Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's mostly sewing job in the clothing factories , low-paid . |
| 2 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 3 | The researches of Frances Yates into the relationship between science and what is loosely called magic at the end of the 16th century are enlightening . |
| 4 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
| 5 | Clifford Geertz 's widely known article on ‘ Deep Play : Notes on the Balinese Cockfight ’ which is both an account of the way cockfighting may be seen as a symbolically charged text acting as a ‘ carefully prepared ’ expression of Balinese life and an account of the processes by which Geertz becomes a knowing reader of this text , is a prime example of the way thick description works . |
| 6 | The picture painted is gloomy , but there is a very effective method of agriculture that is slowly gaining credence amongst farmers , government and consumers alike . |
| 7 | The N2 tank 69523 which has been out of commission for several years now , is slowly making headway towards full restoration , with the lining-up of the axles boxes , re-wheeling . |
| 8 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 9 | He is instinctively keeping balance like a monkey in flight . |
| 10 | This is all taken care of on camcorders . |
| 11 | Genetic counselling is basically giving advice to parents , including those who have already given birth to a mentally handicapped child , of risks of having a first or second child with mental handicap . |
| 12 | But we should not forget that this is the inevitable result of Mrs Thatcher 's much vaunted Law of the Marketplace ( or Jungle ? ) , which has forced producers to be ‘ different ’ , if not better , to catch the highest number of viewers . |
| 13 | This action is , of course , in direct contravention of the BMC 's much vaunted policy on where and how bolts may be placed , which places an absolute ban on bolting on any gritstone crag . |
| 14 | Guy Loudmer 's much awaited sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings at Drouot on 23 November meanwhile took a dramatic turn when none of its eight Gericault oil paintings managed to sell . |
| 15 | BORIS BECKER 'S much heralded return to fitness and form last night ran into the buffers at the ATP World Championships . |
| 16 | Then , surely you know , it 's all taken care of — though it 's very sweet of you to ask . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all taken care of . |
| 18 | Diminished responsibility has a wider ambit , but its effect is merely to reduce murder to manslaughter , giving the judge discretion on sentencing or other disposal . |
| 19 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 20 | But as far as the government , politicians and media in Britain are concerned the war is only taking place in the desert . |
| 21 | Therefore the point of this section is only to draw attention to some aspects of intellectual and administrative change that can be more easily observed in a discussion on sources than in a more general context . |
| 22 | It worked up a fair frenzy over the Tory leadership contest , describing Herself 's terribly threatening opponent as , variously , a ‘ dotty baronet ’ ( November 29 ) ; ‘ the Bufton Tufton of the Tory back benches ’ ( November 30 ) ; and ‘ The fossil ’ ( December 1 ) . |
| 23 | Dr Mason said the move , which involved the loss of about 18 staff , went against Strathclyde 's long held policy of education pre-school children . |
| 24 | I consider that I B M strives to be a good employer and that it 's long established belief in respect for the individual has shaped our personal policies to reflect these needs within our community , and for example , our equal opportunity principles prevent us from considering race , colour or sex , when offering someone employment or promotion . |
| 25 | Yet it was anxious lest the ILP usurp Communism 's already weakened hold on the Left . |
| 26 | I do n't know how you all managed to worm your way into our confidence , but someone 's already taken care of one of your friends , and the other will be lucky if he lives until his trial . ’ |
| 27 | Oxfordshire County council 's already making use of a government grant of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds to combat truancy . |
| 28 | Its entire purpose is somehow to turn mud into a cement-like material — a material with a multi-national answer to housing problems . |
| 29 | But the plant 's best known activity as a manufacturer of water-cooled mainframes will stay firmly in the IBM fold and notionally expanded as the construction of air-cooled ES/9000s moves from Valencia in Spain , although the rate at which mainframe sales are falling suggests that this will be only a short-term boost . |
| 30 | In spite of my enthusiasm and my growing sense of self-importance , one con keeps cropping up and is finally given life by a fellow banker from Chase Manhattan , whom I sit next to on the flight into Kuala Lumpur . |