Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand . |
| 2 | Malvern-based chartered accountant Alan Kay is helping with a detailed investigation of the activities of certain copier companies that are widely criticised for malpractice , as well as the leasing companies that finance them . |
| 3 | Student Keith Marsh is particularly interested in science and has organised a trip for pupils to use the college laboratories while Clare Phillips is helping in the primary school library . |
| 4 | Secondly , there are deeper connections between care-giving and the social construction of masculine and feminine identities , as Ungerson ( 1983 ) and Graham have explored : ‘ Caring ’ becomes the category through which one sex is differentiated from the other … it becomes the defining characteristic of [ women 's ] self-identity ’ ( Graham , 1983 , p. 18 ) . |
| 5 | Further , in the world religions the sacred is differentiated from the social ; that is , that primitive religions are ‘ immanentist ’ , as Talcott Parsons underscored , while world religions are ‘ transcendentalist ’ . |
| 6 | DR HOWARD Cromie is to retire from the active ministry in May after 31 years in Railway Street Presbyterian Church , Lisburn . |
| 7 | Note that at the back of the head an allowance of approx. ½in has been left , and this is bevelled with a smoothing plane so that when viewed from above the head will lie at an angle to the neck . |
| 8 | The plan is to go into a neighbouring country … in this case Salisbury Plain … and evacuate civilians using soldiers to protect them . |
| 9 | from escaping through the top and if you 're i if it 's a fa you know , there 's some light or disturbance you and want to sleep and the best thing to do is to go into a light doze cos , you know , you ca n't do much else that 's cover your face . |
| 10 | The third option is to go for a strategic exceptions policy in the structure plan and obviously this is what er the borough considered considers is appropriate . |
| 11 | In the first year Armstrong 's concern is to go for a minimum safe agenda — ‘ make sure clients are safe and then build on that . ’ |
| 12 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow , starting from Darlington Market Place at 9am . |
| 13 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow . |
| 14 | Documents we have obtained show that one contract for the extension to the London Underground Jubilee Line is to go to a German firm , even though a British company is desperate for the work . |
| 15 | A STOCKTON woman 's bid to turn an empty shop into a taxi office is to go to a public appeal . |
| 16 | If she is to go to the Superfinal in Cardiff in May as leading qualifier , she must at least return home with gold and silver from the 50 and 100m freestyle this weekend . |
| 17 | For lunch I intend to go to the Strawberry Duck pub , Entwhistle , Saturday afternoon is free for shopping in Manchester 's Arndale Centre or whatever and for the evening meal the plan is to go to the new Indian take-away which has opened near Castle Irwell — the ‘ Tandoori Cottage ’ . |
| 18 | On April 26 , Lisa is to go to the Royal College of Music , in London , to take on the best of British players in the national finals . |
| 19 | A relatively safe way of doing this is to go through a local agency or someone who has passed the test to become a member of the Magic Circle . |
| 20 | Well according to , these blokes said , the only safe way of getting er money on overdraft is to go through a German bank . |
| 21 | The trick in bringing about a change in attitudes towards marketing is to go after the easy stuff first , there is nothing to be gained from knocking your head against a brick wall . |
| 22 | Nippon Digital Equipment Corp is to go after the client-server market in Japan , using the bilingual DOS/V operating system on its personal computers and the VAX series of machines as servers . |
| 23 | This utility will total up the number of bytes each directory is using across a given path . |
| 24 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 25 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 26 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 27 | THE cab driver who was forced to carry an IRA bomb to Downing Street is recovering with a double birthday celebration . |
| 28 | Patrick , who joins Michael and EastEnders actress mum Lizzie Power for a family holiday in Sardinia on Wish You Were Here , was born with cerebral palsy and is recovering after a major hip operation which his father describes as ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 29 | I also regret to say that our chairman , Mrs Dorothea Garnons Williams , who would I am sure have liked to attend , is recovering from a serious operation . |
| 30 | And three-times 1930s champion Perry , in a letter from the American hospital bed where he is recovering from a triple heart bypass operation , added : ‘ To the youngsters who will use this centre , I say , use it with pride . |