Example sentences of "is [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , we can not see or touch a computer program running in a computer , all we can do is experience its effects through a peripheral device such as a monitor or a printer . |
| 2 | One of these is to support their schools with a range of expert services . |
| 3 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 4 | One of Britain 's top bodybuilders is to flex his muscles at an event in Hartlepool 's Town Hall Theatre . |
| 5 | He is dabbing his lips with the napkin . |
| 6 | IXI managing director , Ray Anderson , says his company is girding its loins for the ‘ mother of all battles ’ as it seeks to drive into Sun Microsystems Inc turf armed with X.desktop over OSF/Motif . |
| 7 | Our aim is to provide our members with a special holiday experience — including lectures and tours by expert guides and access to restricted places . |
| 8 | Our overriding priority is to provide our shareholders with a satisfactory financial return on their investment . |
| 9 | Our overriding priority is to provide our shareholders with a satisfactory financial return on their investment . |
| 10 | An enterprising sheep farmer is opening his gates to the public during the lambing season . |
| 11 | SynOptics is basing its hopes on a six-chip Asynchronous Transfer Mode chip set developed in partnership with Washington State University . |
| 12 | Taking the initiative BMK is revamping its products with the launch of new ranges and major changes to its established products . |
| 13 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 14 | The more feasible alternative is to dismember his plays between the history of his own day and the ideologies of ours . |
| 15 | The trick is to aim your eyes at the sign as soon as it is in your line of vision and then to fix your gaze upon it as you go past . |
| 16 | Maybe everyone is saving their horses for the Arc . |
| 17 | Maybe everyone is saving their horses for the Arc . |
| 18 | Hopkins is worried that Strieber is turning his experiences into the source for a new religion . |
| 19 | To that end , will he encourage Russia to use its good offices to intervene in the appalling situation in Nagorny Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan , if Russia is to win its spurs as a member of the Security Council and ultimately as a member of the conference on security and co-operation in Europe ? |
| 20 | The effect of disciplining and training myself morally is to refine my ch'i to a perfect transparency ; then the li show through . |
| 21 | This nomad is leading his camels to a water hole after five dry days in the desert . |
| 22 | ‘ Yet again Mia Farrow is forcing her children into the limelight for a dollar , ’ said Allen 's spokeswoman Leslee Dart . |
| 23 | ‘ Our task is to help our customers in the short term use them more efficiently , and as quickly as possible bring to the market new products which will not have any interaction with the ozone layer . |
| 24 | LABOUR 'S biggest backer is slashing its donations to the parliamentary party by a third to £1 million . |
| 25 | The normal tendency of such a ‘ preparation ’ ( biologists ' speak for an animal to which they have done something nasty , akin to the use of the term ‘ sacrifice , that I commented on earlier ) is to extend its legs into the liquid bath . |
| 26 | Nolan 's method is to put his hands on the bare flesh at the point of the complaint for a minute or two . |
| 27 | When changing direction , one method is to put your feet into a V position facing uphill , using the axe as a safeguard while doing this ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 28 | Ilog SA , the french engineering software specialist , is expanding its operations to the UK starting up Ilog Ltd , Guilford , Surrey , to provide maintenance and support for its UK users . |
| 29 | The practice of the Court of Appeal ( Civil Division ) is to confine its judgments to the facts of the instant case . |
| 30 | Having recorded the guide-track , you can use it directly to cue the sections of music into place as you pre-record them onto the sound tape , or you can convert them first to tape-counter references ; another alternative is to mark their positions on the back of the tape with a wax pencil or felt-tip pen . |