with a cohesive clan structure and social solidarity ; the leaders included radicals who had returned from Japan and schoolteachers . |
| 24 | Indeed , that part of the over-representation of teenagers amongst the temporary labour force which is not explained by the temporary working of persons still at school is explained by the high proportion of the age group in special youth training schemes . |
| 25 | It is explained by the slow growth of GDP in the UK ; consequently , comparisons of GDP per head place Britain in a very lowly position . |
| 26 | This is explained in the financial review on pages 28 and 29 . |
| 27 | The graphics subsystem is built around custom chips and plugs into the TurboChannel of the host processor : it 's intended for the Alpha-based Titan 2.0 — a multi-processor graphics workstation — but it will also run on the MIPS-based Titan 1.0 . |
| 28 | The problems of providing this service are varied , and the view that procedures under local anaesthesia are less satisfactory than those under general anaesthesia is compounded by the current funding emphasis on day case surgery to the detriment of outpatient work . |
| 29 | The problem is compounded by the poor preservation of organic ( especially plant ) materials in the recent savannah . |
| 30 | This minefield is compounded by the moral nature of the problem ; about what is and is not acceptable behaviour . |