Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A useful starting point is to go back twenty years to a time when computers were still huge , unfriendly devices demanding air-conditioned environments and costing millions . |
| 2 | To coincide with the exhibition , which runs until 8 June , the Belgian artist is bringing out two books : Lettre suit , published by Gallimard , and Travaux d'imprimerie , by Galilée . |
| 3 | The internal market is bringing about profound changes in the NHS . |
| 4 | Why are we discussing events that happen 12 years ago , talk about that season is bringing back painful memories . |
| 5 | Staff at the complex will shortly embark on training in disability awareness and Derry City Council is to carry out extensive renovations to the complex to improve access and comfort for people with disabilities . |
| 6 | Er , that 's totalled up three weeks . |
| 7 | Defence Secretary Rifkind is reported to be grateful for support from the fourteen military minded Conservatives whose confidential letter to the Prime Minister was somehow left lying on a copying machine for a Labour researcher to find , but he is irritated by the leak , an insider murmurs that Malcolm 's notching up black marks for the future . |
| 8 | A man who 's carried out two rapes and six indecent assaults in Milton Keynes , is believed to have struck again . |
| 9 | Each section of the deck of the road is carried on sliding bearings , to allow for expansion of the sections . |
| 10 | Of the three windows , the large central one is carried on carved figures , an unusual design , which has much in common with the façade at Spoleto Cathedral , of similar date , but with a later porch in front . |
| 11 | The purpose of the pre-hearing assessment is to sift out those applications which are unlikely to succeed . |
| 12 | The central purpose is to hammer out long-term strategies for the nation as a whole . |
| 13 | One frame of the film is exposed every six seconds and if the film is then shown at 24 frames a second , the motion is speeded up 144 times and provides a dramatic picture of the cells ' behaviour . |
| 14 | The next priority is to screen out those inquiries which are unlikely to result in a sale . |
| 15 | The DTI is to set up working groups to examine the scope for change in some of the most complex areas of company law . |
| 16 | The technique in the experiments is to set up two photo-detectors on either side of the calcium or mercury source , preceded immediately by polarisers that allow through only those photons polarised in one direction ( Figure 1a ) . |
| 17 | One of the growing practices in modern legislation is to set up supervisory bodies , or ‘ watchdogs ’ , to monitor the effects of the law in society . |
| 18 | But better still , if you decide you are going to fish the same one or two swims each time , is to set up permanent anchors . |
| 19 | Erm and now very quickly again because , it 's filling up all gaps between this bottom row and the top row of the spreadsheet . |
| 20 | Alan Eastwood believes the the answer is to lock up young offenders instead of releasing them to commit further crimes . |
| 21 | However misinterpretation is always possible and it is also very possible that Bill is picking up other signals about John which John is not aware he 's sending . |
| 22 | Painting software 's most practical use is to clean up scanned-in photographs to improve the output quality . |
| 23 | However for the new effort it is seeking out three types of indirect channel : simple resellers for the adaptor boards and a mixture of systems integrators and US OEM partners for the software side . |
| 24 | Erm Rob and Polly 's mum 's picking Simon up and taking him home and erm , Annette 's picking up most nights Gary 's gon na be home just after four so it 's actually someone to take them home . |
| 25 | But there he was , going round the flower shop , accompanied by this assistant who 's picking out great armfuls of flowers . |
| 26 | A man is passing round some morsels of raw heart and liver . |
| 27 | The idea is to pick up individual blocks , move them around and drop them next to matching blocks to make them disappear . |
| 28 | We go straight down and straight back and the only thing we stop for is to pick up some women at Beni Suef ! ’ |
| 29 | Then , assuming " phantom " chains , the change in free energy per chain as the end-to-end vector R changes to is Averaging over all chains and remembering that we have For a network of n chains per unit volume the change in free energy will be n times this . |
| 30 | What a gyro does do , however , is to damp out unwanted movements and allow the pilot more time to react . |