Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [pron] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 2 | Dan Goldin , the self-professed ‘ agent of change ’ who has been NASA 's administrator for a year , is using it as an opportunity to demonstrate what NASA could be capable of . |
| 3 | ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’ |
| 4 | A good way to understand The Lord of the Rings in its full complexity is to see it as an attempt to reconcile two views of evil , both old , both authoritative , both living , each seemingly contradicted by the other . |
| 5 | ENGLISH football is bracing itself for an invasion of South African soccer talent . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Howard is becoming something of an expert on the theory of social work , in fact ; Rose is doing it , too . |
| 9 | This implies that the vendor is representing itself as an insurer whereas the real claim is the full value of the damages suffered by the breach of contract ; ( d ) ensuring the purchaser acknowledges it has not relied on any representation other than those incorporated in the sale agreement and that it shall not have any right to rescind the sale agreement . |
| 10 | In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement . |
| 11 | But she 's becoming something of an obsession with Ryan , particularly since his wife 's death . |
| 12 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 13 | It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion . |
| 14 | UTV and Channel 4 now have their own separate sales arrangements in Dublin , and UTV is pushing itself as an all-Ireland TV medium . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yes , in his own quiet way Summerchild is presenting himself to an audience . |
| 17 | Although 70% of the company 's revenue was from Unix in the last fiscal year , Progress defended its support of the AS/400 : IBM is refocusing it as an open platform and database server which means it can be combined with Unix , commented Wark . |
| 18 | Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices . |
| 19 | Kerrison is doing it on an item of service basis . |
| 20 | Whether it 's to reward ourselves for an achievement , or to lift our spirits , many women find little can compete with the rustle of tissue paper and the thrill of slipping into a pristine new outfit . |
| 21 | During the filming of another sea-going saga , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 version ) , Charles Laughton upstaged Gable , who complained to director Frank Lloyd , ‘ Laughton 's treating me like an extra . |
| 22 | is turn it into an office . |
| 23 | At present , EUP is effectively a University department , and Mr Martin 's task is to transform it into an independent company , albeit one wholly owned by the University . |
| 24 | He is taking us on an interesting excursion , |
| 25 | HP is to add it to an extension of its Apollo 9000 series 700 workstation family , code-named Scorpio . |
| 26 | Erm the the er Professor Lock was saying well you know the way you get your footloose industry is to present them with an absolute guarantee of planning permission . |