Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way to remind ourselves is to reflect that , even today , not all the phenotypic effects of a gene are bound up in the individual body in which it sits . |
| 2 | So if yours is looking poorly , hack it out and replace it . |
| 3 | That hair of yours is getting right long . |
| 4 | The justification is that while someone is receiving acute care they have the prospect of returning to an independent life in the community , with consequent retention of personal housing . |
| 5 | For example , if you 're an ardent feminist and someone is telling sexist jokes , you wo n't find them funny . |
| 6 | For example , if someone is looking agitated or clearly fuming with anger , indicate openly that you can see they are upset . |
| 7 | There appear to be no special forms or procedures which are required to be adopted in the county court where someone is found guilty of contempt in the face of the court and committed to prison under section 118 of the County Courts Act 1984 , although no doubt , if such an event were to occur , the court would follow the general approach required by Ord. 29 , r.1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 ( as amended ) which applies in the case of committal for breach of injunctions . |
| 8 | When someone is doing this it is very difficult to gain commitment . |
| 9 | There is ‘ a conflict ’ with USL , says Unix Solutions Ltd , which is seeking legal advice on the matter . |
| 10 | Barrie Lamb stated that the job would have been completed earlier had DRPS not been diverted into rescuing additional rolling stock such as their current working steam loco , a Peckett 0-4-0 ST which is undergoing extensive winter repairs . |
| 11 | This then is an overview of the consumer lending market which the credit marketer faces , a market which has deteriorated overall and , moreover , which is undergoing speedy and dynamic flux at the finer level . |
| 12 | Given the comments of the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , when he was Secretary of State for the Environment , that national parks were the jewels in the crown , does the Minister not think it fair that that should apply to the entire United Kingdom , not least to my constituency which contains Loch Lomond which is facing ecological disaster as a result of the political intransigence of the blockheads in the Scottish Office in Edinburgh ? |
| 13 | Areas facing irreparable damage include the Dee estuary in Wales where port , road and recreational development and pollution threaten 105,000 birds ; the Wash , where 260,000 birds are threatened by industrial development , an airport and oil refining ; the Mersey , where a tidal barrage and airport development threaten about 60,000 birds ; and the Thames , including the Medway and Swale , which is facing immediate damage from development and pollution threatening 177,000 birds . |
| 14 | You betray an ironic and unfair image of a decent country which is facing difficult times when you refer ( December 1st ) to Colombia 's ‘ worn out political system ’ ; to its ‘ corrupt and self-serving political elite ’ ; to assassination as ‘ the usual fate of Colombian reformers ’ ; and to drug traffickers ‘ who will get lighter terms in Colombia 's porous prisons in return for squealing on their colleagues . ’ |
| 15 | This applies also to the British Council , our arm of cultural diplomacy , which is facing unprecedented demands from the newly liberated countries which are looking out for English language teachers . |
| 16 | Siemens AG has now acknowledged that it is looking for a strategic partner for its troubled Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , which is facing growing woes over the next couple of years now that the German economy is plunging into what threatens to be deep recession . |
| 17 | The Apple-Novell effort is said to have the blessing of Intel Corp , which is providing technical assistance and compatibility testing . |
| 18 | Or one other word which is to say that sponsorship is enabling because if you go into a partnership like A B S A it enables you to get the gov similar government funding . |
| 19 | In the old days , which is to say five years ago or so , the phrase you would most often hear issuing from the yet-to-be father was , ‘ Yes , of course we 'll have children . |
| 20 | The difference between causal circumstances and their effects , further , is what distinguishes causal circumstances and effects from other things also in nomic connection , which is to say nomic correlates . |
| 21 | Given what has been said , further , a mental event is not necessarily what is sometimes called a whole mental state , which is to say all of a person 's consciousness at or for a time , but typically is a part of a whole mental state , a part which itself has parts . |
| 22 | The idea that mental events are physical , however , is not the idea , whether true or false , that mental events are in fact identical with the particular kind of physical events with which they have often been and are still identified , which is to say neural events . |
| 23 | Such pairs of things are like a causal circumstance and its effect in that they stand in fundamental nomic or necessary connection ( 1.3 ) , which is to say some connection stated by an independent nomic conditional statement . |
| 24 | He was 128th in driving accuracy , 180th in sand saves , 192nd , which is to say dead last , in sub-par holes ( percentage of eagles and birdies ) , 191st ( or second-to-last ) in scoring average , dead last in both putting on the few greens he hit in regulation and in total putts ( which means that when he missed a green , he seldom got it up and down ) , and dead last again in shooting birdies on par-3s , par-4s and par-5s . |
| 25 | A table , chart , or programme , in this sense , is not a tape or a disc but a sequence of Propositions , which is to say abstract objects . |
| 26 | Nigel Watson , chairman of the housing forum , said : ‘ The survey confirms our fears that there is a problem and it is one which is getting worse as more young people are being forced to leave the dale . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But I 'm not convinced that Genesis are doing stuff which is breaking new ground so much now . |
| 28 | It is terminated by an Arch , through which is seen other Arches with close Arbors , and a row of Trees to the end of the View . |
| 29 | Thus the implication is that if the State Department issues a mild statement in response to an issue which is provoking inflammatory articles and speeches in the press and Congress ( for example , over the Agrarian Reform Law ) , then it is simply that the government is hiding its ’ real' intentions in order to deceive . |
| 30 | ‘ At least fifty per cent of which is documented historical fact , you claim that yourself at the beginning of the book . ’ |