Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instructor 's used to training younger men , but has every confidence in his latest pupil . |
| 2 | Well he 's used to getting free drugs er you know |
| 3 | Perhaps he 's used to having one meal he was n't there in the day time |
| 4 | Therefore the underlying aim is not unique , but the power of large Japanese firms is extensive in enforcing systematic inventory reduction . |
| 5 | He seems in no hurry to start a family of his own and is shy about discussing beautiful Kristy , who he has been linked with romantically . |
| 6 | The reason for the decline is not always poverty ( which it often is for smaller farms or those in marginal areas ) but in the better areas is due to increasing agricultural efficiency , and even in the mid-1980s to agricultural surpluses ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 7 | As to section 39(11) Mr. Langley relied on the decision of the Court of Appeal ( Dillon and Ralph Gibson L.JJ. ) in Bank of England v. Riley [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 840 where the question was whether the defendant was entitled to refuse to answer interrogatories or disclose documents in reliance upon the privilege against self-incrimination , or whether that privilege was excluded by section 42 of the Act which entitles the Bank of England , inter alia , to require a person to attend and answer questions where the Bank has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person is guilty of contravening various sections of the Act . |
| 8 | Clause 172 is also redrafted to clarify the law and reads : [ a ] person is guilty of handling stolen goods if ( otherwise than in the course of the stealing ) knowing or believing them to be stolen goods , he dishonestly — |
| 9 | The religious way which has the feminine at its heart is that of entering deep darkness to find the mysteries of the divine . |
| 10 | One of the problems in evaluating the changes brought about by the Conservative government since 1979 is that of disentangling long term trends from the direct effects of policy initiatives . |
| 11 | Another area of interest is that of using synthetic polymers for sustained ocular drug delivery . |
| 12 | The other serious difficulty which employers in other industries do not have to cope with is that of obtaining factual details about incidents which have taken place many miles from home . |
| 13 | Where the reading skill required is that of interpreting such things as labels and road signs , they should pursue the normal targets and programmes as far as possible for their own safety , though they may need help where practicable to interpret these things through other than ordinary visual means . |
| 14 | One of its main functions is that of giving in-service training on the shop floor . " |
| 15 | A further revolution that has not yet taken hold widely in Japan is that of networking personal computers and word processors , and one American working for a large Japanese company in Tokyo complained to Reuter of hours spent every day hunting down paper documents written on dedicated word processors and then stuffing them laboriously into facsimile machines — when an efficient personal computer network could save all the effort . |
| 16 | For Ross the most important method is that of testing ethical principles by reflective intuition . |
| 17 | The most effective method is that of asking all members of a sample of households to keep diaries , noting what they are doing at all times of the day . |
| 18 | Similar to the process of forming maternal bonds , is that of forging sexual bonds . |
| 19 | Its general function is that of securing that advice , assistance and representation are available in accordance with the Act and of administering the Act . |
| 20 | But in fact the good news is that you run these courses for food handlers and the hope is that by running these courses you wo n't have so many cases of food poisoning . |
| 21 | Given the requirements of speculative offices , it is perhaps inevitable that this should happen , but it is preferable to getting average work out of average architects . |
| 22 | As a TV-am After Nine contributor , he is used to answering all types of questions . |
| 23 | As co-presenter of BBC1 's Wildbunch and director of the Animal Information Bureau , he is used to answering all types of questions . |
| 24 | In ordinary cars the higher temperature is produced by having a higher compression ratio and one is used to having high performance cars which have a high compression ratio and need special grades of petrol to avoid knocking and pinking and other effects detrimental to the car , and of course that leads to the need for lead to be added to petrol to stop knocking . |
| 25 | As he is used to painting large canvases , a huge blank wall was not a problem . |
| 26 | This can be especially true if you are a woman who is unused to making sexual demands , or if you are already in a long-term relationship when you begin to ask for safer sex . |
| 27 | The finance approach is weak at assessing future cash flows , but says ‘ give me the cash estimates and I will tell you how that affects the shareholders ’ risk positions and hence the market value of the company' . |
| 28 | The project uses IBM 's Interactive Standard Query Language data- base on the IBM 3083 mainframe at Liverpool and is innovative in using this software for historical research . |
| 29 | However , the Gould-Jacobs reaction is unsuitable for producing 1-cyclopropyl-quinolonecarboxylic acids or 1-cyclopropyl-azaquinolonecarboxylic acids of the ciprofloxacin type because it is not possible to alkylate 1-unsubstituted quinolones or azaquinolonecarboxylates with cyclopropyl halides . |
| 30 | Around three-quarters of the food we buy is processed in some way but Faith is right in thinking some convenience foods are healthier than others — fishfingers , frozen vegetables , pasta , pizza , baked beans , canned fruit in natural juices and yogurt all fit in neatly with ideas about healthy eating . |