Example sentences of "is [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ only means of modifying what they have done is to perform the same action when next invited to do so ’ . |
| 2 | It 's nice to think that one is eating the same grapes as Anne Boleyn and Nell Gwyn . ’ |
| 3 | A law which regulates the ability of a local authority to display venereal disease posters in public places is given the same weighting as a law which expands the welfare state substantially through the provision of free school education or establishes a free health service . |
| 4 | As protection , the floating charge holder is given the same priority with respect to any property representing directly or indirectly the property disposed of as he would have had with respect to the property subject to the floating charge . |
| 5 | As a trivial example , one student may have scored five out of ten on his arithmetic test by answering the five additions correctly and the five subtractions incorrectly while his/her friend is given the same score for precisely the converse performance ! |
| 6 | They interpret the studies as showing that not only are central details more likely to be attended to in the arousal condition , but that since even when only one eye fixation is permitted the same results occur , there must be differences in the processing of arousing material in addition to the original attentional effect . |
| 7 | Are we to understand that all work , when not alienated , is to provide the same freedom for the creative development of mind and feeling as do those pursuits we may choose to follow when our time is our own ? |
| 8 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 9 | We do n't know which is causing the most pain or even which event grieves us the most . |
| 10 | If Sacu is to choose the latter road , the NSC may have to give them a clearer idea of what they will meet as they travel along it . |
| 11 | As has already been observed by the Dominican , Conrad Pepler : we need not to labour the fact that Hilton is writing the same things as St John of the Cross , … |
| 12 | But who is saving the most money ? |
| 13 | To argue with a Greek today is to experience the same mixture of exhilaration ( because he is so full of ideas , so quick with logic ) and exasperation ( when he slides around awkward facts ) that many a growlingly impressed Roman experienced two millennia ago . |
| 14 | The evidence for this article was of a particular kind , and the proposal is to apply the same methods to the subsequent period , taking the whole revaluation as far as the First World War . |
| 15 | Under the Convention , a requested State is to apply the same measures of compulsion as would be available in purely domestic cases ; this is reflected in the provision in section 2(3) of the Act that an order under that section may not require any particular steps to be taken unless they are steps which can be required to be taken by way of obtaining evidence for the purposes of civil proceedings in the court making the order , i.e. , the High Court . |
| 16 | ‘ The idiotic thing about the delay of Brel 's order is that BR is paying the same money to keep clapped out 30 year-old trains running that it would cost to lease the new rolling stock . ’ |
| 17 | Here the style ‘ gentleman ’ identifies him as Dale of Tickencote : the name of Richard Collyn 's landlord is spelt the same way . |
| 18 | but , I mean ours is heading the same way with this rebellious education |
| 19 | The other son 's converted to Mohammed and they say George is going the same way . |
| 20 | It 's obvious News is dead and NewsPrint is going the same way , though how long it takes remains to be seen . |
| 21 | This is the same sort of tripe that Conservative Members came out with when they were defending the poll tax ; the poll tax was indefensible , and the council tax is going the same way . |
| 22 | Mm , see this is a very difficult one to understand , it takes a lot of er working out , you see then he 's also applied , approached the city you see which is called the same thing is n't it ? |
| 23 | Baden is undergoing the same transformation that is revitalising southern France . |
| 24 | Richard Lee , trainer of Space Fair , is considering the same option for his Mackeson challenger . |
| 25 | It is estimated that about 15 per cent of the population , mostly in the rural areas , earn less than Z$100 a year , and it is this group which is facing the most difficulties in keeping their children at school . |
| 26 | Now the European market is getting the same treatment . |
| 27 | Talking Points : B is providing the same information as before . |
| 28 | One of us is doing the same thing . |
| 29 | The aim of this chapter is to summarise the many arguments currently being canvassed about the effects of high technology on employment . |
| 30 | The Ogallala aquifer , which supplies many farms in the US Midwest , is suffering the same problem , as also are aquifers in Spain , Greece and elsewhere in Europe . |