Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This status should be updated as the problem is assigned for solving and action is taken to resolve the problem . |
| 2 | Our present campaign is waged against targeting or means testing of benefits and pensions . |
| 3 | Although this 20 per cent is intended for teaching and research , much of it is used to make up deficits in general health-care budgets . |
| 4 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
| 5 | We have seen that , according to Althusser 's reading , Marx is committed to arguing that practices are mutually dependent , and some of the links between them are displayed in Althusser 's attempt to clarify the relations between the practices of capitalist society . |
| 6 | For what he understands , and what they apparently do not , or will not , is that the whole lovely complex crystal machine in which they live is built upon suffering and death . |
| 7 | The Cellophane which is made for wrapping and packaging is therefore protected by a very thin coating , on each face , of a water-resistant lacquer . |
| 8 | Similarly , R' is got by substituting OR symbols for their spans in R. The second kind of context is the pair ( L' , R' ) . |
| 9 | At present the fiction that each MP acts on his own judgement and takes a discriminating part in legislation is preserved by insisting that members must be present and pass through the lobbies night after night , though in fact such activity makes no material difference , but seriously impedes MPs in their task of keeping up to date with their special interests and with their constituency work . |
| 10 | ISQL ( the Interactive Query Language ) is used for reporting and printing of queries on the data |
| 11 | How much how much is used for making and polyethylene and things ? |
| 12 | And the joy of the Christian , you know , is found in knowing that God 's going to sustain us no matter what the future holds . |
| 13 | The material is generated by backwashing and treatment with permanganate . |
| 14 | This is promoted by ensuring that executives keep in touch with the firm 's business . |
| 15 | What is meant by saying that judges must be impartial and seen to be so ? |
| 16 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 17 | It is taken for granted that men do and should occupy the leadership roles and make the important decisions . |
| 18 | He explained that on the Continent it is taken for granted that fish caught on a line by small boats should command a premium for the careful handling that preserves both flavour and texture . |
| 19 | ( A ) is part of what is stated by stating that rain is making the balcony wet , or causing the balcony to be wet . |
| 20 | ( B ) is part of what is stated by stating that rain would make the balcony wet . |
| 21 | Included in a reformed Common Agriculture Policy , is an ‘ Agri- Environment Programme ’ which is aimed at promoting and funding grant-aid schemes on a regional basis . |
| 22 | Much of this book is aimed at ensuring that file designers know how to minimize the impact of such indexes or dictionaries on space used and time wasted in file processing . |
| 23 | These are delipidated in peripheral tissues principally by the action of lipoprotein lipase which is secreted by adipose and muscle tissues and attached to the capillary endothelium . |