Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MODERN TIMBER technology is helping support on one of Wales ' most famous narrow gauge lines , the Vale of Rheidol Railway . |
| 2 | Oh yes and er the I pass all the correspondence I have to the County Planning Officer who deals with it with the most enormous efficiency and I hope that he is maintaining liaison with what I call the Rucatse Group which consists of , Neil and Tony and somebody from Crawley who is I think it 's |
| 3 | Readers Digest is to go public in February , offering 21 per cent of its shares to investors worldwide . |
| 4 | A " biosociety " says Professor A. Behrens , a prominent member of the project , " is one that should be fully aware of the problems of life in all its forms and of a balanced " input/output " in energy and materials … [ and ] is using biotechnology to an optimal extent in order to guarantee a proper balance between human needs ( partially represented by industrial needs ) , natural resources , and the environment " ( Oberursal , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 6 | Um now one thing er I notice you 're you 've gone for quite heavily is using kind of declarative directional statements . |
| 7 | I am not interested in scoring cheap points in this debate about the underfunding of sport , but if sport is using underfunding as an excuse or justification for taking large amounts of money from the tobacco industry , the Government must address the question whether they should put more money into sport so that sport does not have to use that excuse . |
| 8 | Macbeth is using language on two levels , one of which rebukes the other . |
| 9 | One of the most important is using information about the type of data stored in order to prevent howlers . |
| 10 | Another example , and it is a simple one , is using straw on farms . |
| 11 | When a leader in the Independent accuses Freddie Mercury of being a bad example because of homosexual acts committed in strictly guarded privacy before he realised he was at risk , it is using science as a screen for unexamined prejudice . |
| 12 | An artist is using rubbish from her dustbin to make re-cycled sculptures . |
| 13 | there is hidden selection within option schemes ; |
| 14 | In searching for an alternative , OFWAT is canvassing opinion on three different methods : water metering , a flat-rate licence fee , and banding or stepped charges depending on the type of home in which you live . |
| 15 | For many customers , especially the elderly , it 's bringing peace of mind . |
| 16 | We shall be particularly interested in discussing how a recipient might come to comprehend the producer 's intended message on a particular occasion , and how the requirements of the particular recipient(s) , in definable circumstances , influence the organisation of the producer 's discourse . |
| 17 | It should result in a clear statement of that practice area 's intended position in the marketplace and how it can differentiate itself from its competitors . |
| 18 | The Minister of State at the Scottish Office on British Steel 's intended programme of capacity cuts in Scotland : |
| 19 | Can Lord Wellworthy enforce the covenant made with Lord Sloane against Mr Sly and prevent Mr Sly 's intended use of Ramsden Manor as a country club ? |
| 20 | Dr Kumar said he had found almost every shopworker he had spoken to in Langbaurgh was earning less than Labour 's intended minimum of £3.40 per hour . |
| 21 | Dr Kumar said he had found almost every shopworker he had spoken to in Langbaurgh was earning less than Labour 's intended minimum of £3.40 per hour . |
| 22 | We seek to identify the writer 's intended referent for a pronoun , since a pronoun can , in effect , be used to refer to almost anything . |
| 23 | A landlord , who is not fully taxable , may grant to a fully-taxable tenant a tenant 's repairing lease with a clause giving the landlord the right to any indemnity from the tenant for necessary repairs . |
| 24 | Sales of shrink-wrapped software for Unix systems is outstripping growth in shipments of Unix hardware by nearly 2 to 1 , according to a new report by IDC Europe . |
| 25 | Sales of shrink-wrapped software for Unix systems is outstripping growth in shipments of Unix hardware by nearly two to one , according to a new report by International Data Corp 's IDC Europe . |
| 26 | DEC says its aim is to implement ECMA with its own products as well as merging US and European standards . |
| 27 | The brothers are very childlike and I think that Lewis Carroll is reliving part of his childhood through this chapter . |
| 28 | Elonex Plc is to contract manufacturing of its personal computers to Cordata Ltd , described as a new company and not related to the Cor-data Technologies owned by Daewoo Electronics Co : this Cordata is building a £5.5m contract manufacturing plant in Cumbernauld , Scotland , where it expects to create 175 new jobs and make 100,000 personal computers a year , and Elonex will turn its North London plant over to final assembly and testing . |
| 29 | The goal of standardising on an IDL mapping for C++ is to support interoperability between applications written in different languages but supporting OMG 's IDL . |
| 30 | There , in someone 's misbegotten idea of an English country house , sits the flagship of a worldwide , 145- store empire worth an estimated $3 billion , and built on America 's nagging class insecurity . |