Example sentences of "is [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this part of the book is about creating conscious plans . |
| 2 | Attainment Target 3 is about using historical evidence . |
| 3 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
| 4 | If nothing else , leadership is about building this basis ( Bartolme , 1989 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr. Gould the author of the Birds of Europe is about leaving this country for New Holland , or as it is now called Australia . |
| 6 | Though the current talk is about establishing multinational units and of creating a European rapid-deployment force that could be sent off at short notice to cope with unexpected contingencies , Europe 's armies have too many of the wrong sorts of forces , doing the wrong jobs . |
| 7 | It is about establishing simple models to explain events and the applications of these models to predict the outcome in unexplored situations . |
| 8 | Our legislation is about bringing local government closer to the people , giving them the councils that they want . |
| 9 | Spelling , on the other hand , begins from sound , and is about symbolising that sound into print ( see Symbol in Glossary ) . |
| 10 | If teacher training is about preparing young men and women to work sensitively to children 's needs , and to provide a work force of newly trained teachers who are able to fit into schools effectively , the way in which initial teacher education is developing deserves careful reappraisal . |
| 11 | Looking at this as one of the points of research avoids some of the narrowness of the kind of conception that has tended to dominate thinking about social research , namely that it is about testing theoretical explanations of the facts . |
| 12 | The idea is that all results are published and schools are then placed in league tables , so the main purpose of the tests is as much about the stimulation of competition as it is about diagnosing individual children 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 13 | Composite nine is about putting young people back to work and that has to be a priority in a year which has seen youth unemployment hit the one million mark . |
| 14 | Alright it you wan na call it a business the business is about provide social housing to answer housing need in this town . |
| 15 | In a large house with long corridors it is worth fitting extra alarms with an interconnect facility , so if one is triggered the others sound too . |
| 16 | It is worth remembering that luck often comes to the aid of the experimenter . |
| 17 | It is worth remembering this point when we come to consider some responses to the Report . |
| 18 | At this point it is worth mentioning that motherboard should be securely supported under the socket . |
| 19 | Before leaving the subject of self-indexing , it is worth mentioning perfect hash functions . |
| 20 | And it is worth taking careful note of a man who has consistently read the markets correctly , avoiding debt and the pitfalls of the 1980s that caught out so many others . |
| 21 | All the functions are fully explained in the manual and it is worth taking some time to experiment with each function so that you know which ones to use to obtain the best results . |
| 22 | In practice a confidence level has to be developed within each activity , which can then be used to determine whether it is worth pursuing downstream activities or not . |
| 23 | It is worth pursuing this example . |
| 24 | It is worth estimating potential transport costs in advance and setting these against your anticipated income . |
| 25 | A considerable proportion will be greatly improved and it is worth waiting another couple of months to see further improvement before commencing drug therapy . |
| 26 | It is worth posing additional questions to promote discussion some that have been found to be useful are : If there had been no problem with the purchase of the bacon-curing business what would you have done with the £500 paid to the accountant ? |
| 27 | As a user tip , it is worth doing this manipulation off the page otherwise the text is continually trying to re-format itself . |
| 28 | It is worth avoiding official-sounding phrases such as ‘ marital status ’ , ‘ length of service ’ and also slang unless it is really likely to be helpful . |
| 29 | As a footnote to the Assembly and Convention periods , it is worth making two points about the Democratic Unionists . |
| 30 | Against this liberal orthodoxy it is worth making two points . |