Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The aim of this research is to re-examine this question using large-scale surveys of and the ‘ pool of applicants ’ in the 1992 general election . |
| 32 | The best thing to do is to channel this concern in a positive way by helping them practise revision and exam techniques at home . ’ |
| 33 | Counsel should also ensure that there is annexed any material which counsel would expect the court to note in detail . |
| 34 | The next step is to compare this area of the United Kingdom with other glaciated mid-to high-latitude continental margins in both passive and active tectonic settings . |
| 35 | Not a bad idea , but if the British Wild Boar Association , already bristling with problems , is to combat that threat it must sort out its standards . |
| 36 | The Comédie Française is to perform this year . |
| 37 | The campaign 's just starting , and already it 's generating much attention … proof say De Montfort University authorities that it 's money well spent |
| 38 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality . |
| 39 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality-ometer , and that I have been found wanting . |
| 40 | Bill Morris is organizing another diesel hauled charter train to Carlisle — via the Settle-Carlisle line on Saturday , 30 May 1992 . |
| 41 | They send Christopher round to Ann 's to borrow some butter and a set of batteries for the cassette player . |
| 42 | across and it 's touching that hole in the middle and she 's getting all blocked up and the stuff 's running all the way down the back of your throat , that right ? |
| 43 | The same problem may also arise where the demised property is to include some projection . |
| 44 | However , if the celebration is to continue all evening and the tea and coffee and wedding cake are to be served later , it is possible to delay the cutting of the cake until after the speeches which conclude the meal . |
| 45 | Only acts whose purpose is to realize this result are promises ; not so consent . |
| 46 | To introduce canonised solicitors into the Supreme Court of the universe is to disrupt this system . |
| 47 | Suppose the lesson a spirit has chosen to learn in one lifetime is to renounce any form of violence . |
| 48 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 49 | To submit to unemployment or slums or want , to let children go hungry or sick and old unattended , for fear of increasing the internal national debt , is to lose all sense of proportion . ’ |
| 50 | Now while it is plausible to argue that consumption expenditure will partly depend upon the real value of private sector net worth , to concentrate all attention on a tiny fraction of this magnitude is to lose all sense of proportion . |
| 51 | So what I really want to do this month , well what I really want to do this month , is to lose some weight . |
| 52 | Because what it will be possible to do quite easily is to connect these word processors to the telephone system and transmit erm the letter from one place to the other . |
| 53 | Small wonder that display technology is generating such interest worldwide and why electronics companies do not want to be excluded from this technology . |
| 54 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 55 | And anyway , it could also be argued that it is the accounting system which is allowing this manipulation ( perhaps even inducing it ) and therefore the accounting system should be modified to prevent it . |
| 56 | ‘ It 's encouraging that work is being made which refuses this ridiculous demand for positive images , which tries to take on multiple aspects of identity . |
| 57 | If specific information about pupils ' ability , eligibility for free school meals , any disabilities etc. is required , then a painstaking search is undertaken each time for the particular piece of information required . |
| 58 | Cleanaway can take liquid PCBs at its Ellesmere Port establishment , where it is building another plant which will take capacity there to 48,000 tonnes annually . |
| 59 | The extension at the end of the volume name is incremented each time a new volume in the set is opened , for example : STDMAN.002 , STDMAN.003 and so on . |
| 60 | Look whoever 's editing this tape you 've seen the cunt . |