Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone in the community believes that someone is shielding the two youths . |
| 2 | Someone is closing the double doors of the shrine , fastening the chain latch , and firelight flickers out dimly between the slats . |
| 3 | The United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association , which is meeting the legal costs of the nuns ' case , was ‘ pleased and surprised ’ with the ruling that the nuns should be paid the full market price of £1.42 each for the birds if they were slaughtered . |
| 4 | But also with it comes erm office accommodation which is handling the clerical processing , ordering and so on of the business itself . |
| 5 | It is estimated that about 15 per cent of the population , mostly in the rural areas , earn less than Z$100 a year , and it is this group which is facing the most difficulties in keeping their children at school . |
| 6 | I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 . |
| 7 | It is this so-called " genetic engineering " aspect which is receiving the greatest attention . |
| 8 | Miles too had been invited to join the Arts Council 's literature panel , an offer which was promptly rescinded after Goodman got to hear of it , and which prompted a poem for page two of It on 27 February 1967 , from Adrian Mitchell , suggesting that such an appointment would ‘ disrupt the council 's true intent which is to fill the entire interior of the Royal Opera House with tins of chunkydogmeat and the rest of England with custard of the kind which thickens and grows a skin on top ’ . |
| 9 | Mrs Mary McDonald , Diocesan President , in her address to the members , reminded us of the aims and objects of the U.C.M. , one of which is to uphold the Sacramental Dignity of Marriage and to maintain Christian values in family life . |
| 10 | According to the Archangelsk-based newspaper , Volna , Moscow radio reported that the units would be financially independent , funding themselves in part by collecting titanium scrap " which is littering the entire tundra landscape from Mezen to the Yamal and beyond , in the form of wreckage from the first stages of rockets launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome " . |
| 11 | Performance Bonus IBOA identified its concern in relation to a new Performance Bonus which is replacing the old Profit Sharing Scheme in NIB . |
| 12 | Erm , and therefore you 're thrown back at er finding something else , this sort of vague compromise of director of this that or this that and the other , er , er , appeared , and er it seems to me A long winded , er but also , it indicates something against what you 've already tried to do , which is to merge the two together . |
| 13 | Robert Cooper has donated a magnificent Normead heifer as the first prize to the draw , and Dalgety Agriculture sponsored all the printing and promotional costs along with Herdwise , which is supplying the second prize of 10 semen straws . |
| 14 | Plant Genetic Systems , the company which is developing the herbicide-resistant crops , has made a deal with the Hoechst chemical company which gives the latter the right to exploit the patent on crops resistant to Basta , which is in fact one of Hoechst 's own products . |
| 15 | A push button switches in the amp 's ‘ Enhance ’ circuitry , the effect of which is to condition the high order harmonics of the distorted sound , reputedly offering a less ‘ fizzy ’ tone than one might expect from a transistor amp . |
| 16 | I 'm part of the workforce which is creating the direct change in my society . |
| 17 | The lease contained the normal covenants for the payment of rent , full repairing covenants , a user covenant confined to the business of ‘ home improvement contractors , ’ and the usual qualified covenant against assignment , to which is appended the following proviso : |
| 18 | This is the education system , he charges , which is producing the cultural bureaucrats who are turning the national patrimony of France into an amusement park for tourists ) . |
| 19 | Th it 's been pinpointed for us that all these lovely tea , coffee , and chocolate which we all adore , is , is one of the things which is causing the greatest distress and unfairness in the world . |
| 20 | We do n't know which is causing the most pain or even which event grieves us the most . |
| 21 | Restrictions on water use have been imposed this month in areas of the south and east of the country , which is experiencing the worst drought this century . |
| 22 | The results of the latest 24-hour workshop are now beginning to bear fruit in Juan 's view , as plans are now in place to strengthen relationships with customers such as Kansai , Tokyo Electric Power and Japan Nuclear Fuels Limited , which is building the large nuclear fuel cycle complex at Rokkashomura . |
| 23 | DDE , which is targeting the traditional mainframe market , claims to have 2,500 SuperMax sites in Europe . |
| 24 | It seems an odd word until you discover that this little boy was born with a devastating skin condition which is baffling the medical world and making his young life a misery . |
| 25 | A spokesman for Merseyside Development Corporation , which is spearheading the multi-million pound regeneration of the resort , said they hoped to start the housing scheme in January . |
| 26 | Commercial Manager Richard Waterhouse and his father Rom , explained the long term aim , which is to purchase the remaining section of the former North Staffordshire Railway Churnet Valley line from Leekbrook Junction to Oakmoor Sand Sidings ( Hepworth Minerals Moneystone Quarry ) . |
| 27 | The Revenger 's Tragedy Debate still rages over whether the play was written by Tourneur or Middleton , but its unlikely to make much difference to the Cambridge Theatre Company which is relocating the Jacobean drama to New York in the '40s . |
| 28 | But , two years later , he is presiding over a government which is clobbering the poorest in our society harder than anyone else . |
| 29 | From such protests , and meetings in family homes , grew the Stroud based Menigitis Trust , which is organising the first international conference , being held in Britain next week , aimed at wiping out the disease . |
| 30 | Er what I have chosen to do is to do what we were doing in the nineteen eighties , which is to take the simplest measure of the maximum flow and the detrusor pressure at that volume and when we do that , you can see that these patients , instead of being a single group of patients with a single kind of bladder pressure and flow , these patients are all over the map . |