Example sentences of "is [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Um now one thing er I notice you 're you 've gone for quite heavily is using kind of declarative directional statements . |
| 2 | The purpose of drinks advertising is to promote competition between different brands . |
| 3 | The funding formula is to include provision for special needs within the mainstream and funding for statemented pupils lies outside the formula . |
| 4 | ‘ I understand your Mrs Chalk is cooking pheasant in red wine tonight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Where genuine ambiguities of scope arise ( is a skateboarder a pedestrian or a driver ? ) then the aim is to reintroduce clarity by judicial precedent . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When a speaker uses because in normal conversation , it is likely that her intention is to communicate information about causal direction she wants to inform the hearer that the event mentioned after because is the cause . |
| 16 | Critics argue that the whole point of this offence is to provide protection for young girls , and that this will be undermined if it is open to men to seek an acquittal on the ground that the girl looked 16 . |
| 17 | The usual function for these wheels is to provide power for auxiliary equipment such as a saw-bench , apple crusher etc , but in this case , the system also worked in reverse . |
| 18 | A key aim of the VHPB is to provide information to professional associations , trade unions and employers and , through vaccination , to protect workers from the risk of hepatitis B infection at work |
| 19 | The first is to increase production through new discoveries — the second is to encourage alternative fuels . |
| 20 | Where speech is made criminal by direct reference to its contents , the way is opened for those in authority to censor minority or officially deprecated opinions . |
| 21 | But if the the reason this has occurred is because of a poverty amongst rich countries rich people which is causing poverty amongst poor people which is material . |
| 22 | If the purpose of art is to simplify reality into significant patterns then , here , nature has already done the job on a superhuman scale . |
| 23 | VIRGIN Atlantic 's owner , Richard Branson , who is seeking compensation from British Airways for dirty tricks against his airline , was still waiting for an agreement last night . |
| 24 | Finally , the college is seeking funding for general SVQ programmes in business administration , care , and technology for unemployed workers . |
| 25 | In particular , BGS is seeking permission from commercial companies to publish an index of data held , though ownership will still reside with the original company . |
| 26 | The political party so long lubricated and cajoled by the Transport and General workers is expressing interest in private toll roads and pricing the use of public roads . |
| 27 | According to Envoy Systems ' Peter Krall , the group 's aim is to create awareness of computer-integrated telephony rather than to make standards . |
| 28 | Another task is to initiate research of particular relevance to policy issues and to examine existing and proposal policy initiatives on employment . |
| 29 | In general terms it is to restrict access to judicial review . |
| 30 | The US military is worried about the long delay while the new facilities are being built and also that the US is selling tritium to civilian users in the US , Britain , Japan and Canada . |