Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cumbria have a wide ranging programme including the Pilkington Roadshow in October at Workington , Egremont , Kendal , Keswick and Kirkby Lonsdale whilst David Pears is helping out at Workington on September 2nd and Wade Dooley at Kendal on September 15th . |
| 2 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 3 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |
| 4 | The ghost of christmas future is catching up with Scrooge , and the news is grave . |
| 5 | The company is catching up with IBM UK , Bennett said , pointing to the respective performances of each . |
| 6 | Verdix Corp 's Verdix Ada Development System is to go up on Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations under an agreement between the two , and Verdix said an Ada code generator for the Oracle CASE Architecture is now available following a 1992 joint product development agreement it has with its unit Meridian Software Systems and Oracle Corp 's Oracle Federal Systems subsidiary . |
| 7 | The lower rate of SMP is to go up from £46.30 to £47.95 a week , and the weekly earnings threshold is increased from £54 to £56 . |
| 8 | What is the use of continuing our race if it is to go on in darkness ? ’ |
| 9 | Ada Younger is to go out to Zimbabwe in the late summer and hopes to arrange for a group from the church to go at a later date . |
| 10 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |
| 11 | The result is to go back to roots of pop music , mixing documentary , fly-on-the-wall conversations and live sets from an interesting assortment of guests , often tackling numbers you would n't normally see them perform on TV . |
| 12 | One corner of this shop is partitioned off for brake work , brake testing , metalling of axle-box and other bearings and for dealing with passenger communication apparatus , etc . |
| 13 | Chances are , a Boeing jetliner is touching down at New York right now . |
| 14 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 15 | Further evidence of Starfield 's commitment to quality is provided by the fact that every guitar which comes into the country is checked over by repairer Martyn Booth before being dispatched to the shops . |
| 16 | The huts provide water and toilets , and cooking is done by bottled gas which is flown in by helicopter ; there 's no electricity , of course . |
| 17 | ‘ In any case , ’ Finlayson went on , ‘ all those Huns the Kaiser is bringing back from Russia are fagged out . |
| 18 | Secondly , if the company is insolvent when the charge is registered out of time , it is vulnerable to challenge by the administrator or the liquidator . |
| 19 | It 's about ordinary people in an ordinary world and the most special thing that can happen to anybody is to fall in love , and the worst is to fall out of love . |
| 20 | In this fashion dirt is broken up into particles until activity is exhausted . |
| 21 | The assembly task is broken up into segments , each being performed by a group of operatives in one bay of the plant , and taking about 20 minutes . |
| 22 | Whether the words are printed , typed or handwritten ; whether they appear on a screen or on different types and qualities of paper ; whether a ‘ text ’ occurs as a separate item , as part of an academic journal , or in a book or an encyclopaedia ; how the page is laid out , the extent to which it is broken up by illustrations , headings , and the use of different typefaces . |
| 23 | The objects in Braque 's painting like the Still Life with Fruit Dish ( Moderna Museet , Stockholm ) , which is roughly contemporary with the Compotier , are more faceted , and the whole surface is broken up in terms of the same angular but subtly modulated planes which carry the eye back into a limited depth and then forward again on to the picture plane in a series of gentle declivities and projections . |
| 24 | Nitrogen cycle — The process in which ammonia is broken down into nitrites and thence to nitrates by aerobic bacteria . |
| 25 | In the process of hatching , the inner impermeable shell membrane is broken down by enzymes secreted by the larva and by its own movement . |
| 26 | Distribution is broken down by region : — |
| 27 | The final , most outstanding feature of tropical forest — not so obvious to the casual visitor , but exceedingly important — is the sheer speed at which detritus ( leaf litter and dead animals ) is broken down by insects , fungi , and bacteria . |
| 28 | The food we eat is broken down by means of a series of enzymes in the mouth , stomach and small intestine to its simple component molecules which can then be absorbed into the bloodstream . |
| 29 | Moser ( 1978 ) typically deals with the way information is broken down in interpretation from sentences and context into meaning , and one can only presume that she proposes a similar process for the reconstruction of the message in the second language . |
| 30 | Therefore , in looking at this diagram , one needs to realize that to the southwest er and just east of er Strensall erm the area is filled up by greenbelt . |