Example sentences of "is [verb] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The hardest thing is keeping it looking the same , ’ says Mr Poole , ‘ mainly because of modern health and safety regulations . ’ |
| 2 | Our first question is has it got the fair-trade mark ? |
| 3 | If it is to put pressure on broadminded intellectuals to persuade their leaders to change their policies , it is having the opposite effect , and is causing them to support the nationalist government . |
| 4 | Under the Education Reform Act 1988 , if an authority believes that a budget is mismanaged it has the ultimate power to withdraw it . |
| 5 | In terms of how the visual system is organized it raises the exciting possibility that different properties of objects are computed by anatomically distinct circuits . |
| 6 | Our aim is to help them make the right purchase by giving them all the information they need . |
| 7 | The best birthday present we have given is to let them have the seven million pounds to buy the campus freehold |
| 8 | And finally : ‘ Do n't merely talk , like some gasbags do , about shedding the last drop of your blood for your country — the difficulty with them , when the time comes , is getting them to shed the FIRST drop of their blood . ’ |
| 9 | As a new word position is encountered it replaces the oldest information stored |
| 10 | While the kettle is boiling he scans the front page . |
| 11 | a good choice for instance , right , all you say to somebody is do you prefer the traditional right or would you prefer the modern styles , right in other words would you like Georgian or would you rather have leaded |
| 12 | Erm th the , the thing I think about is do you remember the Green Cross Code ? |
| 13 | But to insist that women somehow amputate their love and compassion is to ask them to destroy the very thing which in my view favourably distinguishes us from men . |
| 14 | In some of these cases the company may be the market leader , that is to say it has the largest single share of the market and because of this has a major influence on market prices and product design . |
| 15 | In cases where an acute prescription is required I give the new remedy in LM1 . |
| 16 | ‘ The aim is to make you look the best and capture it on film . ’ |