Example sentences of "is [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN SALAKO is to see the American surgeon who saved his career amid fears that he faces another lengthy lay-off with knee trouble . |
| 2 | JOHN SALAKO is to see the American surgeon who saved his career amid fears that he faces another lengthy lay-off with knee trouble . |
| 3 | This is to miss the important point which has made Kinnock master of the Labour party , as Bevan never was : Bevan was a rebel ; Kinnock is not . |
| 4 | Through the triple entrance of the outer narthex is approached the main narthex which is constructed in two storeys . |
| 5 | Well , that 's certainly true , but Bridgemere is absorbing the extra cost itself so you 'll be paying the same for the nursery 's coir-grown plants as you would for peat-raised plants . |
| 6 | Our duty is to secure the best return we possibly can or on , on our investments and yet at the same time to have regard to the aims and objectives of the Council itself . |
| 7 | Thus , it is accepted that if a minister is made the deciding authority he will often have to act through officers to collect the material and the officer may even make the decision in the minister 's name . |
| 8 | Something is troubling the curly-haired boy I 'm playing with in the backyard of my grandparents ' house . |
| 9 | The general principle is called the Cooperative Principle which Grice ( 1975 : 45 ) presents in the following terms : |
| 10 | The amorphous or molten polymer is a conglomeration of badly packed interlacing chains and the extra empty space caused by this random molecular arrangement is called the free volume which essentially consists of all the holes in the matrix . |
| 11 | Another big factor , of course , is providing the proper underlay which gives the carpet extra life , and this in itself is a real investment at around £3 sq yard . |
| 12 | Being robbed is losing the confident skin you have grown naturally ; it is to know it can happen to you and if it has happened once … |
| 13 | The Tutor remains a sympathetic character fur Vera , s sorrow at his departure is echoed by Kolia , Natalia 's son , when he too realises he is losing the only person who has tried to make him happy . |
| 14 | The industry is comparing the biggest boom it ever had — the peak in 1989-90 — with today 's admittedly lower level of activity . |
| 15 | If the message is to influence the other person it must have an appropriate degree of impact ( Kraft 1979:7149 ) . |
| 16 | Many people say that the solution is to take the young person who has committed a crime out of their community and lock them away , that will achieve a solution . |
| 17 | To state the problem ( that is to say the intellectual problem we have set for ourselves ) in a way which enables us to go about finding a solution is not easy . |
| 18 | They are not perhaps the kind of remarks to be found in Christmas crackers , but they suggest that his humour was bound up with the idea of self-parody : he is mocking the pontifical manner which others associated with him . |
| 19 | If nursing is to gain the professional status it is striving for , it needs to attract motivated and able students . |
| 20 | He points out that now she is cohabiting the only benefit she will get is the basic dole . |
| 21 | So in wooing militants he is not seeking only to heal the wounds of Punjab and Assam — he is following the one strategy which might sustain him in power . |
| 22 | If he is afforded the slightest respect it makes him worse , larger . ’ |