Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence is accumulating to show that gut epithelial cells interact closely with adjacent mononuclear cells . |
| 2 | The satisfaction of knowing that their support is helping to sustain and develop Medau work . |
| 3 | On Father 's Day I think what he 'd like best is to go shopping and then he 'll take me out , to Dunstable Downs to see the gliders . ’ |
| 4 | The holding-period yield , rh ( assuming that the bond is bought on a coupon payment date ( so that AI = 0 ) and sold an even number of coupon payment dates later ( so that T is an integer ) ) , is calculated using where r i is the rollover rate of interest earned by the ith coupon payment and P 1 is the price at which the bond was sold . |
| 5 | The way in which child support is calculated means that the amount payable can vary according to a number of different factors . |
| 6 | The God who is hidden to sight and beyond human understanding is also the God made manifest in our earthly environment . |
| 7 | In the long run it is by making efficient investment decisions that capacity is adjusted to ensure that this price also reflects long-run marginal cost . |
| 8 | To maintain the same characteristic impedance as the prototype , the shunt impedance Z' 2 of the m-derived section is arranged to satisfy or Thus the shunt arm of the m-derived section must be formed from the shunt impedance Z 2 of the prototype divided by m in series with extra impedance as illustrated in figure 9.8(c) . |
| 9 | It 's intended to suggest that I may be a more complex character than they assume . |
| 10 | The registration is checked to see if it has been correctly completed . |
| 11 | The manager of each package to be updated is checked to determine whether the specified user may carry out the changes . |
| 12 | Before a module is accepted by LIFESPAN , its header is checked to ensure that all its constituent keywords are present and that they contain at least the minimum amount of information required . |
| 13 | When a module name is first entered into LIFESPAN , it is checked to ensure that the same name has not already been chosen for another module . |
| 14 | The root package specified is checked to ensure that : |
| 15 | The root package specified is checked to ensure that : |
| 16 | The module specified is checked to ensure that : |
| 17 | Tom said he is fascinated to learn that her perky personality seemed unchanged in the spirit world . |
| 18 | It may misrepresent English and Irish experience to draw analogies between Spenser and current perspectives , but it equally is misplaced to deny that past and present discourses about Ireland possess noticeable similarities which have larger cultural consequences . |
| 19 | A level 1 assessment at age 7 is intended to signal that the child may need special help . |
| 20 | This rule has now been relaxed so as to permit reports of commissioners , including law commissioners , and white papers to be looked at for the purpose solely of ascertaining the mischief which the statute is intended to cure but not for the purpose of discovering the meaning of the words used by Parliament to effect such cure : Eastman Photographic Materials Co . Ltd. v. Comptroller-General of Patents , Designs and Trademarks [ 1898 ] A.C. 571 and Assam Railways and Trading Co . Ltd. v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue [ 1935 ] A.C. 445 , 457–458 . |
| 21 | It is intended to formulate and test models of the British economy , incorporating rational expectations as well as alternative expectations schemes in models which will also specify innovation and choice at the micro level and integrate micro-economic behaviour with macroeconomic variables . |
| 22 | The hotline scheme coincides with a new £1.2m exhibition gallery at the museum , ‘ Food for Thought ’ which is intended to entertain and to instruct visitors about the past present and future of food , food industries , eating out , and food fashion — ranging from Lyons corner houses and Palm Court tea rooms in the 1920s and 1930s to the coffee bars of the Fifties and McDonalds fast-food outlets of the 1980s . |
| 23 | Less stringently regulated than the Official List operated by the Stock Exchange and open to smaller , less well-known companies , the USM is intended to promote and accommodate growth and vigour in the corporate sector of the economy . |
| 24 | The Boston text relates more exclusively to the movement itself and includes , along with historical material , a brief statement by Mark Francis which is intended to justify and explain the motives behind the exhibition ( the Situationists did not give the event their blessings and none of the past members participated in its planning ) . |
| 25 | What are the human requirements which the new product or process is intended to meet and how far are they not met by those already available ? |
| 26 | We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 ) |
| 27 | Crucial to the arguments of Bailey and Bickerton is the scaleability of their data , which is intended to show that the rules are added in a set order ( reflecting the historical development — the " decreolisation " of the language ) , and resulting in a systematic ordering of lects from bottom to top . |
| 28 | Such models were applied to the car market by several authors in the 1960s and early 1970s ; this research is intended to determine whether the principle can still be usefully applied in forecasting the size of the market . |
| 29 | This programme , which is still at the experimental stage and therefore subject to adjustment in the light of experience , is intended to supplement and not to replace the close personal supervision which graduate students are entitled to expect . |
| 30 | This is intended to mean that the object is attended to , and in some sense ‘ enjoyed ’ , for itself , ‘ for its own sake ’ , for the qualities it possesses in itself as apprehended , and which arouse our attention and interest ( p. 4 ) . |