Example sentences of "is [verb] [det] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the detective novel I mean a book in which the puzzle element is reduced and in which the characters are a good deal more lifelike than those which the blueprint puzzle merchants needed and in which the element of character drawing is given much more weight . |
| 2 | A planner is given some such task , where any venture into search would be rash . |
| 3 | The thing to work on is applying this same principle to the playing situation . |
| 4 | It 's a good idea to keep that test data , because later on , you 're almost certainly going to make changes and you 'll therefore need to re-test the system , and a quick way to re-test the system is to put all that test data in again and see if you get the same answers . |
| 5 | I think two of the big changes that I would like to see happening , and I think are beginning to happen , one is to put much less stress on the content of history , which in many cases is , is less important , than the learning the skills of a historian . |
| 6 | The important thing now is to clear all this business up before you get any iller . ’ |
| 7 | Seasonal migrators could in principle orient themselves by a simple sense of direction ; all they need to do is obey some such rule as fly two hundred miles south' or a more complicated series of directions . |