Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depreciation is calculated to write off the cost or valuation of tangible assets other than freehold land over their estimated useful lives . |
| 2 | The heading for this section looks like a play on words , but it is intended to point out the fact that , while development control is one of the instruments by which planning policies are implemented , there are also policies relating to the actual operation of the control . |
| 3 | In a number of legal systems there is a presumption that the property in identified goods is intended to pass on the making of the contract , in others , only on delivery . |
| 4 | One of the central parts of my Bill is intended to cut down the number of pedestrian casualties , and I shall explain that more fully later . |
| 5 | The water is intended to wash away the contamination of sacredness of persons who have been acting a priestly role . |
| 6 | The Budapest meeting , also attended by six international organisations and observed by Canada and Argentina , is intended to follow up the work of a similar gathering in Berlin in 1991 . |
| 7 | The Budapest meeting , also attended by six international organisations and observed by Canada and Argentina , is intended to follow up the work of a similar gathering in Berlin in 1991 . |
| 8 | To assist with the addressing of this problem and to get some consistency into the approach it is intended to bring together the experience gained , so far , in the form of small manuals and guidelines . |
| 9 | Article 15 of the second directive gives cancellation rights to all individual contracts except those of six months or less and is amended to exempt where the policyholder has had , for example , the opportunity to reflect on the policy terms before contacting the insurer . |
| 10 | A laborious internal review of the Long-Term Costing is undertaken to whittle down the gap , and to highlight vulnerable programmes so that the Secretary of State can be given the strongest possible brief to help him fight for a higher allocation of resources ; and conversely to enable him to fend off attacks by other high-spending ministers , who are intent on grabbing a larger share for themselves , often at the expense of Defence . |
| 11 | Consumers would see food prices fall overnight because the CAP is claimed to push up the food bill for the average family by over £15 a week . |
| 12 | To recoup , the government is expected to speed up the passage of a law that would make insider-trading a crime . |
| 13 | St James 's University Hospital in Leeds , where the TV series is filmed , is expected to take up the proposal for self-governing trusts in NHS hospitals which was given the go-ahead in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 14 | A Computing Support Officer has been appointed , and is expected to take up the post on 1st July . |
| 15 | As time passes the new bride is expected to take on the identity of her new family , making her subjugation complete . |
| 16 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 17 | The Department of Trade and Industry is expected to announce soon the award of new licences in the latest round of exploration off the west Wales coast . |
| 18 | The Department of Trade and Industry is expected to announce soon the awarding of new licences in the 14th round of exploration off the west Wales coast . |
| 19 | This section is designed to explain briefly the operation of various exchange rate arrangements , before we analyse in more depth in this and the next chapter how the type of exchange rate system influences the adjustment mechanism . |
| 20 | The CD laser stylus is designed to detect only the presence or absence of a pit . |
| 21 | It is said to show how the club has changed along with the community of South-east London . |
| 22 | The shift to a broader notion of fairness is said to alter fundamentally the basis of procedural intervention : it can no longer be restricted to adjudicative settings , and there can no longer be fixed standards for determining whether there has been a breach of procedural fairness . |
| 23 | Whilst no attempt is made to play down the importance of local rules to meet local needs , the existence of certain shared values is reflected in the provisions of the Code . |
| 24 | According to the classical view , poetic style is purely decorative , playing no part in communication other than to please the hearer 's aesthetic sense.9 However , this view implies that figurative utterances may be paraphrased without loss of meaning , and as , for example , Coleridge ( 1906 : 263 ) points out , once it is recognised that " language is framed to convey not the object alone , but likewise the character , mood and intentions of the person representing it " , then it should not be surprising that the test of a " blameless style " is its " untranslatableness in words of the same language without injury to the meaning " . |
| 25 | A matrix is not a simple scalar quantity like 2 or 8 and a special technique is needed to carry out the operation of raising a matrix to the power n . |
| 26 | They also dance about possible new nest sites , and about water sources when water is needed to cool down the nest . |
| 27 | In particular , more research is needed to ascertain how the voice of the consumer may best be heard . |
| 28 | The stock must be grown on as though nothing has happened — the top growth is needed to pull up the sap from the roots , past and into contact with the bud . |
| 29 | A crash programme is needed to build up the economy , boost training and create new jobs . ’ |
| 30 | Also hydrographic factors may influence distributions : for example in the Rockall Trough the influence of Norweign Sea overspill water is thought to extend upwards the distribution of certain species commonly associated with the lower abyssal zone ( Gage et al. , 1983 ) . |