Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM is bringing back two retired executives , Paul Rizzo and Kasper Cassani , to help chairman John Akers run the joint . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Remington-Hart is bringing in two private nurses who have worked with him previously . |
| 3 | Now the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) is to carry out more detailed tests to assess the extent of areas affected . |
| 4 | Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him . |
| 5 | Always a champion of monogamy , she is cooking up some fancy new diseases . |
| 6 | Consider this brief passage , from an essay by a non-native speaker ( numbers have been added to identify sentences ) : [ 1 ] One of the functions of a literary work is to pass on some crucial truths or information , give some didactic indications , or convince the reader of some general laws . |
| 7 | While Chorus is signing up some impressive allies , including the Santa Cruz Operation , Tandem , ICL and Inmos , Carnegie-Mellon 's Mach has found favour with the US defense industry . |
| 8 | So what we are aiming to do is to set up more joint projects , like the one on financial instruments , where we have been working very closely with Canada . |
| 9 | They are fascinated by it and she is picking up French fast , compensating for five months out of school . |
| 10 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |
| 11 | The most feasible way to reduce the number of visitors to one area is to open up more scenic spots and footpaths in another . |
| 12 | In suggesting ways in which the shifting structures of repetition and difference can be traced , what it has attempted to do is to open up some new contexts , both theoretical and institutional , in which texts and genres can be thought , and to reopen some old points of difficulty which still serve as sticking-points against the slide into accommodation . |
| 13 | Newbridge Networks Inc , Ottawa , Ontario is dressing up three Asynchronous Transfer Mode hubs for launch this month , according to a report in Communications Week International . |
| 14 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 15 | Downstream , the Bartensham section is turning up some good roach . |
| 16 | Typical of the modern technology which is turning out good commercial wines . |
| 17 | Inside , what people used to call ‘ the disco ’ is pumping out relentless spartan techno grooves for the wide-eyed masses . |
| 18 | I take that as part of the Labour party 's approach to defence procurement , which is to tick off each individual project , factory or programme whenever it comes before the House and to say that it fully endorses it . |
| 19 | Philip Wilbraham has built a group quickly by taking advantage of lower prices , Philip Ames is buying up cheap high street sites for 4 Play Records and Roger Myers , who has already built and sold one restaurant group , is now doing it all again . |
| 20 | This gives it a bite that is lacking in much sociological research , which remains descriptive and under-theorized , and which sees all meaning systems as logically equal . |
| 21 | The organisation is to give out 100,000 anti-informer leaflets in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland warning people to stay away from the RUC stating such a move , ‘ could save a life , including your own ’ . |
| 22 | He 's sending out two National horses this year . |
| 23 | Having tried out just about all the object-oriented databases out there , and signed agreements with the developers of quite a few , IBM Corp 's Programming Systems Division is phasing out all other agreements and signed a strategic partnership agreement with Object Design Inc ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 24 | Max Henry , who 's kicked around NeXT Inc for the last four-and-a-half years in sales and software recruitment roles , mostly recently holding the post of VP and general manager , Asia Pacific , has jumped shipped to head up the American arm of windowing house JSB as president . |
| 25 | Apart from this , the 1994 budget 's main feature is to put off some hard decisions on weapons-procurement . |
| 26 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 27 | The only role of the Labour party is to stir up any bad news that it can get hold of to give a bad image of Wales . |
| 28 | In any case she thinks it is just a matter of time before more women start coming through to senior levels , both because the company is taking on more female graduates and because they are a pretty self-confident lot anyway . |
| 29 | And that was only about a minute of the game gone and I dare say er Ian whose place he 's taking on that left-hand side would have relished that kind of opportunity . |
| 30 | Every diocese that is actively pursuing the problem has appointed a Redundant Churches Uses Committee whose task it is to seek out suitable alternative uses . |