Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the language system is the focus of our study here , we start with the idea of the linguistic variable ( for example the vowel /a/ in such items as cat , bad , have ) , and our first task is to discover what the possible variants of a variable may be : subsequently , the quantitative distribution of linguistic variants may be demonstrated by reference to the familiar speaker-variables of social dialectology , such as age and sex of speaker . |
| 2 | A good way of familiarising yourself with the principle of intervallic interchange is to set yourself the following task , both on and away from your guitar . |
| 3 | It is made none the easier by the differences in approach used to analyze the nature of the problem . |
| 4 | You can actually now I 'm sure som so somebody must have the skills on an A five sheet to have it halved with a an internal diary er three of those you 're , it 's cost you the five bits of paper and two staples ! |
| 5 | have n't seen him , it 's Dr I think that 's attended me the last time . |
| 6 | But Brett here 's told you the only ones that 'll give any trouble will be the goons wearin' joggin' suits of black , grey or brown . |
| 7 | Or your last option is to do what the good folk at the training agency have done , which is they claim that the today marker is not erm , sturdy enough , so they superglue the er , the two markers together , to make it thicker . |
| 8 | That is to do what the Royal Family has always done supremely well , to meet foreign dignitaries as Britain 's ambassadors . |
| 9 | This is done electronically now , but the principle is , is often the same , and the instinct is to do it the same . |
| 10 | She 's got that unappetizing little Yank in tow , and she 's feeding him the Authorized Version . |
| 11 | Who is to determine what the poor in the Third World really do need ? |
| 12 | It 's doing everything the wrong way round at the wrong time . |
| 13 | And far from being envious , it is giving me the greatest pleasure . ’ |
| 14 | She 's recording it the stupid cow she 's |
| 15 | With such ancient remains , the first need is to accord them the same protection as other ancient monuments . |
| 16 | ‘ What you 're doing , Eva , is handing me the old ‘ everyone 's a junkie ’ line , right ? |
| 17 | Government concern is to develop what the Foreign Office called a mechanism to turn people round more quickly and prevent them from arriving at a destination where they were unwanted . |
| 18 | The object sought to be achieved in construing any commercial contract is to ascertain what the mutual intentions of the parties were as to the legal obligations each assumed by the contractual words in which they chose to express them ( Pioneer Shipping Ltd v BTP Tioxide Ltd [ 1981 ] 2 All ER 1030 ) . |
| 19 | And he 's still , one bloke went bankrupt , and he only got amount off him , he 's telling me the other week , he 's , he 's still five thousand pounds owing to him , though , work he did twelve months ago |
| 20 | Alternatively they may say : ‘ We think the best way to do it is to follow what the local authority have said you are to do ’ . ’ |
| 21 | It 's the 10th time the event has been held and the aim is to make it the biggest and best yet ! |