Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the minister of religion is required to conduct a service , the family or funeral director arrange this . |
| 2 | This line of reasoning is intended to provide a means for felicitous plural and singular pronominal reference under appropriate circumstances . |
| 3 | I equally do not believe that the All England Club is going to sign a contract to create a completely new club in Basingstoke tomorrow morning . |
| 4 | THE 1992 programme is going to run a bit late for the European Community 's financial-services companies . |
| 5 | Environmentalists fear that the programme is designed to conceal a retreat from a campaign pledge made by President Clinton to increase average fuel efficiency required by law to 40 mpg by 2000 and 45 mpg by 2015 , which has been fiercely resisted by car companies . |
| 6 | But this bodpod is designed to solve a down to earth problem … how to fit six people into a car designed for five . |
| 7 | Pat Bateson 's analogy is to consider baking a cake . |
| 8 | ‘ Now the chief priest is going to say a prayer for the boats on the beach , ’ he explained , as they went with other spectators to join in behind the end of the procession and follow it across the square and on to the sand . |
| 9 | In addition to deciding whether such phenomena really are characteristic of some particular identifiable driving state further research is needed to decide a variety of questions , for example : Do such experiences depend on the driver being tired ? |
| 10 | Above all , however , this chapter is intended to begin a debate about the methodological and theoretical influence upon research of ‘ sensitivity ’ , whether deriving from the sensitivity of the topic , its location , or both . |
| 11 | The set of general criteria generated in the first part of this chapter is intended to provide a framework of maximum support for this style of education . |
| 12 | Sometimes it is valuable to emphasise the impetus itself , particularly if a bravura pirouette is needed to display a dancer 's particular expertise or perhaps some exhibitionist trait in the character portrayed . |
| 13 | This study is designed to provide a means of testing , refining , and developing theories about football hooliganism on the basis of empirical data that are being collected by the techniques of social anthropology . |
| 14 | A , who has an interest in property held by B upon trust for him , may hold that interest upon trust for D , or transfer it to C upon trust for D. ) If , however , an attempt is made to create a trust by transfer to a trustee , but the transfer itself fails from a defect in form — where land , for instance , is transferred by unsealed writing , or the transfer of shares in a company has not obtained some necessary consent of the Treasury — the trust also will fall , unless the transaction is one made for value , a term which includes settlements or agreements for settlement in consideration of a contemplated marriage , but not of one already celebrated . |
| 15 | The ‘ Functional Approach ’ : There are fewer though more frequent harvests , with less replication and an attempt is made to fit a function to the data . |
| 16 | Scorpion is said to outperform a SparcStation 2 by a factor of between 12 and 15 times . |
| 17 | The hotelier is required to keep a record of this information which is open to inspection by the police for a period of up to twelve months . |
| 18 | Each applicant is asked to supply a portfolio of work at interview . |
| 19 | The 63-year-old Oscar winning actress is expected to spend a week in hospital after Sunday 's operation on the tumour , which may be cancerous . |
| 20 | THE beleaguered bloodstock industry is set to receive a Budget boost tomorrow . |
| 21 | According to these authors , when the interval between successive lights in such a set-up is around 150 millisec. , a single light is seen to describe a circle . |
| 22 | If the logarithmic term is expanded using a Taylor series : but truncated after the squared term , assuming φ 2 is small , then , |
| 23 | The encoder is set to generate a position pulse corresponding to a 0° switching angle and this pulse is fed back directly to the phase excitation circuit , when the appropriate position is reached during the first step . |
| 24 | To start with , WorldSource will simply enable a multinational to call its offices abroad more easily by eliminating technical disparities that arise when more than one carrier is needed to complete a call . |
| 25 | This switch is expected to put a premium on the top handful of managers , who have track records in arranging programming for television stations . |
| 26 | The defendant in a fixed date action is permitted to submit a defence at any point before the return day , but if it is outside the 14 day period he or she may have to meet any costs incurred as a result of the delay . |
| 27 | The US administration is planning to weaken a provision in the clean air laws designed to preserve air quality in unpolluted areas . |
| 28 | The horse is going to do a lot worse than just wrench its leg from the farrier 's grasp ! |
| 29 | Phostrogen Safer 's Natural Garden Fungicide is used to control a multitude of diseases such as powdery mildew on Phlox . |
| 30 | The subsystem is claimed to provide a 200% improvement on the graphics speeds of Power Premiums , in a Windows environment . |