Example sentences of "[noun] is [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 On this view , one of the more important problems of methods is to relate these various elements together through some inferential apparatus in systematic ways .
2 The wise heads realised that when a side is given such consistent attacking time points must be scored .
3 The second priority for a systematic communications programme is to provide all relevant information to the employee about his job such as : skills , resources and how flexible he can be ; factors affecting performance ( limits of responsibility , work targets ) ; factors affecting the environment of the job ; changes in any of these .
4 The purpose of these Guidelines is to take these general codes as a starting point and to comment on the practical implications of the responsibility owed by engineers in respect of risk issues , and to provide specific guidance to resolve risk concerns satisfactorily ( see also Guideline 3 , Resolving a Risk Concern , page 12 ) ) .
5 ‘ You 're implying that the KGB is running some big operation in Romania .
6 In Dering Street , Annely Juda is showing several large new wood sculptures by David Nash in an exhibition titled ‘ At the Edge of the Forest ’ ( to 19 June ) .
7 Another fashion in vinyls is to use this light-reflecting finish , and have patterns highlighted by embossing parts of the printed design .
8 The aim of this research is to examine these early decisions by police and prosecutors both before and after the Crown Prosecution Service is introduced .
9 The aim of the current research is to up-date this longitudinal work history data over the subsequent twelve month period up to June 1987 .
10 The purpose of this chapter is to examine some possible answers to these questions and to relate them to the clinical situation .
11 The main purpose of the present chapter is to develop some basic concepts that will be used throughout the subsequent discussion of semantic relations .
12 The purpose of this chapter is to provide several basic wordlists , to point to where more detailed lists ( other than in dictionaries ) may be found , and to comment on certain aspects of orthography .
13 The Island of Taiwan is situated several hundred miles off the Chinese mainland , west of Hong Kong ; Japan lies a few hours ’ plane ride north-west while the Philippines rest a similar distance southwards .
14 The intention is to preserve these original documents for posterity by microfilming them and then providing the microfilm for public use .
15 The salmon sheets Chair , we have shown our estimates of what ideally we would like for the continuing introduction of the Children Act and its requirements , the Criminal Justice Act , and the Warner Reports , but we do recognize , and I think this Committee recognizes , the difficult financial position the County Council finds itself in , and therefore the intention is to meet those unavoidable requirements from within the base budget , and there are no bids in these papers for funding towards those .
16 The overall intention is to provide all interested parties with a clearer appreciation of the real motivations of , and weaknesses behind , marketing decision making , and to lay the foundations for the solving of those marketing problems which may be exposed .
17 ‘ The college is getting enough unwelcome publicity already , without charging one of the fellows with burglary .
18 The motorbike industry is facing some hot competition — from the Chinese .
19 Headline is enjoying this lovely writer , but it is his Cornish sagas we are waiting for , which I am told will make up the next book .
20 Increasingly detailed help pages will be displayed if the key is pressed several more times ; the complete screen will be used for these , temporarily replacing the original page .
21 If his pleasure is to envisage some favoured spot in his own sentiment and predilection , here again he will not be disappointed .
22 Turn out in local elections is approximately forty percent , that figure is covering all local elections .
23 But by the detective novel I mean a book in which the puzzle element is reduced and in which the characters are a good deal more lifelike than those which the blueprint puzzle merchants needed and in which the element of character drawing is given much more weight .
24 AT THE University of Centreville , Maryland , a research programme which its director admits he obtained the money for by a far from rare academic tactic is showing some surprising results about human behaviour .
25 Herself , what Work is done that very Morn ;
26 In social services departments purchasing work is oriented much more towards individuals than in the NHS , where it is oriented around services .
27 The only reliable method of preventing parasitic bronchitis is to immunise all young calves with lungworm vaccine .
28 The plan is to gather some 300 million measurements to improve the way scientists forecast the weather .
29 Yes erm the the aim of the exercise is to record several millions of words of spoken English and they translate them into erm a work
30 For its input resistance to equal the load resistance R L while the attenuation is Combining these last two equations shows that the values of R 1 and R 2 needed for the circuit to perform as required are
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