Example sentences of "is [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 2 | It also keeps track of who is using what within a client organisation , checks that no unauthorised copies are in circulation , updates inventories , and writes reports for software audits . |
| 3 | Therefore , the enquirer who is using himself as a research instrument needs to be as aware as possible and committed to becoming more aware of his own biases , values and his reasons for holding the conceptual framework he does . |
| 4 | Dan Goldin , the self-professed ‘ agent of change ’ who has been NASA 's administrator for a year , is using it as an opportunity to demonstrate what NASA could be capable of . |
| 5 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 6 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |
| 7 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 8 | ‘ Nowadays somebody who uses the word nigger is seen as racist , whereas Biggles is using it in a neutral sense that 's no longer there . ’ |
| 9 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |
| 10 | She sounds an emotional mess , and is using you as a substitute for her lost love . |
| 11 | The aim of the game is to see which of the teams can fill up their glass the first . |
| 12 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 13 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 14 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 15 | ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’ |
| 16 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 17 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 18 | A good way to understand The Lord of the Rings in its full complexity is to see it as an attempt to reconcile two views of evil , both old , both authoritative , both living , each seemingly contradicted by the other . |
| 19 | I mean I , I mean I du n no I mean I just , I just ha , I just had to tell you because I mean it really is pissing me off the way fucking Catherine treats me , she was alright before like and when I 'm on my own , no |
| 20 | He is reminding us of the way we are coming to the Lord . |
| 21 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |
| 22 | Another innovation of lenses is seeing yourself without the cover of glasses from a three foot distance for your first time since puberty . |
| 23 | Another innovation of lenses is seeing yourself without the cover of glasses from a three-foot distance for the first time since puberty . |
| 24 | The former Cardiff winger has his faults but so far he has adapted well to his new code and in a Bradford side playing more expansively these days is seeing plenty of the ball . |
| 25 | The best way to explain Message Queue Interface is to compare it with a standard remote procedure call , where a client sends a request to another machine and waits for the response . |
| 26 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 27 | A stop gate provides protection as the canal approaches the aqueduct which is to carry it across the River Tame ( Feb 83 guide ) and between a sewage works and an electricity substation . |
| 28 | The aim is to scrutinize it with a view to stopping it coming through the door next time . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Belfast is bracing itself for a vicious war between rival republican terror groups over drugs . |
| 30 | ENGLISH football is bracing itself for an invasion of South African soccer talent . |