Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A retired engineer who has collected information on card indexes over 30 years as a member of the World Ship Society is devoting his full time to implementing such a database . |
| 2 | Andrew Holmes is helping our Divisional teamwork . |
| 3 | The board is maintaining its final dividend at 1.8 pence per share , which makes a total of 2.7 pence for the year . |
| 4 | All these people are doing is using their psychic faculties . |
| 5 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Jan. 23 said that Akashi 's appointment had " given the impression that Japan is using its financial muscle to secure more senior UN posts " . |
| 6 | With competition for research funds now especially fierce , the Defense Department is using its bountiful budget for university based science to ‘ sensitise ’ — as one Defense official put it — university scientists to its security concerns . |
| 7 | Even if the interviewer is using your first name she/he will not expect you to return the compliment unless you are specifically asked to do so . |
| 8 | Re-equipment is now in progress , and the purpose of studying it is to see what practical lessons can be learned , which will be of value in future projects . |
| 9 | The best way to illustrate a typical day in the life of the Corps is to see What one man , in this case Warrant Officer Class 2(WO2) C Wilkinson , did on 30 June 1989 . |
| 10 | We all share the same sky and the same passion , which is to see our joint projects take to the air . |
| 11 | It continued : " A people which has so enriched our common civilization is recovering its rightful place in Europe and in the world . " |
| 12 | Er , what we have done , of course , is change our whole attitude er over ten or fifteen years , to part-time employment . |
| 13 | A POLICE federation is to sue its local water authority in an attempt to win compensation for an officer who became ill after saving a man from drowning in a polluted river . |
| 14 | Is make it another grammar or er , opening the English language speech or er ? |
| 15 | Its only response to being disturbed is to erect its dorsal spines . |
| 16 | An addict only stops when he personally comes to the conclusion that his addiction is bringing him more trouble and suffering than pleasure . |
| 17 | ‘ I offered him a bed in our relatives ' hostel , but he prefers to stay at his club , and , as he has this spinal arthritis , is bringing his own car and the man who looks after him . |
| 18 | She 's formed her own production company , Siren Films , and after her ‘ Blonde Ambition ’ tour she plans to make Blessing In Disguise with Beatty again at the helm . |
| 19 | That he 's using his vast profits from drug-smuggling to finance his terrorist activities ? ’ |
| 20 | Yet even if there were short-term cause to rejoice , the mandarins would be wrong to assume that the most effective way out of Japan 's current problems — slow growth , asset-price deflation and a troubled financial sector — is to indulge their strongest instinct : to re-regulate everything . |
| 21 | Or if you 've got a solicitor who is handling your legal affairs , then perhaps they do it er for nothing or cheaply . |
| 22 | NEC Corp is to sample its low power VRX MIPS R4000 derivative by year-end : a 100MHz R4000 implementation is also planned for later in 1993 . |
| 23 | NEC Corp is to sample its low power VRX Mips R4000 derivative by year-end ( UX No 377 ) : a 100MHz R4000 implementation is also planned for 1993 . |
| 24 | National Rivers Authority was also worried because once the section is designated its legal protection would make flood maintenance work difficult . |
| 25 | ‘ And even as America 's administrations change , America 's fundamental interests do not and the greatest gesture of goodwill any nation can make towards me is to continue their full cooperation during this period with our one President , George Bush . ’ |
| 26 | MONTSERRAT , the tiny Caribbean island that once boasted one bank for every 40 inhabitants , is bracing itself this Easter for a spate of arrests following a three-year fraud and corruption investigation by Scotland Yard . |
| 27 | It 's galvanizing her whole metabolism , accelerating her vitality . |
| 28 | She is resting her garlanded head on the fingertips of a red-gloved hand , inserting the large , crystal-clear dildo with the other , her crimson mouth parted and blue-mascara 'd eyes half-shut in rapturous delight as the devoted Koons goes about his business . |
| 29 | Watkinson is resting his broken finger . |
| 30 | BY VOTING overwhelmingly to reject the Vance-Owen peace plan — 51 votes against , two for , with 12 abstentions — the Bosnian Serb parliament is defying its own leaders in Bosnia , its own mentors in Serbia and almost the whole outside world . |