Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM 's OS/2 launch manager Pat James says she is addressing the high street sales outlets , such as Dixons and the computer superstore in Croydon . |
| 2 | Make sure that the baby 's body is facing the breast and that he or she is taking the whole nipple to fill its mouth . |
| 3 | To see that she is receiving the correct amount of occupational pension ( if any ) that is due to her . |
| 4 | And she is using the 20th-Century surgeon 's art to turn herself into a living version of classical beauties painted by the Old Masters , from Greek goddesses to the Mona Lisa . |
| 5 | For the first time in her professional career as a soloist she is forsaking the large concert venues to take her music to some of the remoter parts of Scotland in a tour being sponsored by British Telecom . |
| 6 | If you are caring for an elderly parent who is at some stage of grieving for a lost partner , whether she is experiencing the shattering despair that follows soon after bereavement , or the long sad loneliness and feeling of deprivation characteristic of its later stages , her deepest need will be for your practical and emotional support during her period of sorrow and adjustment . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher will today announce that she is to double the British contribution of £3 million to the UN Environment Project in Nairobi and give new money to tropical rain forest schemes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe she is suffering the same fate as Minginish , ’ he said obscurely . |
| 10 | Yet , she is running the slimmest Cabinet machine since before the Second World War . |
| 11 | He points out that now she is cohabiting the only benefit she will get is the basic dole . |
| 12 | But friends of Countess Spencer say she has told them she is spending the festive season at Mougins in France with her great friend Jacqueline de Ribes . |
| 13 | Here she is assessing the likely outcome of a confrontation with her local council . |
| 14 | As a volunteer , she is to advise the new Alzheimer 's Society centre on the Teesdale complex . |
| 15 | Erm with without a new settlement erm that that was indeed the the impression that erm I was left with as well , and what what we 've sought to do in in the evidence that we 've we 've put before you is to take the nine seven , nine thousand seven hundred figure in Greater York , and and er s based on the data supplied by the County Council to demonstrate that that actually when one looks at outstanding commitments erm with planning permission , identified the sites er without planning permission , those those that are allocated in local plans , making suitable allowances for small sites erm windfall sites and conversion , erm the the residual figure that is left in Greater York , which I calculate to be eight thousand six hundred and thirty seven , once one has taken away completions , which I think is an agreed figure between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three of one thousand and sixty three , that erm , those existing commitments , and the sites likely to come forward , ma virtually match the figure for the outstanding housing requirement , so so one is left with a view that erm from from the data that 's put in front of us that there is n't a residue of that size to accommodate , although I accept that there may well be a residue of some sort , erm and it seems to me that the established Greater York erm framework , er is is the process by which that is distributed around the counties along the lines that the discussion 's proceeded this morning . |
| 16 | ‘ The perfect solution for him is to do the same as Tom Goddard . |
| 17 | She writes : ‘ To meet him is to confront the unexpected , and a brain that operates so quickly you need to engage your own grey matter at the gallop . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To say that God did it is to give the ultimate cause and to give meaning to it . |
| 20 | The sad truth of the matter is that Group 4 has such low levels of performance to live up to that already , despite its much publicised failures , the Home Secretary is able to claim that it is outperforming the public services it is replacing . |
| 21 | Mountain View , California-based Starlight Networks Inc has announced it is to support the new Ungermann-Bass Inc DragonSwitch on its StarWorks video networking software : the software runs on an 80486 EISA computer , giving it video application server capabilities , and supports up to 20 users . |
| 22 | Apart from containing pictures of part of the scene where it is said the violent disorder had taken place and an incident leading up to the arrival of the police which was held to be part of the res gestae , the tape would have been useful to establish alibis some defendants wished to rely upon in respect of their presence in the club at a relevant time and the timing between significant incidents . |
| 23 | ‘ If it is said the constitutional position is not affected then that is the position . |
| 24 | Originally , the cross celebrated the vernal equinox and the rites of spring associated with the goddess Eostre , from whose name it is said the Venerable Bede derived the name for Easter . |
| 25 | Because there are three parts to this definition it is called the tripartite definition or the tripartite account ; it defines propositional knowledge , knowledge that p ; it does not define knowledge by acquaintance as in ‘ a knows James ’ nor knowledge-how , e.g. knowledge how to ride a bicycle , unless these can be shown to reduce to knowledge-that . |
| 26 | The cone is drawn with and marks out all the possible light paths through P 1 ; it is called the light cone at P 1 . |
| 27 | It is called the Red House because it is built of deep red brick , an unusual medium for a man of means , who was normally expected to build in something nobler . |
| 28 | Sometimes it is called the laminar sub-layer , but that is less accurate as it contains large velocity fluctuations ; and are free to rise more rapidly from the wall than . |
| 29 | In America it is called the thick-billed murre , and it is closely related to the common guillemot which breeds in large numbers on the cliffs of Shetland . |
| 30 | It is called the Ten Day Thermo Active Body Contouring Treatment and it contains methyl nicotinate . |