Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has signed a deal worth £500,000 with Sony and is secretly recording a new album at the studios owned by Ray Davies of The Kinks in Muswell Hill . |
| 2 | This is another sign that , so far at least , the Opposition is rather getting the better of the ratings ' war . |
| 3 | In some music this strained atmosphere may be just what we want , but for the moment our objective is rather to achieve a smooth , natural-sounding discourse . |
| 4 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 5 | The degree of reciprocity in the relationship is rarely thought an important issue to research . |
| 6 | It normally takes the first ten minutes of any brisk walk to get into a rhythm and feel aerobic , so increasing the time from 20 to 30 minutes is effectively doubling the aerobic benefits . |
| 7 | However , feeding weekly mashes with different ingredients from the daily feeding routine is effectively producing a sudden change in diet , something we are continually told not to do because of the potentially harmful results . |
| 8 | Europe is slowly learning the American habit of private placement |
| 9 | The transfer of ownership to the co-operative in 1988 has resulted in one of the most conspicuous restorations within what is flexibly called the Old Town of Edinburgh . |
| 10 | The aim was to ‘ fill the viewer with a feeling of deep gratification for belonging to a race whose Führer is fundamentally solving the Jewish problem ’ . |
| 11 | To analyse one is necessarily to involve the other two . |
| 12 | No , not at all , er , but I , I , I , am someone who believes you 've got to have level playing fields , which we do not have , er or wo n't have , er with the implementation of the common market er , regardless of any relationship with the Soviet Union in 1992 , er after all to , what has not been published very much , er is that , you know , got to take into account indirect as well as direct and erm , if you look at for instance the United States er which is constantly packing the common market people , which is of course , er |
| 13 | Commercial sponsorship is constantly gaining a higher profile in marketing policies . |
| 14 | Pamela , the maid , is constantly beating a breathless retreat up and down back stairs , or pressing her back to walls to let the gentry pass ; her ascendancy to wife is dramatized by her spacious and easy progress from room to room . |
| 15 | Dennis is personally providing a free pack with a poster , stickers , sponsor forms , and lots of fun ideas on how to take part . |
| 16 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 17 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 18 | However elaborate the equipment , it is merely magnifying the natural psychic ability ( or lack of it ) that the individual might have . |
| 19 | He is merely makin' a formal proposal of marriage and is simply askin' you as the girl 's father to think about it . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Angus , East ( Mr. Welsh ) is merely parading the great terror in front of the farmers for his own purposes . |
| 21 | Indeed , a minister may even ‘ expressly desire to keep out of the affairs of quangos within the ambit of his department , arguing that to behave otherwise is merely to frustrate the whole purpose of this way of organising public services ’ ( Johnson , 1979 , p. 389 ) . |
| 22 | If the mortar has only one crewman it is only fire every other turn . |
| 23 | ‘ If he says he needs a fresh challenge every six to 12 months , as he did when he left Leeds , he is only expressing the natural motivation every top sportsman requires . |
| 24 | No , no I ca n't I just ca n't eat so I 'm not forcing myself to eat , what I 'm trying to do is only to eat the right things and I must start vitamin supplements I think I 've got the age when I probably need that , I mean , this cold is a warning to me that my immune system is not as strong as it ought to be , I should n't have had another cold so soon after getting rid of one ! |
| 25 | All these systems , inevitably , suffer from erosion of their database , since the Census is only taken every 10 years , and populations are not static . |
| 26 | It is argued that to speak out on this subject is only to suggest the very evil you want to cure , and to do more harm than good … |
| 27 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 28 | One of the most important aspects of bereavement help is perhaps enabling a grieving person to talk about their negative thoughts as well as their sad thoughts ( which are the ones it is presumed we want to hear ) . |
| 29 | Interestingly , the draped xoanon representing the deity on the Agia Triadha sarcophagus is apparently wearing a full-length sheepskin robe ; this may be to emphasize his antiquity or his rustic origins ( Figure 47 ) . |
| 30 | Erm because the the national policy is obviously to target the green movement erm as our natural constituency . |