Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is quite clear that there is a major shortage of trained manpower in computer science in the US , which is threatening the technological progress of that country and the brain drain from India is helping to mitigate this problem . ’ |
| 2 | Information and cash are two very practical ways that the Campaign is helping encourage more people actively to care for their local surroundings . |
| 3 | If there is an entity identifiable as ‘ the topic of conversation ’ , the analyst should consider what evidence from each individual speaker 's contributions he is using to make that identification . |
| 4 | Tax is deducted from all interest payments at a ‘ composite rate ’ which rate is calculated to yield that amount of tax which would have accrued to the Exchequer had the standard rate been applied only to the interest received by those liable to pay tax . |
| 5 | A new video that 's intended to attract more tourists to Oxford has been condemned by city councillors . |
| 6 | This research is intended to explore these matters through a study of the enforcement machinery of a county court and an examination of social and economic consequences of this machinery for creditors and debtors involved with it . |
| 7 | It is intended to compare these costs with tax revenue ; to examine their incidence ; and to identify the particular areas and causes of high compliance costs . |
| 8 | It is intended to update this listing on a regular basis . |
| 9 | The Act is intended to preserve this state of affairs in section 3(3) , which provides that : |
| 10 | ‘ A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing relative to the subject matter of the indictment or proceeding , without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing , his attention must , before such contradictory proof can be given , be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him : provided always , that it shall be competent for the judge at any time during the trial , to require the production of the writing for his inspection , and he may thereupon make such use of it for the purpose of the trial as he may think fit . |
| 11 | The editors of Arlidge & Parry on Fraud ( 1985 ) , p. 97 , para. 3.39 , express doubt as to whether the term ‘ employment ’ is intended to include any form of paid work or is confined to contracts of employment in the strict sense . |
| 12 | New legislation at the end of the 1980s is intended to take this process further , by reducing the housing stock managed by local authorities . |
| 13 | This chapter is intended to justify those priorities . |
| 14 | The project is intended to remedy this deficiency by examining the use made of mathematical statistics , and particularly of their application in sampling , in the production of Soviet official socio-economic data . |
| 15 | To what extent this is the case is a matter for debate ; however , the fact that trade with the developing nations is intended to play some part is indicated by the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1981–5 and for the Period Ending in 1990 adopted at the 26th CPSU Congress in 1981 , which envisage ‘ [ the development ] , on a long-term and equitable basis , [ of a ] mutually beneficial exchange of goods … with developing countries ’ ( in Koshelev : 1982 , pp. 8–9 ) . |
| 16 | The programme is intended to start this summer with an introduction period of three years . |
| 17 | The term ‘ fuel pump ’ is intended to encompass any type of pump used to dispense fuel for use in vehicles . |
| 18 | Through a survey of 6 publishing companies , differentiated by size and type , it is intended to develop both case studies of companies and research tools to be used in a later industry wide study . |
| 19 | None of these is intended simply to mollify reluctant staff : each is intended to provide more time , to allow a fresh look to be taken or to try out different approaches when there are setbacks . |
| 20 | ‘ So he 's goin' to have another try at takin' Nellie over then ? ’ |
| 21 | Much community education is struggling to achieve that objective . |
| 22 | The scan phase commences and each file in the directory structure , except exclusions , is examined to determine any differences from LIFESPAN held modules . |
| 23 | If someone wants to go from A to B , who else is competing to take that person there ? |
| 24 | So the null hypothesis that the γ coefficients are all zero can not be rejected , and therefore neither the current nor the lagged DM 's appear to have any influence on the rate of unemployment . |
| 25 | The water-conserving Ifö Aqua already has a 6 litre flush , and is claimed to create enough swirl in the bowl to flush efficiently . , , . |
| 26 | The Matisse client software incorporates a micromodel for ease-of-use that is claimed to support any data model and includes an object-oriented template for integration with other applications . |
| 27 | A form of extendible hashing that does not suffer from oscillations and is claimed to outperform most indexing methods , was reported by Lomet He named the method bounded index exponential hashing ; it is not strictly a direct technique , and suffers from the drawback that the file packing density is generally low , but offers many advantages for files which can grow at a rate that can not be accommodated in a static system . |
| 28 | 8.1 The Department is committed to support any member of staff who is assaulted either whilst carrying out their official duties or as a consequence of official duties . |
| 29 | Should the sender require goods to be delivered by a certain date and having shown this date on the consignment note , the carrier is committed to meet that delivery date . |
| 30 | In some services , for example the making of monetary payments through social security in Britain , the necessity for equal treatment throughout the country is considered to override any benefits to be gained from local government involvement and discretion . |