Example sentences of "[verb] is [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blackcaps have begun wintering in the British Isles , instead of Spain , a change in migratory behaviour that scientists suggest is linked to global warming . |
| 2 | Another way in which initially simple models of language comprehension have had to be modified is illustrated by another topic we discussed in this chapter , namely , the relation between syntactic and semantic processing . |
| 3 | The organisers hope their movement , which they say is supported by many Muslim organisations , will persuade the Government to order an inquiry into the Rushdie affair . |
| 4 | The objection just considered is linked to another , or rather , to a positive proposal as to condition-sets and their effects . |
| 5 | The stator of each stack has a number of poles Fig.l.3(b) shows an example with four poles — and a part of the phase winding is wound around each pole to produce a radial magnetic field in the pole . |
| 6 | It may be that a new course is still in the planning stages , or that what you want is offered at another local centre . |
| 7 | She said , ‘ All I want is to speak to one of the doctors . ’ |
| 8 | The Giant Pope whom he encounters is turned into Giant Mahometan . |
| 9 | Since the Ministers presenting this legislation hardly ever travel by bus , the least they can do is to listen to those who do so daily . |
| 10 | The character can not benefit by what he or she now knows and all the reader can do is reflect on all that has been lost or missed . |
| 11 | Okay what I 'll do is go through this and you can ask questions as we go through . |
| 12 | So if you 're doing A level psychol y'know I think perhaps you ought to say , ok what we 'll do is go for less depth but a more general approach . |
| 13 | What we wan na do is think of some buildings and describe them to ourselves and then work out what style , cos the thing is since the 1960s , styles like we want , like a progression of styles till the 1990s and see what 's changed and what 's stayed . |
| 14 | All I can do is land on all your . |
| 15 | What we must do is to distinguish between bogus and genuine refugees . |
| 16 | What she does not do is believe for one moment that Rainbow has been possessed by some kind of demon . |
| 17 | All we can do is accept with deceitful grace . |
| 18 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 19 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 20 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 21 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 22 | Now we committee erm with the resignation of Joan as ticket and subscription secretary , so all I can do is ask for any nominations from the floor , please or any volunteer who would like to follow Joan . |
| 23 | ‘ Then all we can do is act like civilised adults and agree to differ , ’ she said , hearing herself sound like an agony aunt trotting out hackneyed advice . |
| 24 | The site of Castlerigg stone circle in the Lake District is an example , where the plateau on which it is sited is surrounded on all sides by mountain peaks . |
| 25 | Generally speaking , rechunking is done for two main reasons : ( a ) the source text is divided into chunks ( whether sections , paragraphs , sentences , or clauses ) that are either too long or too short in terms of target-language average chunking of similar material ; or ( b ) the nature of the target audience is different in terms of level of specialization , age , etc . |
| 26 | All the guy who 's pushing on has done is got from one holdup to the next holdup quicker than the next feller . |
| 27 | What we have done is to concentrate on two particular themes . |
| 28 | Learning by remembering is applied in many situations and under different names . |
| 29 | Everything Nicolas or Bridget says is wrapped in inverted commas , which open as the character opens his mouth and close as he closes it . |
| 30 | For the convenience of the hard of hearing an induction loop is installed in this theatre . |