Example sentences of "be [verb] is [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A further refinement that has often been adopted is to rank the supposed users in order of importance and then to concentrate on the most important .
2 So what you 're doing is to take the focal point away from them and they 're having to look at you if you know what I mean .
3 A simple method of telling whether a jufti knot has been used is to compare the horizontal knot-county to the number of warps .
4 Coun Davies said : ‘ The only way we can make sure these areas are protected is to have the three-mile stipulation written into the contracts . ’
5 What you are doing is taking a mature view of the situation .
6 What you are doing is taking a mature view of the situation .
7 What we are doing is taking the blind out of date .
8 The obvious alternative method of determining which aspects of a stimulus are remembered is to use a modified recall paradigm and this approach is adopted in Chapter 8 .
9 What must be done is to find the new position in spatial coordinates of the particle initially at xj after a time interval — t .
10 The method to be used is to copy the highlighted block to another file specially reserved for the purpose , then count the words and display the result in a simple message box .
11 To be employed is to have an ongoing contract that holds you accountable for doing work of a given type for a specified number of hours per week in exchange for payment .
12 Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six
13 See what I 'm saying is ask a nice open question an easy one at the beginning that you know most people are bound to understand you get a lot of participation and then start building it up .
14 That is what 's happening now but what I 'm saying is put a new chiller in
15 As competent , adult readers we are sometimes aware that something we are reading is having a considerable effect upon us .
16 Being robbed is losing the confident skin you have grown naturally ; it is to know it can happen to you and if it has happened once …
17 The best way to understand what is happening is to make a manual slip pattern on the machine , before we move on to electronic patterning .
18 What is done is to plot the observed magnitude against time .
19 One way this is done is to project the internal situation into current real situations when they symbolise the internal situation .
20 Ail that is needed is to throw an oncoming punch off course .
21 Essentially , what the firm is doing is to reap an additional return on the capital already invested at home in developing the product by transferring its know-how across frontiers .
22 If this all works you can be very confident that the motherboard works and all that is left is to install the hard disk and any other adaptor cards you may have .
23 All that is required is to create a new file , although this can be time-consuming .
24 The tragedy is that many of these disorders are easily diagnosed ; all that is required is to take an adequate history and perform a mental state examination , procedures that are cheap and free from side effects .
25 For example , a client may come to a bureau because he is concerned that the housing benefit to which he is entitled is taking a long time to materialise .
26 A sequential data file that is indexed is called an indexed sequential file .
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