Example sentences of "is [adj] [prep] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in these brief intimate scenes that Ashton exploits the difference between youth fulling in love and experience demanding it , because Natalia is used to getting her own way . |
| 2 | The group projects a version of the formal om-nicompetence of all solicitors as a device for generating trust from the public which is used to making its own judgement of other occupations . |
| 3 | In the UK , Personal Workstations is now the exclusive distributor of the product , and is interested in adding its own third-party developments to the system , exploiting existing third-party extensions , such as the XI database interface , XVT++ C++ version and the Decos Windows-alike interface for 80286 and below PCs . |
| 4 | The Black Amulet is good for reducing your own wounds and shifting them onto the enemy , pushing up your all important combat result . |
| 5 | He is concerned with fitting his own idea of attractiveness , rather than girls ' ideas of attractiveness . |
| 6 | Hence the social value of a salient feature , in terms of its associated stereotype , may act as a brake on accommodation where a speaker is concerned with preserving his/her own identity , but may promote accommodation where the speaker is eager to identify with the other-dialect speakers . |
| 7 | The water industry in Britain is divided up into a number of autonomous water companies and councils ( Chapter 3 gives details ) and each is responsible for producing its own water bye-laws . |
| 8 | A Xerox machine is capable of copying its own blueprints , but it is not capable of springing spontaneously into existence . |
| 9 | On the contrary , since the enterprise is an organization with a complex internal structure and of necessity relatively autonomous from political control , it is capable of developing its own internal interests and agenda ( cf. Levy 1987 ) . |
| 10 | SIR — To suggest , as J. G. Girling does ( letter , April 1 ) , that the British Parliament is no longer the supreme legislative body of our country is to argue that Parliament is incapable of repealing its own legislation . |