Example sentences of "is [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MODERN TIMBER technology is helping support on one of Wales ' most famous narrow gauge lines , the Vale of Rheidol Railway . |
| 2 | Um now one thing er I notice you 're you 've gone for quite heavily is using kind of declarative directional statements . |
| 3 | Macbeth is using language on two levels , one of which rebukes the other . |
| 4 | In searching for an alternative , OFWAT is canvassing opinion on three different methods : water metering , a flat-rate licence fee , and banding or stepped charges depending on the type of home in which you live . |
| 5 | The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation , Intelsat , owned by some 120 nations worldwide , is under such pressure to increase capacity that for the first time , it is to lease capacity on three satellites that it does not own . |
| 6 | The debate is drawing opinion from all sides but Middlesbrough Labour MP Stuart Bell , a keen sports fan , is one man in no doubt about who will suffer most in the new deal which puts live television into the hands of satellite TV bosses . |
| 7 | A case now before America 's Supreme Court is drawing attention to such bias . |
| 8 | Top London hairdresser Charles Worthington ( tel : 071–831 5303 ) is suggesting setting to more and more clients who want a different look for special occasions . |
| 9 | The purpose of drinks advertising is to promote competition between different brands . |
| 10 | The funding formula is to include provision for special needs within the mainstream and funding for statemented pupils lies outside the formula . |
| 11 | ‘ I understand your Mrs Chalk is cooking pheasant in red wine tonight . |
| 12 | So , while the Government claims that it is targeting help on those in greatest need , it is simultaneously increasing the numbers caught , in the Government 's terminology , in a ‘ dependency culture ’ . |
| 13 | If our priority is to target help at those with most need and to back away when those needs are met , our contacts with families could become simply box-ticking sessions , and it would be harder to get to know them . ’ |
| 14 | This is n't surprising , of course , since the overall purpose of talking with someone is to impart information of some kind . |
| 15 | However , the theme which deserves more attention is the basic argument of the article : the author is claiming not to be prejudiced and is attributing prejudice to those who oppose the National Front . |
| 16 | The aim of the NAS project is to enable communication between different DEC machines as well as between DEC kit and other manufacturer 's boxes . |
| 17 | The objective of the Economic Theory Study Group is to stimulate work on Economic Theory in the U.K. and promote the dissemination of research findings . |
| 18 | As far as the Parents Charter is concerned , that document is gathering dust in many school cupboards as governors , including some Tory governors , refuse to send it out . |
| 19 | The aim is to gather material on everyday activities ( at home , in churches and graveyards ) but also on the more exceptional activities which take women out of their normal routines and maybe away from their communities ( ie pilgrimages and forms of the religious life ) . |
| 20 | In addition , most basic banks are members of an ‘ associated ’ bank , almost always within their own republic or province , whose main function is to arrange finance for major projects and to handle foreign exchange transactions . |
| 21 | Even in the home the male is given precedence in many obvious and subtle ways . |
| 22 | Although President Barco is given credit for good intentions , the fear is that his move has come too late : by now , the money at stake is too big , the drug barons too firmly entrenched in Colombian society , and the state institutions too deeply compromised by too many years of complacency , if not complicity . |
| 23 | Thus the Godardian question — ‘ who speaks in the image ? ’ — is given answer in Adornian tones : it is the ‘ system which decrees that the order of money determines the order of the image ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 45 ) . |
| 24 | — Mankind is distinguished from all other creatures in two respects : he alone is made in God 's own likeness ; and he is given charge over all the rest . |
| 25 | If the job surveyor is given autonomy in certain areas then the manager must ensure that he has a system of job control which enables him to keep abreast of the progress of the job and be able to compare surveyor and contractor performance in one operation . |
| 26 | Where genuine ambiguities of scope arise ( is a skateboarder a pedestrian or a driver ? ) then the aim is to reintroduce clarity by judicial precedent . |
| 27 | It has members on both sides of the Atlantic and one of its ideals is to encourage contact between 9th Air Force veterans and British people . |
| 28 | All the teacher can do — but it is a most important and fulfilling role — is to encourage self-reflection through appropriate teaching style ( see Chapter 10 on this ) . |
| 29 | Casework usually involves added complexity and the opinion is gaining credence in some circles that it is almost impossible to gain sufficient experience to become proficient unless one spends two whole days a week in a bureau . |
| 30 | Although this sector has rarely produced a highly organised and successful political movement , it is becoming more of a source of protest , that is gaining significance in contemporary Latin America . |