Example sentences of "is [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 2 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 3 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |
| 4 | ‘ Nowadays somebody who uses the word nigger is seen as racist , whereas Biggles is using it in a neutral sense that 's no longer there . ’ |
| 5 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 6 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 7 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 8 | The best way to explain Message Queue Interface is to compare it with a standard remote procedure call , where a client sends a request to another machine and waits for the response . |
| 9 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 10 | The simplest way to do this is to plant it in a dark-coloured , bottomless bucket sunk into the ground . |
| 11 | There are two ways to make an application protocol-independent : the first is to re-write it , incorporating MPTN , the second is to connect it to a separate gateway that will do the conversion . |
| 12 | Although the COB Rules provide that no customer agreement is required for an indirect customer as such , the purpose of these provisions is to treat him as a direct customer in the particular circumstances and so that exclusion is irrelevant . |
| 13 | Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course . |
| 14 | GERRY JOHNSON is driving me along the winding roads of south-western Virginia . |
| 15 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 16 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |
| 17 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 18 | It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion . |
| 19 | Is there anything which needs to be cleared up with someone else that is robbing you of a clear conscience ? |
| 20 | In letters to charities she is warning them about the extra administration time that trustees will spend making tax claims and notifying changes of registered particulars , and advising them that much of it could be saved by selling existing investments and contributing the proceeds of sale to a common investment fund . |
| 21 | ‘ To make lips look fuller , the trick is to define them with a brown eyeliner and outline the shape you want them to be and then go for a light coloured lipstick . |
| 22 | The traditional way to prevent corrosion is to suspend a ‘ sacrificial ’ magnesium anode in the cistern ; the best solution with a corroded cold water cistern is to replace it with a new plastic one . |
| 23 | The best thing to do when an old galvanised cistern has started to rust is to replace it with a modern plastic type . |
| 24 | Mr Pizzi is replacing them with a main circular space with a two storey-colonnaded façade . |
| 25 | The Tory party is often an amiable shambles , but the Maastricht process is turning it into a neurotic press gang . |
| 26 | With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys . |
| 27 | Consequently the company is touting it as the first hub to support seamless migration from direct-attached to Token Ring-attached devices . |
| 28 | Such structural components are often called objects , and one approach is to combine them with the logical objects we have just described into one uniform mechanism . |
| 29 | Although 70% of the company 's revenue was from Unix in the last fiscal year , Progress defended its support of the AS/400 : IBM is refocusing it as an open platform and database server which means it can be combined with Unix , commented Wark . |
| 30 | The best way to do this is to wrap them in a thick layer of newspaper and hit them with a hammer . |