Example sentences of "is [verb] these [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore , I give a simple diet , which is helping these children at this time of rationing .
2 The final part of the procedure before analysis can begin is to see these categories of deixis within a particular discourse , operating at a point along a cline of activity .
3 Much emphasis is placed these days on understanding and applying standard practice rather than simply learning it by rote .
4 Amnesty 's job is to breach these walls , to discover the truth within , and then to act .
5 One of the tasks that the Employment Research Centre is undertaking is to publicise these findings in language accessible to ordinary members of the public .
6 Every accounting student is taught these concepts .
7 By encouraging , cajoling , indicating and directing corporations and trade unions to act in the national interest rather than in their own self-interest , the government is counselling these institutions to behave in a way which is wholly inconsistent with their raison d'être , which in turn results from the property rights with which they are endowed .
8 As the analyst is gathering these entities , the relationships between the entities can also be determined and named — sometimes they will be named in both directions .
9 SCOTVEC is tackling these questions on a number of fronts , and some early progress reports are given inside this Update .
10 The second is to relate these findings to the analytical terms and theoretical models on social policy developed in the West .
11 Mr Taylor must ensure a sceptical public understand that it is to obtain these securities for their less fortunate brethren that the highly-paid Premier League players have been asked to express a willingness to strike .
12 The counsellor 's task is to find these reasons within the emotional life of the individual .
13 It is the fear of exclusion rather than the positive desire to be included that is driving these countries to apply for EC membership .
14 The important thing is to view these lapses with indulgence .
15 The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project , it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal .
16 Much more is made these days of adding to existing experience and finding solutions to individual problems of patients rather than attempting to apply nursing practice to clinical symptoms and multiple medical diagnosis .
17 So much is made these days of the high-profile young dance companies who are ‘ trying to find their own vocabularies of movement ’ , that it is all too easy to forget those who have been doing just that , very quietly , for a long time .
18 The University of Nottingham is meeting these challenges by maintaining its commitment to the highest quality teaching and research .
19 If some past incident is causing these feelings of guilt within you , take a look at precisely what happened .
20 The sad truth is to tackle these subjects you have to be more than just willing , you have to be shite-hot .
21 The task of political sociology is to define these issues and problems in a rigorous way , to describe and analyse the wider structural and historical context , to enquire into the causes of political events , and to indicate in an imaginative rather than restrictive fashion the possible alternative courses of action .
22 The purpose of this research is to remedy these deficiencies .
23 What is important is to explore these possibilities with the students and to use the example to illustrate the difficulty of the latter method if we try to apply it at the end of 1989 when the costs to completion are uncertain .
24 It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’
25 The challenge now is to reverse these standpoints .
26 The task of the professional at this stage is to elucidate these behaviours .
27 This project is investigating these issues , using a strategic model of London , developed for the London Planning Advisory Committee , which will be disaggregated to represent different income groups and those with differing degrees of subsidy separately .
28 That same November , I escaped from Oxford life by securing permission — I do not know whether such authorization is needed these days — to go to a performance in London by the Group Theatre in Great Newport Street , under Rupert Doone , of Sweeney Agonistes .
29 The next step is to combine these factors across all loci .
30 Our objective in the first part of this chapter is to combine these pieces of analysis and so derive a more general model ( developed originally by J.R .
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