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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Not surprisingly , this is causing concern amongst parents , teachers and some Government authorities .
2 Right ho hold on , so , so this is taking place within the village ?
3 The effect of this is to allow liquor to be provided for a further hour in the evening in a part of the premises set aside for people taking table meals provided it is consumed as part of the meal .
4 The obvious way to do this is to shine light on the particle .
5 This is called precession of the perihelion , and is not in itself curious because it had long been known that precession of the perihelion is one result of the gravitational influence on a planet 's orbit of all the other planets in the Solar System .
6 This is to take account of the new SVQs now available in sport and recreation .
7 If this is to take place at constant temperature and pressure , the Gibbs free energy of the whole system must remain constant .
8 There is , however , an alternative device which is in practice more commonly used ; this is repeated premultiplication by A of an arbitrary column unc as in 2.6.2 .
9 And we 'd say , ‘ This is Neverending Staircase off an unreleased Rolling Stones album . ’
10 This is to acknowledge receipt of your cheque for one place at the above at the member rate of Five Pounds ( £5.00 ) .
11 The reason behind this is having regard to the advice in the draft P P G thirteen and what we read in P P G twelve about erm trying to reduce dista erm distances travelled .
12 As the cost of funding a loan(s) fluctuates in the interbank market this is taken account of in the determination of interest rates payable by the borrower at pre-arranged reference date intervals of three , six or twelve months as set out in the loan contract .
13 This is to keep sight of the positives for so often professionals working with very vulnerable elderly people focus on the pathology and forget what the client may have going for her/him .
14 The reason they do this is to divert attention from the real problem — the crisis of capitalism manifested in economic failure and unrest ( see , for example , Hall et al. , 1978 , on mugging ) .
15 By this is meant placement of black children in white homes .
16 This is to provide visibility to both sides of the tank from separate rooms .
17 This is termed ego-strengthening in hypnosis and several sessions of such a therapy can be very useful in helping the patient to overcome emotional , mental or even , possibly , spiritual problems .
18 Perhaps the easiest way to begin to explain this is to consider design as a model in practice of human culture in general .
19 In 110 we find straightforward confession : Yet in the same sentence we find specious self-excuses : ‘ but , by all above ’ , — this unusual oath , calling the heavens to witness , is an anticipatory give-away — Well , the disbelieving reader will say , to claim that you betrayed your partner merely to test your love for him , which has supposedly been increased by the experiment — this is to add insult to injury .
20 Apart from the existing roundabout near Rhuddlan Golf Club , another is nearing completion outside the Sainsbury 's store .
21 One signal of worth is current pay , another is perceived performance in the current post .
22 The most difficult task of all is to pass judgement on a child who has given his all , but whom I can no longer see reaching the goal I have set .
23 The answer today to the question whether objects which were originally chattels have become fixtures , that is to say part of the freehold , depends upon the application of two tests : ( 1 ) the method and degree of annexation ; ( 2 ) the object and purpose of the annexation .
24 Einstein next considered the implications of the equivalence principle for motion in free fall , that is to say motion under gravitational forces alone .
25 Mr Clark 's job is to cut the government 's £50 billion deficit and one way he plans to do that is to spread VAT around more widely .
26 Perhaps I should just say a word about that that operation since you 've raised it , because it is one type of job that we do , that is taking part in a rather large group , in this case sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat at the request of the government of Uganda after the fall of erm of Amin , to assess the rehabilitation needs of the country and to suggest what policies should be priority policies for their point of view and what contribution could be made by other countries through aid and erm other ways of technical assistance and fellowships for training and so forth , to help in this rehabilitation .
27 The following sections look at the outreach work that is taking place around the country to make the CAB more accessible to groups who could not otherwise easily reach a bureau .
28 This is the best equation one could use to forecast the current value of that is given knowledge of the current composite disturbance , and is therefore the one which rational agents will use to forecast given their information .
29 Readers may well be familiar with Bristol F.2b Fighter G–AANM that is nearing completion by Aero Vintage it would seem that the Demon is next for their from-the-ground-up treatment .
30 That is concentrating development in partic particular places .
  Next page