Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm do n't think mum 's in the mood for a quiz read . |
| 2 | In addition , Branch Managers have been requested to ensure that the Underwriting Supt or Section Leader counter-signs the front sheet to confirm payment is within the policy cover . |
| 3 | The easiest way to monitor change is by weighing regularly . |
| 4 | In a Marxist context it , it can not because the only way in which you can make progress is through co class conflict . |
| 5 | ‘ Miss Claybury , the most successful way to treat insanity is with kindness , ’ James told her when she insisted that a particularly deranged woman of middle age should remain chained by the ankle to her bed . |
| 6 | The only way the trust can be given effect is by construing it as charged on the intestate heir in favour of some other person . |
| 7 | I will argue that the best way of seeing research is as an aid to increasing enlightenment and not as providing the answers . |
| 8 | It is at this crossover position that the motor 's torque producing capability is at a minimum ; at any other position more torque can be produced provided the appropriate phase is excited . |
| 9 | At present , planned closure is in 2005 , but a lot of work is going into extending this to 2010 . |
| 10 | The transmit shunts bypass the record coils when the send/receive switch is at transmit and are adjusted such that the current through the recorder at the transmitting station is equal to that present on reception . |
| 11 | Where you want scholarship is on the inside , not on the boards . |
| 12 | Particularly for the concepts of accountability outlined in Divisions I and II of table 2.1 , an important way to communicate accountability is through the provision of financial , and related , information — financial accountability . |
| 13 | MUMS dreading the prospect of talking to their teenagers about adolescence will be relieved to know help is at hand in the form of the ‘ Tampax Teen Talk Line ’ . |
| 14 | Ratchet adjustment is by knurled ring . |
| 15 | Another technique for delaying ejaculation is for the man to practice tensing his muscles to stop the flow while urinating . |
| 16 | Most of the nationally owned forest is in the western USA and is dominated by softwood , while almost 90 per cent of private commercial forests are in the east where hardwoods are more important ( fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 17 | Of course , not all concern to record and preserve evidence is like this . |
| 18 | It was nearly a year ago , before the Heseltine challenge , says the college 's Principal , Dr John Beynon , that the Prince of Wales 's advisers approached King 's with proposals for a jointly funded study of the potential of Somerset House . |
| 19 | Another area where salespeople provide service is in trade selling . |
| 20 | Delegation without enabling authority is of little value , the person delegating will never be free from the task and the subordinate never fired with the enthusiasm and dedication which comes with having authority . |
| 21 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best method for underpinning democracy is through economic stability ? |
| 22 | But where the newspaper story has significance is in describing , and indeed representing , the limitations of a present position , which on one level is based upon an explicitly favourable stance , yet which contains its own implicit limitations . |
| 23 | Understanding music is like understanding leering . |
| 24 | He says that a pond contains lot 's of wildlife , and is a valuable educational tool . |
| 25 | In passing sentence Judge Harold H. Greene stated that any punishment other than imprisonment " would be tantamount to a statement that a scheme to lie and to obstruct Congress is of no great moment " . |
| 26 | Acquiring status is about learning to influence others and to feel in control of situations . |
| 27 | 1.25:WONDER MAN 'S hurdling form is in a different league to that of his three rivals and , providing he jumps round , he is sure to win . |
| 28 | This well-known , centrally located hotel is amongst the most comfortable in Kitzbuhel . |
| 29 | Long coach travel is during the cool early morning |
| 30 | ‘ The whole process of becoming masculine is at risk in the little boy from the date of his birth on ; his still-to-be-created masculinity is endangered by the primary , profound , primeval oneness with the mother6 . ’ |