Example sentences of "is [verb] [det] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the engraving and writing on the top on , on , on the top of the viewfinder here is nicely lit , you can see that it 's er er , the light is catching all the various edges of the engraving on the top . |
| 2 | I think I 'm really sorry now is to see all the old words really going . |
| 3 | When a coalition of male lions successfully takes over a harem of females , the first thing the males do is to kill all the young lion cubs in the pride . |
| 4 | And very quickly talking about it amongst the staff and er the other committees it would seem that it ought to have a far broader remit than just on the racing side so the first thing that I 'd like to emphasise is that this year of youth sailing is involves all the outgoing grass roots divisions of the R Y A , that is windsurfing , racing , training and the development divisions and the regions and the clubs and the recognized teaching establishments , so it really is an all encompassing er er scheme . |
| 5 | The standard method of producing task descriptions is to write all the separate sub-tasks at various levels on cards and then assemble the cards in a network . |
| 6 | The object is to catch all the other players by hitting them with the ball . |
| 7 | Picasso did not take to Beatrice , but her column two weeks later benefited : ‘ By the way ’ , she wrote , ‘ M. Picasso is painting a portrait of M. Max Jacob in a style , the mere rumour of which is causing all the little men to begin to say that , of course , Cubism was all very well in its way , but was never more than an experiment . |
| 8 | The ultimate threat of the federal army is to destroy all the vital supply lines of Croatia , including power plants , oil refineries and chemical industries . |
| 9 | In the beginnings of this second stanza , the poet is describing all the wonderful things the sun can do but then goes on to say that all these great wonders are completely forgotten when the sun can not even rejuvenate a man whose body is still warm and almost living . |
| 10 | The Bank is to give all the necessary details in relation to PIC Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | A major difficulty is getting all the appropriate people to be available at the required time , which may well run to several days if there are a lot of candidates . |
| 12 | All you have to do is draw all the little bits of an object and push them all together to make a silhouette of the object and then performing one combine operation joins them all together to make an outline that would take you a lot longer to draw in one piece . |
| 13 | The Mail 's big rival , the Express is doing much the same . |
| 14 | The purpose of such case conferences is to consider all the relevant information , evidence and opinions resulting from an investigation and assessment . |
| 15 | The planner 's job , narrowly defined , is to assemble all the available information about the client 's product and its market , from the client 's brief , from published information sources and from market research commissioned by the client , and occasionally , by the agency . |
| 16 | What I want to do is to take all the best elements , like live strings , and recreate them . ’ |
| 17 | The idea is to take all the valuable circuitry and electronics from the separate wind speed , water speed , depth sounder , and other instruments , from the Decca , radar , satnav and GPS systems , from the VHF — and perhaps the cellphone and the SSB as well — and integrate the whole thing in one box . |
| 18 | The best thing is to collect all the longer lengths to sew up with and anything more substantial , KNOT firmly together , then cone up and knit into ‘ tops ’ for Save The Children Fund . |
| 19 | to disengage oneself from ‘ third persons ’ in an analysis of the transition period is inadmissible , this is to dismiss all the specific theoretical problems : The theoretical misunderstanding of this entails an incorrect line in the sphere of economic policy . |
| 20 | The easiest trick is to make all the leading values a multiple of the base or text leading — we call this the modulus . |