Example sentences of "is [verb] [pers pn] [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 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 4 | ‘ The least I can do is buy you a drink . ’ |
| 5 | The least he can do is buy us a decent lunch . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Believe me , that monster is costing me a fortune ! ’ |
| 10 | A firm of road hauliers which has fourteen trucks stuck in the lorry blockade in France says the dispute is costing it a fortune . |
| 11 | 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gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 12 | All you can do is give them a bit of comfort in that their letters have been read . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | What the picks do is give you a much smoother treble , with none of that awful ‘ ping ’ you get with ordinary plastic ones . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is saving me the trouble . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm not and I tell you honest it 's , it is frightening me a bit . |
| 19 | One thing America has done for Lemmy is to afford him the chance to fulfil an ambition … |
| 20 | If ; when your parents begin to draw a National Insurance retirement pension , they go on working , or their former employer is paying them a pension , their code will need to be changed so as to take into account the National Insurance pension . |
| 21 | All Glen 's got ta do is give me the car , if he does n't |
| 22 | If you get it right , the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds , and all you 've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout , and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly … |
| 23 | Give Peace A Chance , John Lennon & Yoko Ono : The hirsute duo 's anthem became the plaintive ‘ All we are saying is give us a goal ’ |
| 24 | ‘ All we are saying … is give us a goal , ’ sang England fans after another goalless draw against France . |
| 25 | She is mother of a family that possesses 13 cubes , which is overdoing it a bit , I reckon . |
| 26 | As I say it 's one of these er competitive market things , but if you go into an electrical shop and you buy a piece of electrical equipment , or if you want er a plug for it , a piece of electrical equipment because you found out that the plug on the electrical equipment at home is defective , it 's got cracked porcelain or something like , then please have a word with the person who is selling you the plug and say look , this plug is gon na be fitted on X appliance . |
| 27 | Ceri ( 4.2 ) : My mum is buying me a new bathing suit . |
| 28 | To encourage the basically extrovert person to develop his praying in a way more suited to the introvert is to do him a disservice , and since many books on prayer are written by introverts we can quickly fall into this trap . |
| 29 | This is done electronically now , but the principle is , is often the same , and the instinct is to do it the same . |
| 30 | One way to do this is to give them a hefty shove and hurl them together so fast that their mutual electrical repulsion can not resist , as in the Sun where the temperature at the centre is so great that the protons are highly agitated and occasionally collide at which point the energy-liberating fusion mechanisms take over . |