Example sentences of "is [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere .
2 GERRY JOHNSON is driving me along the winding roads of south-western Virginia .
3 The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Consequently the company is touting it as the first hub to support seamless migration from direct-attached to Token Ring-attached devices .
7 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 .
8 O over this election , what you 've got ta do is every night , is if you 're interested is watch it for the first quarter of an hour of the news every night .
9 The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft .
10 The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever .
11 The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line .
12 So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it .
13 Part of the success is to sow them at the right time .
14 Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time .
15 The ultimate ‘ aim ’ of beauty , if there can be said to be such a thing , is to point us towards the spiritual realm .
16 ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says .
17 I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes .
18 The plan is to convert it into the ultimate upmarket hotel and haute cuisine restaurant .
19 The most common method of distinguishing between production systems or types of production is to separate them into the three categories of jobbing , batch and mass production .
20 Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World .
21 S what in fact er Mrs said is too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you have to close she really is approaching it from the wrong way , it 's equally too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you need to have open , keep open or open and that is one of the problems which I believe this council and other councils will will face .
22 At which , after an ovation , half the audience did depart to hear Michael Heseltine , whose idea of a fringe meeting is to hold it in the Grand Theatre , which is very grand , built 1906 , seats 1,200 , and where Alvin Stardust will head the bill in this year 's pantomime .
23 All you have to do is tell us about the worst computer nightmare you 've ever had .
24 This is taking us from the mundane and the ugly and helping us to see something of the reality of the splendour of God in our lives , particularly when we worship Him .
25 In such a case the judge is not abusing his powers ; he is exercising them to the best of his ability albeit some other court thinks he was mistaken .
26 The second is to present them to the three million visitors each year in ‘ an educative and enjoyable way ’ .
27 Apart from being awkward , the Arabic version also distorts the information structure of the original by presenting the first element ( ‘ general picture ’ ) as given when the point of the cleft structure is to present it as the new information worth attending to .
28 He is telling us about the new initiatives
29 Rees thereupon complained to the European Commission of Human Rights that , by refusing to alter the recorded sex on his birth certificate , the United Kingdom , through its law , is depriving him of the legal status corresponding to his actual condition , to which he is rightfully entitled by Article 8 .
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