Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 2 | The former Cardiff winger has his faults but so far he has adapted well to his new code and in a Bradford side playing more expansively these days is seeing plenty of the ball . |
| 3 | Mr Kelly has made a formal complaint against the police and is to lodge one against the ambulance service . |
| 4 | It 's given everyone at the club a lift . ’ |
| 5 | Keegan is demanding nothing like the £4,000 a week figure that has been bandied about . |
| 6 | ‘ After several decades of decline , cinema-going is enjoying something of a renaissance . |
| 7 | It also points out that while the UK is enjoying something of an export boom the industry needs to stimulate home sales to allow for continued export investment . |
| 8 | At the same time , this division is so entrenched in our education system that a student who wishes to cross the cultural boundary and study both areas is considered something of an oddity . |
| 9 | Where once lifetime employment was said to be the key factor behind high productivity levels , the need to reduce labour costs now means that ‘ Lifetime employment is becoming something of a curse to Japanese industries ’ ( FTW 12/3/83 ) . |
| 10 | The dichotomy between the ‘ British ’ and ‘ Scottish ’ Labour parties is becoming something of a cause celebre is it not ? |
| 11 | Howard is becoming something of an expert on the theory of social work , in fact ; Rose is doing it , too . |
| 12 | Is this independent , single parent who does n't stand for any of Barry Brant 's messin' anything like the real Hilary ? |
| 13 | But she 's becoming something of an obsession with Ryan , particularly since his wife 's death . |
| 14 | What I would like is to know something about the job I came here to do . |
| 15 | ‘ The room you 've got at the Palace Hotel is causing something of a problem , ’ she informed me . |
| 16 | The very first thing which they do is to destroy something on the island , which shows their masculinity . |
| 17 | And I said , If somebody 's serving somebody in the shop and perhaps they you know two of three of them perhaps together , I said , but do n't talk in the shop I said , go through to the back if you want to chat . |
| 18 | Kylie , who 's undergone something of a radical image change in the last few months , has just released her new album , ‘ Let's Get To It ’ . |
| 19 | He 's writing something for the films , he says . |
| 20 | One is sometimes left with the feeling that he is presenting one with an interpretation cast in stone , with all unwelcome impurities filtered away — the ‘ perfect ’ solution , if you like . |
| 21 | There is no money , the country is in a crisis from which there seems no way out , and anyone who wants hard currency is selling anything of the slightest interest . |
| 22 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 23 | But for each individual student , the best thing is to put everything into the private account . |
| 24 | It is understood none of the three have been informed there is to be disciplinary hearing but a file is in the hands of Deputy Chief Constable Michael Argent who is in charge of force discipline . |
| 25 | All that matters is getting one over the trader . |
| 26 | Your mum 's , your mum 's getting one in a minute |
| 27 | Is not the truth of the matter not only that the Secretary of State is doing nothing about the housing needs of the service men and women who will be made redundant , but that he does not even know the facts ? |
| 28 | One 42-year-old market trader who did not want to be named , said : ‘ It is good to know that there is someone who is doing something about the problem . ’ |
| 29 | Locke 's philosophy about property accepted the settlers ' point of view : in his theory it is the man on the spot who is doing something to the land ( though mainly by directing the labour of the people he has brought over at his own expense ) who is justly entitled to ownership . |
| 30 | But in the second the word ‘ ride ’ suggests that the man is doing something to the horse . |