Example sentences of "is [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year , the National is bringing us an even more famous Spanish classic , and early booking is recommended . |
| 2 | Starting this week , Central television is bringing you an improved weather service . |
| 3 | When your FlexiLoan is arranged , we will give you a special cheque book so that when the time comes to spend some or all of your borrowing limit , all you have to do is make our a cheque for the right amount . |
| 4 | Allan Chapman & James is a young company which is building itself an excellent reputation in the area as commercial insurance brokers . |
| 5 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 6 | As the language system is the focus of our study here , we start with the idea of the linguistic variable ( for example the vowel /a/ in such items as cat , bad , have ) , and our first task is to discover what the possible variants of a variable may be : subsequently , the quantitative distribution of linguistic variants may be demonstrated by reference to the familiar speaker-variables of social dialectology , such as age and sex of speaker . |
| 7 | ‘ The least I can do is buy you a drink . ’ |
| 8 | The least he can do is buy us a decent lunch . ’ |
| 9 | The best way to go about proper practice is to find yourself a partner of similar standard , who is equally keen to improve , and spend hours sweating and toiling on the practice court . |
| 10 | Janet Parsons knows what it is to find yourself a victim of crime . |
| 11 | The first and foremost step in planning a food facility is to establish what the facility is going to sell , and what type of function is required from the service facility . |
| 12 | In The weather is fine , for example , is would normally constitute the transition ( assuming the communicative purpose of the utterance is to state what the weather is like ) . |
| 13 | Now , what I 'm going to do is show you the advantage of putting somebody on hold as opposed to trying to put your hand over the receiver . |
| 14 | Study takes time and the best way to use it is to set yourself a programme . |
| 15 | So one of the ways to overcome that is to set yourself a target to do more |
| 16 | A good way of familiarising yourself with the principle of intervallic interchange is to set yourself the following task , both on and away from your guitar . |
| 17 | It is made none the easier by the differences in approach used to analyze the nature of the problem . |
| 18 | ‘ If it goes as we expect , then your task , when they are close enough , is to split me a way into the ranks of the two central battles of pikemen . ’ |
| 19 | Although I would also say that I do n't suppose there are very many Councillors that do n't actually , at the end of the day , being a Councillor is costing them a lot of money and those members ' allowances are very , very small and they certainly in my case nowhere near cover the cost of being a County Councillor . |
| 20 | Believe me , that monster is costing me a fortune ! ’ |
| 21 | A firm of road hauliers which has fourteen trucks stuck in the lorry blockade in France says the dispute is costing it a fortune . |
| 22 | If the bags are full of rotting food , or there is a smell or filth around the place , then more action may need to be taken , but the first priority is establishing what the person concerned feels , before asking ‘ Would it be helpful for someone to come in and give a hand with tidying up ? ’ |
| 23 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 24 | All you can do is give them a bit of comfort in that their letters have been read . |
| 25 | I know I 've been a bit stupid , but I 'm trying to get my act together and all Luke-do-it-all-Denner does is give me a hard time ! |
| 26 | after it 's been cut the least you can do is give yourself a shake |
| 27 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 28 | What the picks do is give you a much smoother treble , with none of that awful ‘ ping ’ you get with ordinary plastic ones . |
| 29 | What I 'll do is give you a system whereby even at the drop of a hat you will be able to put together a few words and speak with clarity , speak coherently and be able to put your point of view across . |
| 30 | This is saving me the trouble . ’ |