Example sentences of "is [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am besides about to be deserted by my husband , who is to go this next week to Rome to prepare the way for the Brownings . |
| 2 | Note that the market is still efficient and is using all current information in its forecast of the exchange rate . |
| 3 | Our company is rapidly growing with the objective of being one of the top five chemical companies in the world and is using all possible means to achieve it . |
| 4 | you 've used a triangular bandage to cover a wound in the scalp , it 's not a chopping block wound right , it 's not the chopper in its wound right , it 's just a minor wound in the scalp , yes , and that came round and tied at the front , tucked at the back , you used these roller bandages to cover a graze or a wound on the end of an elbow or a knee or the hand , foot and then a straight one up the arm okay , so a lot of your bandaging is using these little roller bandages with the lint pad and do n't forget when you get into the exam do it , do n't do it the wrong way round , remember that you look at your bandage and you put the lint onto the wound , not the other way round right , yeah , you put the lint face down onto the wound , okay ? |
| 5 | Mathematics is a wonderful subject but the physicist has always to ask himself whether he is using those mathematical constructs which are truly appropriate to the way the world is . |
| 6 | Welcome though it is to see such friendly typecasting , we should hope that the opening up of broadcasting to more gay representation will allow for greater diversity . |
| 7 | My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook . |
| 8 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 9 | Modernization of their military capabilities is offsetting any quantitative reduction in forces . " |
| 10 | We do need , this is a fair point , that we do need more data all the way through here , at the moment none of us is suggesting any compulsory tests for anybody . |
| 11 | Knutsford is situated some 16 miles to the south of Manchester . |
| 12 | Llyn Brenig is situated some 35 miles form Colwyn Bay , and is well worth a visit . |
| 13 | The Island of Taiwan is situated several hundred miles off the Chinese mainland , west of Hong Kong ; Japan lies a few hours ’ plane ride north-west while the Philippines rest a similar distance southwards . |
| 14 | Its chief executive , Neville Bain , said he is seeing many more inquiries from retailers currently buying from Far Eastern producers , while some continental suppliers which had been undercutting British producers are being forced to increase prices . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ All races count but what 's more important to me today is seeing this old horse winning again . |
| 16 | After the award Mrs Green 's solicitor Raymond Donn , who is handling another 60 cases involving dead and injured servicemen , said people should not be frightened of claiming from the Ministry of Defence . |
| 17 | The first stage in analysing the records is to scrutinize each individual record to ensure that it is in order , fully complete , and that any noticeable errors are corrected where possible . |
| 18 | By ‘ information ’ Lorenz means that , in order for an animal 's behaviour to be adapted to the environment , the animal must have some knowledge ( information ) of the environment : if an animal is to perform some adaptive behaviour , such as finding food , it must know what food looks like . |
| 19 | But I 've got , what I 've got ta do is repair that other coop |
| 20 | Besides building an 18-hole golf course , and charging trainers to exercise their horses on the track , he is instigating another new concept in this country by constructing American-style barns so that training can be done at the track as it is in the United States . |
| 21 | The aim of this project is to include these additional benefits . |
| 22 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 23 | I puke again , but it 's just like my tummy s being squeezed and all I do is make this coughing noise and nothing comes out . |
| 24 | Iveco Ford is to lose another 100 jobs . |
| 25 | By beginning with the ‘ duty to be publicly accountable ’ the GASB is allowing that financial reporting can be defined in part without explicitly referring to users ' needs . |
| 26 | What they 're ac what they 're trying to do is coordinate enough local parties with the same poster that they can make a block booking I would have thought . |
| 27 | An effective control is to paint each emerging shoot with neat weedkiller . |
| 28 | An alternative method is to glue all mitred edges then enclose in a frame clamp . |
| 29 | Increasingly detailed help pages will be displayed if the key is pressed several more times ; the complete screen will be used for these , temporarily replacing the original page . |
| 30 | What we 've done in North Notts is to sink some new bore-holes . |