Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He s always encouraging the team .
2 When Charles Kingsley writes in his description of the sewer of ‘ the slow sullen rows of oily ripple … sending up … hot breaths of miasma ’ , he is being quite specific ; but in Dickens 's Little Dorrit the word is virtually symbolic of confusion , as the pervasive fog is in Bleak House .
3 Unfortunately , unless the device is skilfully earthed the shielding often has little effect .
4 The purpose of the speed limit acts is presumably to minimise the danger to those travelling on or using the roads .
5 Evan points to a hoist that 's slowly lowering the band 's gear down to ground level : ‘ When we played here last year , we were riding up and down in that thing .
6 Z is thereby given the option .
7 The were-wolf pornographer is thereby given the coup-de-grace , and with great subtlety at that in times of regurgitated Nazism and anti-Semitism .
8 Men 's unfaithfulness is rarely made the focus of a condemnatory press report during the trial , while women 's infidelity as the cause of trouble often becomes a major theme .
9 Pop culture thus works through an amalgam of attitude , inspiration , intuition and detail ( for nobody is as obsessive as the true pop fan , whose obsession is rarely given the respect it deserves ) ; crucially , it works best not in public , where the terms of discourse are set by the dominant culture , but in private space .
10 He was paying thirty pounds a month ground rent into a management fund , but he 's since discovered the money was n't getting through to his former landlord , Titcombe Developments in Marlborough .
11 Well it 's blatantly taking the piss , let's be honest , I mean , I ca n't muck around , I mean it 's blatantly taking the piss is n't it ?
12 Well it 's blatantly taking the piss , let's be honest , I mean , I ca n't muck around , I mean it 's blatantly taking the piss is n't it ?
13 but the point I 'm trying to make is that the person who made the presentation er o o on er for , for the best of riders , I think he 's rather missed the point because he was talking to you about the , including , more information on er within the T V P and we did discuss , er we did like to make it quite clear during our er discussions that riding of horses on the highway is a matter for the T V P , riding horses on bridleways is a matter that we will have to deal with in basic in time .
14 But Sotheby 's eventually won the day , causing an annoyed Christie 's to tip off The New York Times before Sotheby 's could proudly announce their coup .
15 When this introduction is successfully achieved the topic can be introduced , and the counsellor should try to ensure that the group takes over most of the talking .
16 Failing this , if a consumer buyer is effectively denied the protection of the implied terms because the instructions or labels have shrunk the central obligations , recourse will have to be made to the common law rules on incorporation and the general controls of reasonableness found in ss2 and 3 of UCTA 1977. ( f ) Manufacturers ' guarantees In Lambert v Lewis [ 1980 ] 2 WLR 289 , the Court of Appeal declined to hold that statements , made in advertising literature , constituted a collateral warranty on the basis that they were not " intended " to create contractual liability ( this decision was reversed on other grounds in the House of Lords [ 1982 ] AC 225 ) .
17 And the the logic of what 's being said there is effectively to abandon the flexitime scheme out of , for working out of office hours , .
18 The commission is effectively saying the Government has not followed the UN Convention for Refugees , under which anyone with a well-founded fear of persecution should be granted asylum .
19 The spread of global issues is slowly opening the business of managing new share issues to outside competition — years after stockmarkets have been liberalised .
20 Mr Heseltine is slowly reaping the reward of the patience , persistence and self-restraint he has demonstrated since his stormy resignation in 1986 .
21 According to the latest electoral forecast from Washington-based political analyst Charles Cook , Clinton is ahead in 18 states with 222 votes , while Bush is slowly closing the gap with 192 votes in 22 states .
22 I 've got me 'ands full wiv servin' an' lookin' after Rachel — that 's besides runnin' the 'ome .
23 And Heritage says it 's successfully riding the recession .
24 And Heritage says it 's successfully riding the recession .
25 If a horse shies , he is fundamentally ignoring the rider 's inside leg , so rather than worrying about the horse shying , it is more important to concentrate on exercises which make the horse move away from the leg such as leg-yield , shoulder-in , enlarging and decreasing the circle .
26 these values have to have an intrinsically prescriptive character , so that to know them is necessarily to have the will affected in a certain way .
27 And I would like to make another quote if I may , he was the one that talked about Scotland being the land of cakes , and brother Scots , where the women made the cakes but he 's only addressing the brother Scots .
28 That 's only to advertise the place though is n't it ?
29 he ferreted it out , but I , you know I said to Mike well if er , if he 's only chewing the paper
30 Yeah it 's only to keep the itching under control .
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