Example sentences of "is [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah Benton minds the gap ; The pain in Spain The underclass is striking , the unions are united , and Felipe González has run out of ideas , says Denis MacShane ; Hooked on IT Gary Herman on how technology is helping the Labour movement to organise itself internationally |
| 2 | Dr Pertwee said it could be that the genetic substance is helping the human memory to function properly and having a controlling or modulatory role on the brain . |
| 3 | With conventional jobs in very short supply , Sunderland CAB is helping the unemployed set up their own small businesses . |
| 4 | Behind them , Ol Doinyo Lengai is catching the late afternoon sunlight . |
| 5 | One is to go the whole atomist hog and turn women too into full-time contracting egoists , no less exploitative and solitary than the males . |
| 6 | And she is using the 20th-Century surgeon 's art to turn herself into a living version of classical beauties painted by the Old Masters , from Greek goddesses to the Mona Lisa . |
| 7 | We are also expanding capacity , especially through Greater Glasgow health board which is using the private sector so that an extra 120 patients may be treated . |
| 8 | This is using the cancelling method in reverse . |
| 9 | If I change it once in one place only then automatically every program on the network is using the new version of the business rule . |
| 10 | This is occurring at the same time as the Commission is using the single market as an excuse to augment its power for political means . |
| 11 | The divisional organiser , John Kydd , one of the four men named in today 's proceedings , is convinced the company is using the electronic camera to monitor the union 's activities . |
| 12 | One , the organism-centred way , is to see the individual organism as the centre of interest , since it is individuals upon which selection acts : individuals survive and reproduce , or they die . |
| 13 | The trick is to see the social context as the regular participants do , while at the same time remaining a detached observer of events . |
| 14 | The governor is to see the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , and the minister responsible for Hong Kong affairs , Mr Francis Maude . |
| 15 | JOHN SALAKO is to see the American surgeon who saved his career amid fears that he faces another lengthy lay-off with knee trouble . |
| 16 | JOHN SALAKO is to see the American surgeon who saved his career amid fears that he faces another lengthy lay-off with knee trouble . |
| 17 | Greenpeace is accusing the European Commission of breaking its own rules on environmental impact assessments ( EIAs ) by approving aid to two Spanish power stations before an EIA had been carried through . |
| 18 | One is to stiffen the anti-inflationary resolve of wobbly coalition or spendthrift socialist governments — and we have not got either of those . |
| 19 | The Law Society takes the view that the remedy for negligent work is to sue the negligent solicitor for compensation . |
| 20 | If you are copying artwork for a magazine article , half of the work ( i.e. designing the track layout itself ) is already done for you , and all you need to do is reproduce the given copper track layout onto a suitable medium . |
| 21 | The next step is to enrich the behavioural repertoire used in communication by imitating the signals of others and to associate the performance of signals with the context in which they are given . |
| 22 | Is not the problem with the TGWU the fact that the only objective that it regards as important in the House is to support the Labour party ? |
| 23 | The main finding then is to support the oft-cited hypothesis that ‘ multi-plant firms close their branch plants first ’ . |
| 24 | He strongly recommended against investment ‘ unless the aim is to support the editorial charter ’ . |
| 25 | Paul is bringing the entire Barnum troop to the Apollo Theatre in Oxford in the Autumn . |
| 26 | LITTLE Jonathan Varney is bringing the precious gift of laughter into the life of his tragic elder brother Matthew . |
| 27 | According to the Archangelsk-based newspaper , Volna , Moscow radio reported that the units would be financially independent , funding themselves in part by collecting titanium scrap " which is littering the entire tundra landscape from Mezen to the Yamal and beyond , in the form of wreckage from the first stages of rockets launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome " . |
| 28 | Lesk 's method is to compare the various sense definitions of a word with the definitions of other words in the immediate sentential context . |
| 29 | A sensible way to proceed is to compare the estimated sum of square residuals from equation ( 3.19 ) , say , with those obtained from equation ( 3.20 ) where the restrictions have been imposed , where the denotes an estimated value of the variable . |
| 30 | A simple method of telling whether a jufti knot has been used is to compare the horizontal knot-county to the number of warps . |