Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs and at last somebody out there has the common sense to recognise that fact too : the new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4 to 6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix ’ ; if that does n't bring the punters piling in , nothing will . |
| 2 | The new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4–6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix . ’ |
| 3 | The canoeing is mostly grade I racks with a few tight grade I+/II shoots ; there is one grade II at Bogroy footbridge , a twisting descent over 3 rock ledges , and the photographically spectacular grade III in the centre of Carrbridge itself . |
| 4 | He wrote in an essay published in 1937 that an artist must lead a " commonplace life " if he is properly to do his work . |
| 5 | It is widely believed he already has a short two per cent stake although Allied has not detected his presence on its share register . |
| 6 | I suppose that 's sort of weather , what , this is most intrigue you know , what made you take them ? |
| 7 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 8 | In a world where British influence is conspicuously waning it might not be in the interests of a secure national identity to throw it open for young Britons to gaze on . |
| 9 | Some mains transformers seem to have twin 120 volt windings , and this is presumably to permit them to operate on continental 120 volt supplies or the 240 volt UK supply . |
| 10 | But I I hope at the end of all this , there will still be how much training you 've had , that when the post is eventually advertised it will still be |
| 11 | Anyone like us who , after two hand-outs , tries pretending she 's not there is eventually offered what sounds like a horrible curse . |
| 12 | The path to salvation is eventually shown her by the unwitting Messiah figure Hussein , an East African poet who speaks in metaphors and proverbs . |
| 13 | ' When he is eventually unmasked he commits suicide . |
| 14 | Through a cracked squinting window high up in a cracked squatting tenement , a 25 watt woman is wearily flattening her husband 's future shirt with a nearly-steaming iron in an environment where the purple sweat and aggro must eventually print its feeling on the creamy-browny ever so piled up non dish washy ever so squashy piled up feelings ever so — ironed out onto the stove under the sink beyond the plug-hole of anyone 's conception . |
| 15 | There needs to be a specific recovery procedure so that if the aim is badly lost it can be recovered again . |
| 16 | Anyway , ’ she went on , softening slightly , ‘ that story 's only fiction even if the James character is remarkably like you . |
| 17 | ( 12 ) Unless a completion date is expressly agreed it will be fixed by the general conditions of sale . |
| 18 | WordStar International Inc is effectively engineering its own takeover in a merger agreement with SoftKey Software Products Inc of Mississauga , Ontario under which SoftKey holders will end up with 75% of the equity of the enlarged company , which will retain WordStar 's quote and be headquartered at the word processing software pioneer 's headquarters in Novato , California . |
| 19 | It makes me mad to think Big Business is slowly polishing me off so's to increase its profit margins on pesticide . ’ |
| 20 | In this way the river channel is slowly changing its position . |
| 21 | The majority of the evidence for such a study are the grave-goods found in cemeteries , although the growing number of excavated settlements is slowly extending our knowledge . |
| 22 | ‘ And the divine angler is slowly hauling you up to heaven ? ’ |
| 23 | " The coast is slowly cleaning itself " , he commented . |
| 24 | The Clinton administration is slowly turning its attention to the $14 billion that the US government will spend this year on basic research , conducting a review of six multi-billion-dollar interagency initiatives and convening a panel of senior administrators to draw up programmes for future budgets that correspond to the president 's domestic policy goals . |
| 25 | A market economy constructed around communitarian values and proactively managed is the engine of wealth creation — and the race is on to see which party adopts that credo as its own . |
| 26 | ‘ Fight is on to save our River Wey ’ |
| 27 | With both Fujitsu and Amdahl losing money , the pressure is on to reduce their cost bases . |
| 28 | That is right thank you . |
| 29 | He is often very callous to Lennie and is constantly reminding him what his life could be like without Lennie . |
| 30 | In order to determine its policy , each local state authority is constantly adjusting its position to take account of the intentions of others . |