Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They include threats to its hardware , its software and its networking system , as well as the weakness of the US economy , which is affecting many other suppliers . |
| 2 | Mr Ingermalls added : ‘ Perhaps it 's some underwater current that we are unaware of which is causing this unusual phenomenon . ’ |
| 3 | Not content with this , it is the German government which is demanding that further political power be transferred to the Community level , especially the European Parliament , where they will have the strongest presence , in virtue of the fact that Germany is now 50% more populous than any other European country . |
| 4 | Now as part of an annual goal which is to run some public courses later on in the year , erm , I 've broken that down in a way that I may go through later , to things that I have to do on , on a month by month basis , and this month I need to create the mailing list . |
| 5 | The killings may deal a severe blow to the electoral prospects of the Congress Party of the Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , which is contesting all 10 parliamentary seats in Punjab . |
| 6 | The basic unit is a text , by which is meant any single document , or any stretch of natural language regarded as a self-contained unit for processing purposes . |
| 7 | Much of the research in parallel computing is carried out within the Research Division of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre which is investigating those fundamental aspects of parallel computing which can lead to the development of new and improved systems and user support tools . |
| 8 | Once back in their units , if selected for promotion to sergeant , they attend the production supervisor course which is angled much more towards management . ’ |
| 9 | GUSHIEST COMMENT : ‘ The greatest thing you can do do when you love somebody is to make another human being . ’ |
| 10 | Miss Anthony 's London agent tells me : ‘ Lysette is filming The Hour of The Pig , in France , at the moment and it is true she is discussing some forthcoming projects , but I can not tell you what they are . ’ |
| 11 | After the award Mrs Green 's solicitor Raymond Donn , who is handling another 60 cases involving dead and injured servicemen , said people should not be frightened of claiming from the Ministry of Defence . |
| 12 | I am besides about to be deserted by my husband , who is to go this next week to Rome to prepare the way for the Brownings . |
| 13 | I would therefore be grateful to learn from Benoit Rudloff , who is buying these 1700 ploughs or , as I suspect , respectfully suggest to Mr Rudloff that maybe has had picked up some duff information over the past two years ! ! |
| 14 | He may not know a word of Burmese but he will share a fag with the interested Burman who is watching all that is going on , and as they puff away together contentedly , something intangible will pass from the one to the other . |
| 15 | Firstly , who is to say that other subjects — like witchcraft , feminism , radical politics , etc. — may not in time be induced in Section 28 . |
| 16 | So who is getting all that extra money in between ? |
| 17 | We have a guest who is sitting all alone . ’ |
| 18 | The man given the task of bringing the legend to life is Chelmsford-born Alex Bourne who is relishing this unabashed , foot-stomping , hand-clapping piece of rock and roll history . |
| 19 | The other thing I ask of you is to do some initial reading around the lectures . |
| 20 | The questions related to these aims ask about such matters as how often the child is read to and whether s/he is attending any pre-school facility : factors known to link with future success in school ( Newson and Newson , 1977 ; Osborn and Milbank , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 22 | I think two of the big changes that I would like to see happening , and I think are beginning to happen , one is to put much less stress on the content of history , which in many cases is , is less important , than the learning the skills of a historian . |
| 23 | It 's a fairly low risk erm threat at the moment , air strikes are cheap er they 're not particularly dangerous whether they 're effective or not is another matter , er and there 's no immediate come back on the domestic scene because no one is expecting any one state to be the saviour in that particular situation . |
| 24 | If one is to avoid this simple circularity , then one must explain standing for in terms of some natural relation between particulars . |
| 25 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |
| 26 | It is said that commercially-grown winter lettuce is sprayed More times than a Rolls Royce , which seems an excellent reason for growing your own organic winter salads . |
| 27 | A horse standing perfectly in the show ring , with its ears nicely pricked , may indicate that it is cross by pressing its lips tightly together , as if it is refusing some nasty-tasting medicine . |
| 28 | The company now says that it is producing some 20 million metres of VHS tape per month — enough to fill more than 100 000 cassettes . |
| 29 | The 13th reform were believed to be sufficient to allow locos to work over the bridge and it is understood that 37/4 's will not be allowed over . |
| 30 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |