Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 2 | Dan Goldin , the self-professed ‘ agent of change ’ who has been NASA 's administrator for a year , is using it as an opportunity to demonstrate what NASA could be capable of . |
| 3 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 4 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |
| 5 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 6 | ‘ Nowadays somebody who uses the word nigger is seen as racist , whereas Biggles is using it in a neutral sense that 's no longer there . ’ |
| 7 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |
| 8 | She sounds an emotional mess , and is using you as a substitute for her lost love . |
| 9 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 10 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 11 | ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’ |
| 12 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 13 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 14 | A good way to understand The Lord of the Rings in its full complexity is to see it as an attempt to reconcile two views of evil , both old , both authoritative , both living , each seemingly contradicted by the other . |
| 15 | All right , the little sod 's reminding me of the truth , so I 'll tell it . ) |
| 16 | Yeah i well he 's just distressed cos I think Gill 's phoning him in the morning and she said she 'd give him a lift to the hospital . |
| 17 | I mean I , I mean I du n no I mean I just , I just ha , I just had to tell you because I mean it really is pissing me off the way fucking Catherine treats me , she was alright before like and when I 'm on my own , no |
| 18 | He is reminding us of the way we are coming to the Lord . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 20 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |
| 21 | The best way to explain Message Queue Interface is to compare it with a standard remote procedure call , where a client sends a request to another machine and waits for the response . |
| 22 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 23 | A stop gate provides protection as the canal approaches the aqueduct which is to carry it across the River Tame ( Feb 83 guide ) and between a sewage works and an electricity substation . |
| 24 | The aim is to scrutinize it with a view to stopping it coming through the door next time . |
| 25 | Ideally , of course , the best support for any kind of camera is to mount it on a tripod , but tripods are awkward things to carry and they also have a dampening effect on spontaneity . |
| 26 | The quickest comparison is to liken it to the replacement branches mentioned above , shoot ( a ) in Fig. 5 , for example . |
| 27 | The simplest way to do this is to plant it in a dark-coloured , bottomless bucket sunk into the ground . |
| 28 | There are two ways to make an application protocol-independent : the first is to re-write it , incorporating MPTN , the second is to connect it to a separate gateway that will do the conversion . |
| 29 | Mrs Lydan 's husband Bill died last year but she 'd kept dozens of stones , and pieces of jewellery which he 's given her over the years . |
| 30 | ‘ Martin and his team keep kicking the ball into the penalty area and all I have to do is nod it into the net , ’ the 31-year-old rider said . |