Example sentences of "[is] [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackie is maintaining an optimistic outlook for the future . |
| 2 | It may therefore be assumed that a manager is maintaining an adequate policy if the competitive position is being maintained and projections indicate that it is likely to be maintained in future . |
| 3 | One moment Harvey sounds like she 's trapped in a particularly unpleasant psychodrama , the next she 's singing an exuberant snatch of I 'm Gon na Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair . |
| 4 | One response to this affront is to erect an alternative system of belief ; to fabricate another , esoteric world of ideas that seems to challenge and in turn to trivialise the ideas that are proving so bothersome . |
| 5 | BUT FAX MACHINES HAVE PLENTY OF SHORTCOMINGS , AS ANYONE WHO 'S RECEIVED AN INDECIPHERABLE SCRAP OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU . |
| 6 | The object is to conduct an economic analysis of the world diamond market . |
| 7 | The aim of the research is to conduct an economic analysis of the world diamond industry , and in particular the regulatory role of the sales monopoly , the Central Selling Organisation . |
| 8 | The Publications Officer is handling an increasing amount of such material , and preparing it to increasingly high technical specifications . |
| 9 | Hair ban : Kuwait is to enforce an Islamic ban on men working as hairdressers for women in beauty parlours . |
| 10 | He 's taught an awful lot of people , including myself , an awful lot of things . |
| 11 | Where the target is listed an obvious starting point is the market price . |
| 12 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 13 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 14 | It is proving an amazing success . |
| 15 | THE Olympic steeplechase qualifying time is proving an elusive barrier for Gateshead Harrier Colin Walker . |
| 16 | Equally , psychoanalysis is proving an indispensable method for investigating the deeper reaches of the racist imagination , but produces the most absurdly reductionist theories when it tries to apply its concepts to explaining the rise of fascism or the nation-state . |
| 17 | What a wonderful night : thousands of people , many of them young , black and white , all there is to thank an elderly man who had been in prison longer than many at the concert had even been alive . |
| 18 | ‘ Every taxpayer is subsidising an unnecessary sell-off and then paying again when they get their water bill . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Every taxpayer is subsidising an unnecessary sell-off and then paying again when they get their water bill . ’ |
| 20 | Daedalus dislikes this tedious and wasteful business , and is inventing an in-situ laundering machine . |
| 21 | The employer is building an internal labour market , with a view to retaining the skilled workers , but extends it to all employees , using payment premiums and participative management measures , in the hope of persuading workers to embrace such change as a competitive product market makes necessary . |
| 22 | One school is building an artifical otter holt to provide them with a ready made home . |
| 23 | At present ESA has an X-ray satellite , Exosat , ready for launch , and is building an optical astronomy satellite called Hipparcos ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 31 ) . |
| 24 | Especially painted white and it is reflecting an awful lot of light . |
| 25 | And IBM is financing an ambitious project by a young Californian company , Patriot Partners ; it would let software companies write programs compatible with OS/2 and Unix , an operating system with similar capabilities originally created by AT&T 's Bell Labs . |
| 26 | BRITISH actress Emily Lloyd is all smiles after watching the Hollywood premiere of In The Soup — but she 's nursing an aching heart . |
| 27 | Sotheby 's is sponsoring an outstanding exhibition , ‘ Drawing in Bologna 1500–1600 ’ , at the Courtauld Galleries from 18 June to 31 August . |
| 28 | In particular , an organization that is given a task that is controversial and unpopular in many quarters , such as an organization charged to promote racial and sexual equality or one providing help to a stigmatized group such as vagrant alcoholics , may find that it is given an unclear mandate and is placed in a position in which it finds it hard to acquire ‘ legitimacy ’ for its activities . |
| 29 | So for , for the first time the revolution is given an economic goal in that it is to set up industrialization and in a sense the ending of feudalism and the creation of industrialization emerge as , as the two forces whereas up until now it has been feudalism perhaps egalitarianism . |
| 30 | When the disk is found to be free from a virus infection it is given an electronic signature code . |