Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I 'd like you to do is to go with me during the next couple of hours , have an open mind and erm if I say something which is in an in any way provocative , question me if you want to , cos that 's what we 're here for , to communicate . |
| 2 | Waggoner eventually concluded that the only way to see a whole tournament is to go to it for the entire week . |
| 3 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 4 | For example , it has been found that some striking perceptual differences in viewing a wire-frame cube ( including , for example , the ease with which certain mental images can be formed of it ) depend on which alternative structural description of the object is assigned to it by the perceiver ( Hinton 1979 ) . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) The value of a symbolic good depends upon the value which is assigned to it by the relevant consumer community . |
| 6 | As it seems that the ancient and archaic NDB is to remain with us for the foreseeable future , this might be a good time to take a closer look at its failings as an aid to navigation ? |
| 7 | The following , recommended by the Law Society , is now widely used : In consideration of you today completing the purchase of we hereby undertake forthwith to pay over to Building Society the money required to redeem the mortgage/legal charge dated and to forward the redeemed mortgage/legal charge to you as soon as it is received by us from the Building Society . |
| 8 | Being sick can bring with it a degree of sympathy and attention that is greatly valued by more isolated individuals , and they may believe that if their health improves they will lose out on the time and attention that is given to them on the basis of their illness . |
| 9 | ‘ If , therefore , for any unhappy reason , counsel for the defence is unable to accept the assumption which stems from the fact that a particular statement has not been made available to him by the prosecution , it would become counsel 's duty to invite the judge to exercise the discretionary power which is given to him by the proviso to section 18 of the Evidence Law , ( c. 118 [ J. ] ) , by examining the statement himself and directing that it be used in such manner as the justice of the case demands . |
| 10 | Policemen immediately that that is given to us by the Home Office . |
| 11 | ‘ Our idea of what belongs to the realm of reality is given for us in the concepts which we use . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , so on that , on major services , it is incumbent upon you to consult , erm , and detailed advice is given by me to the Director in relation to each of the , of the er , proposals as to when and how consultation should take place . |
| 13 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 14 | That prompted judge Robert Watson from the USA to interject : ‘ Judges can only score a foul if it is reported to them by the referee . ’ |
| 15 | By convention , the government of the day resigns or requests a dissolution if a motion of no confidence is carried against it in the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act . |
| 17 | First of all , it seems that the housewife 's resentment of her long working hours is located by her in the context of a comparison between her own and her husband 's situation . |
| 18 | Here it 's called awareness , in dance call it sensitivity , sensitivity to what is happening around us with the ability to react sometimes at great speed . |
| 19 | ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely . |
| 20 | This is so contrary to our general assumptions ( namely that the Holy Spirit , however vaguely we conceive of him , is an internal gift for the faithful , appropriate only to be mentioned in church ) that it is important for us to see the crucial link between the Spirit and mission which is presented to us in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 21 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 22 | A corresponding duty is imposed on him in the case of lettings of offices and shops ( Offices Shops and Railway Premises ( Hoists and Lifts ) Regulations 1968 ( SI No 849 ) ) . |
| 23 | Yet it is an objective standard which the directors themselves define , and not one that is imposed upon them by the courts , who regard it as illegitimate to substitute their own view of what constitutes the best interests of the company or the shareholders for that of the directors of the company . |
| 24 | If your client is in a trade , say baking , then you must deal with his trade journals , Clients are sensitive enough about what is said about them in the consumer press but when negatives appear in their own trade journal , the sparks fly at your next client meeting . |
| 25 | There can be no doubt that for many women fear of loss is built into us by the way we 've been reared . |
| 26 | If a child is aged under 2 then any provision which is made for him/her by the LEA is stated to be special educational provision ; in the case of a child aged 2 or over it is ‘ educational provision which is additional to , or otherwise different from , the educational provision made generally for children of that age in schools maintained by the LEA ’ . |
| 27 | Set back from the road it faces the south wall of the magnificent St Magnus Cathedral , and is separated from it by the road , and by a peaceful park area and an avenue of trees . |
| 28 | An image copy of the Working-Set is taken whenever a new dictionary range is transferred to it from the Main Database . |
| 29 | All this is a matter of statistics and arid generalities : but what the transformation of these local heaths meant to those who had grown up near them and upon them , what the change meant in detail , is revealed to us in the poetry of John Clare , who was born in 1793 on the edge of the heath country of northern Northamptonshire . |
| 30 | She is going about her business , while he is writing about her to the world , and we are seeing her through his eyes . |