Example sentences of "is [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting this week , Central television is bringing you an improved weather service . |
| 2 | Allan Chapman & James is a young company which is building itself an excellent reputation in the area as commercial insurance brokers . |
| 3 | As the language system is the focus of our study here , we start with the idea of the linguistic variable ( for example the vowel /a/ in such items as cat , bad , have ) , and our first task is to discover what the possible variants of a variable may be : subsequently , the quantitative distribution of linguistic variants may be demonstrated by reference to the familiar speaker-variables of social dialectology , such as age and sex of speaker . |
| 4 | The least he can do is buy us a decent lunch . ’ |
| 5 | A good way of familiarising yourself with the principle of intervallic interchange is to set yourself the following task , both on and away from your guitar . |
| 6 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 7 | I know I 've been a bit stupid , but I 'm trying to get my act together and all Luke-do-it-all-Denner does is give me a hard time ! |
| 8 | The second is to buy yourself a good waterproof mascara but remember you may need to buy a suitable eye make-up remover , too . |
| 9 | Ceri ( 4.2 ) : My mum is buying me a new bathing suit . |
| 10 | Or your last option is to do what the good folk at the training agency have done , which is they claim that the today marker is not erm , sturdy enough , so they superglue the er , the two markers together , to make it thicker . |
| 11 | That is to do what the Royal Family has always done supremely well , to meet foreign dignitaries as Britain 's ambassadors . |
| 12 | One way of making people express themselves is to give them a Russian Doll . |
| 13 | All you need is to give them a regular supply of food and water . |
| 14 | One way to do this is to give them a hefty shove and hurl them together so fast that their mutual electrical repulsion can not resist , as in the Sun where the temperature at the centre is so great that the protons are highly agitated and occasionally collide at which point the energy-liberating fusion mechanisms take over . |
| 15 | Because what I really want , after all , is to give them a true belief , and I know very well that , although I want my own beliefs to be true ( because that 's what makes them useful ) , we can all make mistakes . |
| 16 | One good way of starting the dreaming process is to give yourself a physical check-up . |
| 17 | So the chief objective of Styled is to give you a visual impression of the text . |
| 18 | This note is to give you a quick update — the report still has to go to the Computer Needs Group . |
| 19 | Erm there is to give you a little bit of an idea of hoe those rules would apply and who comes into it A well known family tree for you just to look at . |
| 20 | Engineers know that the way to make something that resists damage is to give it a modular structure . |
| 21 | For the Spirit 's work in assurance is to give us a firm foundation to build on , not to make us arrogant ; the ‘ already ’ and the ‘ not yet ’ of the Spirit 's internal witness enable us to be sure without being cocksure . |
| 22 | ‘ This red wine is to wish you a warm welcome . |
| 23 | This is most important with approach putts where the intention is to leave yourself an easy second putt as opposed to going boldly at the hole . |
| 24 | This is doing me no good at all whereas it seems to be all me and my wife it 's but like we went to court , Mr and Mrs who were equally involved in it |
| 25 | Now to me , and John Prescott 's not even in our union , shame , that man should be is doing what every other G M B member of Parliament should be doing . |
| 26 | Who is to determine what the poor in the Third World really do need ? |
| 27 | Out-of-favour Neil Webb is giving himself a two-month deadline to get back into favour at Old Trafford . |
| 28 | HarperCollins is giving him a big push , and is reissuing Climbers and The Ice Monkey at the same time as this haunting tale . |
| 29 | A recent revival of enthusiasm for Gaelic among both lots of people is giving them a rare common interest . |
| 30 | All of this is giving me a good opportunity to get up to speed quickly on AEA and the various issues we face . |