Example sentences of "[is] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I 've heard him speak before , he s got a great Yorkshire accent for a Welsh lad . |
| 2 | Bob is helping a dozen patients at Stoke Mandeville to prepare for a new independent life . |
| 3 | An Collins 's expression of self-effacing humility is better than Herbert 's in the sense that Collins 's humility is paramount where Herbert is maintaining a strong concept of self and , indeed , self-applause . |
| 4 | The arguments in favour of the provision of an outer bypass for Edinburgh , designed to a high standard , are so overwhelming that Lothian Regional Council is maintaining a continuing construction programme aimed at completion of the entire bypass by 1990 . |
| 5 | Jackie is maintaining an optimistic outlook for the future . |
| 6 | It may therefore be assumed that a manager is maintaining an adequate policy if the competitive position is being maintained and projections indicate that it is likely to be maintained in future . |
| 7 | the best thing to do , check with the Health Board , they 'll the only other way is to go a certain distance into nowadays |
| 8 | To link small variations in a single protein with the existence of an all-purpose ‘ addictive personality ’ is to go a long way too far . |
| 9 | At least one major centre is using a continuous intravenous insulin infusion for all diabetics with infarcts ( Lamb , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | One of the most common reasons for a machine not stitching correctly is using a blunt needle or an incorrect size of needle for the fabric and thread . |
| 11 | Steilmann , working in conjunction with leading scientists and investing , to date , DM 5 million , is using a new manufacturing process . |
| 12 | In collaboration with the Institute of Hydrology BGS is using a digital terrain model to represent geochemical data from a catchment . |
| 13 | You can always tell someone who is using a digital watch . |
| 14 | The most popular method or organic farming is using a multi-culture system in which crops are grown and livestock reared . |
| 15 | An operating team from Princess Margaret is using a spare theatre at the RAF Hospital . |
| 16 | The wind is about Force 4 here and Ken is using a large sail . |
| 17 | However , I wonder if the Institute is using a different version of FRS 1 from mine . |
| 18 | From this internal knowledge of Belfast English we can conclude that the speaker who says [ ku : ] for queue is using a careful style strategy to avoid the palatalized segment ( see my comments on avoidance of stigma in chapter 2.6 , above ) , which is a strongly regional marker and also a marker of older male speech . |
| 19 | He is using a human child as research material , removing him from what everybody — our readers — must regard as a normal human life . |
| 20 | That our instinctive loathing for the way Dr. Briant is manipulating human life , is using a human child as a lever to open the box that holds God 's secrets about life , our response , I say , is not reactionary , not the stupid fears of little men , but is born of our awareness of the dangers of knowing too much , is a God-given warning , if you like . |
| 21 | We must remember that he had started his active life as a lawyer and as a student of rhetoric , and he is using a common figure of rhetoric , hyperbole , within carefully controlled limits . |
| 22 | Trafalgar House Construction 's Open Learning Centre is using a television-based management training resource as a key element in the development of management skills and work based competence . |
| 23 | These questions relate to whether the school is using a single or dual disk drive and what type of printer is being used . |
| 24 | Within media studies , on the other hand , the temptation is to see a pre-given social identity of race , class , gender limiting the possibilities of infinite variety , so that readings are not so much ‘ produced ’ in particular settings as assumed to be the product of a fixed exchange between the reader 's social position and the text . |
| 25 | My aim is to see a strong and united country in which people work together with common aims . |
| 26 | They usually pose no problems but sometimes the upper tushes are high enough to interfere with the bit which should be especially considered if the horse is to wear a double bridle . |
| 27 | NOT the least onerous of the Hong Kong Governor 's duties is to wear a big fore-and-aft hat billowing with goose feathers . |
| 28 | My own solution is to wear a one-piece smock that fits over my head . |
| 29 | I 'm coming up a hill near some kind of huge church or cathedral — there must 've been a service or a concert going on because people are pouring out — one of them 's singing a high trill and her boyfriend 's cross : ‘ Please , Miranda ! |
| 30 | One moment Harvey sounds like she 's trapped in a particularly unpleasant psychodrama , the next she 's singing an exuberant snatch of I 'm Gon na Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair . |