Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Abdul Halim Arshat , the secretary-general of Malaysia 's leading Islamic political party , has claimed that ‘ support for Iraq is necessary as the real motive of the US is to kill off the Muslims in Baghdad and to destroy the city . ’ |
| 2 | A court 's heard how a gang of armed robbers tried to kill a police inspector by opening fire with shotguns during a high-speed chase . |
| 3 | An inquest 's heard how a student took a drugs overdose because he was worried about his exams . |
| 4 | Thus it is explained why the sun reigns supreme for six months of the year , followed by deadly winter until such time as the god of Spring blinds him again . |
| 5 | There 's bringing home the bacon … and then there 's bringing back the ham . |
| 6 | ‘ If a woman is n't working , her husband 's bringing home the pay cheque and it 's seen very much as ‘ his money ’ , compulsive spending can be a way of getting back at him if she 's angry , ’ explains Simon Gelsthorpe . |
| 7 | There 's bringing home the bacon … and then there 's bringing back the ham . |
| 8 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 9 | I 'm directing his energy and he 's bringing out the humour in me , at last , which ca n't be a bad thing . ’ |
| 10 | If a scheme for Northern Ireland is to have a real chance of success , it must not only enjoy the support of a majority — it must enjoy also the acquiescence of most of the rest , a vivid illustration of the need for an adequate social foundation for any constitutional structure which is to enjoy even a modicum of success . |
| 11 | THE National Information Forum is drawing up a directory of hospital-based services for disabled people . |
| 12 | KENYA is drawing up a list of pesticides and medicines to be banned under laws that will pass through parliament this year . |
| 13 | At the same time , it is drawing up a list of preferred suppliers and aiming to reduce the total number . |
| 14 | Hodder is bringing out a Herbs volume in its revamped Teach Yourself series ( June , £5.99 , 0340 58260 X ) . |
| 15 | In association with Philips , Two-Can Multimedia is bringing out a CD-I ( Compact Disc Interactive ) version of its book Make It Work ! |
| 16 | In a challenge to the perceived order of things MIT Press is bringing out a book that turns the accepted view of Modernism on its head . |
| 17 | Yamaha has a new sports 600 — no word of a 900 — and Honda is bringing out an economy priced 500 twin . |
| 18 | Yale is bringing out The Planters of the English Landscape Garden by Douglas D.C. Chambers , dealing with the philosophy of gardening and landscaping in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries . |
| 19 | One view of the overall employment implications of new technology is that it is bringing about the collapse of work . |
| 20 | Northamptonshire County Council is bringing in the ban on nearly four thousand acres of farmland where fox hunting could take place . |
| 21 | On the contrary , one of its chief characteristics is to sieve out the workers into grades according to the degree in which they possess the required kinds of ability and alertness . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps the best we can hope for is to conduct here a kind of uneasy holding operation until something else happens in another place ’ — but in most other respects , certainly in conclusions and prescription , they diverged to the point of confrontation . |
| 23 | Now , one end is joined so a bit . |
| 24 | He 's about my height but he 's filled out a bit since he came here and he has a kind of stoop now which makes him look smaller and older than he is . |
| 25 | No when we come out of Bet 's to go down the garage . |
| 26 | A good ‘ test ’ is seeing how the defender would feel about being credited for an OG . |
| 27 | But if we convert our traders into stock-jobbers , who is to carry on the commerce of the kingdom ? |
| 28 | Our intention is to carry out a field test with gel in 1994–95 , with Gyda being one of the candidates . |
| 29 | He has done his best , as have other surgeons and doctors at the hospital , to persuade the mother that the only means of saving her life , and also I emphasise the life of her unborn child , is to carry out a Caesarean section operation . |
| 30 | A useful technique to employ in such situations is to carry out a pasture larval count on the field on which the animals had been grazing . |