Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Introduction to Counselling is intended to assist in the techniques of attending , focussing , listening and understanding empathy . |
| 2 | For as long as these conditions persist , and until a comprehensive range of services is developed to cope with the needs of parents with older mentally handicapped children and adults , there will still be a need for mental handicap hospitals , and there will still be young people being admitted to them . |
| 3 | Todorov , who has 20 caps , is expected to play for the reserves tomorrow against Derby and will train at the ground today . |
| 4 | About 78% of the solar radiation incident upon Venus is scattered to space by the clouds . |
| 5 | Rather than try to disentangle the scores of relationships examined between animals and plants in this area by putting them into categories of predation or dispersal mechanism , an attempt is made to look at the relationships of particular taxonomic groups of animals and their food plants . |
| 6 | The Pru , it seems , is destined to remain in the headlines — Mr Newmarch 's views on self-regulation hit the papers soon after the accruals announcement . |
| 7 | The implementation of key targets as operational components of the new strategy — and hence also of the process of negotiation — may be conceived in the time frame of a decade but only in the form of a dynamic process , with different time frames for different components , and with an in-built and effective mechanism for review and reappraisal , leading to adjustments and correctives whenever the strategy is seen to deflect from the goals and objectives of development for which it was devised . |
| 8 | The special issues in the ticket cases revolve around whether the party whom it is sought to bind under the conditions on the ticket had actual or constructive knowledge of their existence . |
| 9 | This substance is thought to bond to the walls of liver cells and eventually kill them . |
| 10 | This may be to acquaynt you that their is a pore yong women in oure Towne of Asston-underlyne infected with a filthy deceassed called the French poxe and shee saith shee was defiled by one Henry Heyworth a maryed man , but soe it is the report of that dessease occasioneth neighbours to deny hir harbour and shee is enforced to lye in the streetes and in great danger to bee starved , I do humbly intreate your worshipps to take it into your consideration and to grant your Order that the pore woman may be provyded for to prevent starveing , either upon the parrish charges , or upon the Costs of the said Heyworth whom she saith hath spoiled hir , whether yiur worshipps shall think fitt |
| 11 | His basic idea was to empty arteries and veins of their blood and replace it by something ‘ fluid enough when it is injected to run into the branches of the vessels , will afterwards quickly grow hard ’ . |
| 12 | The proliferation of controls , for example , is bound to add to the problems of command , control and communication in wartime ( as on a small scale it did in Czechoslovakia in 1968 ) , but how much so it would be hard to say . |
| 13 | Brighton centre-half Paul McCarthy is set to return to the Under-21s as captain after missing the defeat in Copenhagen with injury . |
| 14 | Jean Nouvel is set to follow in the footsteps of Philippe Starck and become the new design superstar by Fay Sweet |
| 15 | ONE of Anglesey 's oldest town halls is set to rise from the ashes of a fire which destroyed it . |
| 16 | ONE of Angelsey 's oldest town halls is set to rise from the ashes of a fire which destroyed it . |
| 17 | Obviously the symptoms may actually be due to an infection of the bladder — such infections are certainly more common among women who are sexually active than among those who are not — and the symptoms may be due , if not to a sexually transmitted disease , to other minor infections such as thrush ; but in many cases no bacteriological offender is found to account for the symptoms . |
| 18 | In Slow Motion , that clear-sighted optimism is brought to bear on the advances made in men 's individual attitudes and behaviour , as well as state regulation and definitions of gender positions and possibilities . |
| 19 | Colchinine is known to interfere with the microtubules of the neutrophils . |
| 20 | This is not the first time that this issue has reached the public domain , or will it be the last time that the House is asked to focus on the rights and duties of citizens in circumstances — from time to time inevitable circumstances — when the interests of one individual or one set of individuals necessarily impinge on and potentially damage the interests of others . |
| 21 | Every day some master , insufficiently energetic or serious , is forced to descend from the ranks in society which seemed to be permanently his , and some intelligent and plucky clerk takes his place . |
| 22 | Yet it is she whom Abraham hands over to Sarah to do with as she pleases , and who is treated so cruelly by her mistress that she is forced to escape into the sands . |
| 23 | Much of it is n't recorded in great detail , so one is left to read between the lines about the activities that were involved . |
| 24 | The grant is awarded to pay toward the costs of a series of three workshops , the purpose of which is to disseminate 16-19 Initiative findings . |
| 25 | Drama work in a historic setting need not involve a polished " performance " but rather a workshop situation where every pupil is encouraged to enter into the thoughts and the feelings of a historical character , or perhaps several characters in turn . |
| 26 | The longer seed is allowed to form in the pods , the shorter the productive life of the plants will be . |
| 27 | punctuation that is allowed to fall outside the margins instead of staying within the measure of the text . |
| 28 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 29 | The Henley influx doubles the numbers , but every care is taken to look after the birds : |
| 30 | These inferences come about in at least two distinct ways , depending on the relation that the speaker is taken to have towards the maxims . |