Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 PLANS to turn the site of a former explosives factory at Annan , Dumfriesshire , into Scotland 's top rallying centre were put forward yesterday by the 300-strong Wigton Motor Club which is based a few miles over the Border in Cumbria .
3 We do n't know which is causing the most pain or even which event grieves us the most .
4 Mm , see this is a very difficult one to understand , it takes a lot of er working out , you see then he 's also applied , approached the city you see which is called the same thing is n't it ?
5 Factoring , which is updated every half year , provides an analysis of the industry ; a brief historical guide ; details of all major factoring companies ; the main institutions and regulatory bodies ; and a checklist for those considering factoring .
6 Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate .
7 Here , a 31-year-old fitness instructor reveals how she is suffering the same agonies that drove Joanna to make such a dramatic cry for help .
8 ‘ Maybe she is suffering the same fate as Minginish , ’ he said obscurely .
9 But who is saving the most money ?
10 This help is being offered during my visits to see one of our children who is attending the same school for one day a week .
11 Where a person enters into a covenant to pay sums to another person for a period which can not exceed six years those amounts shall be treated as the income of the person who is paying the same and not the income of any other person ( TA 1988 , s660(1) ) .
12 It 's nice to think that one is eating the same grapes as Anne Boleyn and Nell Gwyn . ’
13 As will be argued more fully below , for many television ‘ reality ’ is political reality and so by negating the former one is controlling the latter .
14 ‘ The perfect solution for him is to do the same as Tom Goddard .
15 Until recently , there have been no established codec standards and one system can only speak to another if it is using the same compression-decompression algorithms .
16 Although IBM says a gateway is possible , it is taking the former approach , and the plan is gradually to convert its most important system software to the architecture .
17 This enables pertinent Objections to be lodged if it is felt the same are relevant .
18 It is following the same eclectic exhibition programme in Berlin , where prints by Willem de Kooning and photographs by contemporary Spanish photographer , Alberto Sommer are currently on view .
19 Already it is having the same effect on Britain .
20 ‘ But it is doing the same vital work in deep space that Captain Cook and his colleagues did in the oceans when they classified longitudes and meridians . ’
21 It is doing the same with another original in October .
22 It is making the most of its favoured situation and gaining an increasing reputation as a bathing place and holiday centre .
23 Today , it is fighting the same war , with the same leaders , as 20 years ago .
24 I would understand it if the Minister were saying merely that he is reorganising the same amount of resources , but he has cut resources .
25 He was not without fault , foolish in his commercial life , reactionary sometimes in his political belief , nevertheless he is entitled no more to the title of the Great Unknown , but now to that of the Great Scotsman .
26 He is playing the same game as missionaries who went to Asia to convert the ‘ heathen Chinee ’ and to Africa to redeem the ‘ dark continent ’ from barbarism .
27 He is putting a few thoughts down on paper .
28 He is planning a few more encounters before he becomes re-eligible for rugby next September .
29 Adams showed the authority and leadership you would expect from a defender who has won 17 caps at senior level but in World Cup terms the most significant performance came from Gascoigne , who cut out the asides and showed some of the tactical discipline he has to acquire if he is to make the most of his natural talent in international football .
30 At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’
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