Example sentences of "[adj] is [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of visitors is increasing from year to year but at the peak of the holiday season this is causing more congestion and overuse of the landscape . |
| 2 | This is causing some difficulties . |
| 3 | This is to confirm that |
| 4 | An alternative way of looking at this is to posit another principle also universally present in human intercourse . |
| 5 | This is up-rated each year in April . |
| 6 | This is to state that is an accredited volunteer with Christian Aid and has agreed with the appropriate Department at Head Office a specific work arrangement . |
| 7 | All of this is looking more than hopeful and plans are to operate ZS-BXI Daisy ( as she will be known ) in the orange , blue and green colours of the DASA logo in due course . |
| 8 | To deny this is to abandon all hope for liberal education , and to condemn the schools to a narrow policy based on vocational training . |
| 9 | to disengage oneself from ‘ third persons ’ in an analysis of the transition period is inadmissible , this is to dismiss all the specific theoretical problems : The theoretical misunderstanding of this entails an incorrect line in the sphere of economic policy . |
| 10 | This is repeated several times on alternate legs . |
| 11 | This is helping many people see that RE should have something more distinctive to contribute to the values education of pupils than what can happen within the teaching of other subjects . |
| 12 | In some regions of the state , this is threatening several species of fish , he says . |
| 13 | But if this is to prove more than gesture politics , a number of challenges must be faced . |
| 14 | Yeah this is taken this piss is n't it ? |
| 15 | The reason for this is to avoid those who appointed the administrative receiver being treated as mortgagees in possession or being held liable for the receiver 's acts which would be the case were the receiver to be treated as their agent . |
| 16 | In part , this is to prevent former high-ranking IRS and Treasury Department officials handling foreign firms ' transfer pricing cases . |
| 17 | This is focused much more by the perspectives of the elder . |
| 18 | ‘ This is to certify that Color Sergt Wm Nicholl was wounded in action with the Enemy , in the year 1812 in Upper Canada . |
| 19 | ‘ This is to certify that Color Serjeant William Nicholl served in the 8th ( or The King 's ) Regiment of Foot for a period of Twenty One Years , during which time he has invariably conducted himself as an honest , trustworthy , sober man — Given under my hand at Plymouth , This 4th day of August 1825 , J. Duffy Lf Col Commg 8th or King 's Reg . ’ |
| 20 | This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man . |
| 21 | This is to certify that … has successfully completed an advanced training course in the following subjects : Information Management , Plant Information Systems , Database Design and Construction , Word Processing , and Personal Computer Operating Systems ; and that he has demonstrated his abilities in these subjects by constructing a database of the Economically Useful Plants of India . |
| 22 | The muscles that connect the two bones are clearly under a colossal amount of tension and this is pulling these two bones together . |
| 23 | Well this is growing all the time due to mergers and takeovers . |
| 24 | The authority is given parental rights over the child by the court order and unless this is revoked these remain in force until he or she reaches 18 . |
| 25 | The best way of achieving this is to secure that what the mirror is reflecting is interesting — perhaps plants , pictures , or even a fireplace . |
| 26 | You know the sys that I mean that 's the system this is say this is the key to a good getting on for eighty percent |
| 27 | If this is passed some of us will no longer be active . ’ |
| 28 | Before the wooden boat sank , however , her crew were taken off and treated with the utmost courtesy by Kapitän Leutnant F.K. Paul , who accepted the ML 's surrender : a tribute he paid to a gallant foe , and evidence if this is needed that chivalry is the prerogative of individuals , not nations . |
| 29 | ‘ Where a man , having the animus furandi ( see ante , para. 1469 ) , obtains possession of goods by frightening the owner , as by threatening him with temporary imprisonment unless he delivers up his goods , and the owner does deliver them under the influence of the fear inspired by his threat , this is considered such a taking ( although there is a delivery in fact ) as to constitute larceny : Reg. v. Lovell ( 1881 ) 8 Q.B.D. 185 . |
| 30 | So what you need to have done with this is to have all the puss got out . |