Example sentences of "is [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conversation is about how to respond to an invitation to " step outside " at a party : the gist of B's turn is that if someone were to ask her to go outside for " fresh air " at a party , she would not want to go outside for fresh air , and would not go . |
| 2 | ‘ It is about how to react in different situations , how to help careers develop , how and when to sanction people — how to manage people . ’ |
| 3 | This unit is about how to make your group work better . |
| 4 | Integration in its widest sense is about how to fit special education into mainstream education rather than how to devise a single system of education which creates equal access to education for all — a common policy for education ( Warnock , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Fundamentally , the debate is about how to ensure effective corporate governance . |
| 6 | So let me just say a few things before he does arrive , and catch his breath and perhaps have a cup of tea , on , on a topic which we , it 's not fully listed but I think is worth just mentioning , and that is writing for the press , because it may occur to you and in fact you may yourself on occasions , write things for the press . |
| 7 | It is worth just noting about it , totting up what we 've voted to spend , |
| 8 | It is worth briefly discussing the work of this important unit . |
| 9 | Before tracing the developments of public spending control at the centre , it is worth briefly setting out the contrasting ways in which other academics have sought to analyse it in order to make my own theoretical framework explicit . |
| 10 | But first , it is worth briefly summarising the evidence which our surveys have given about problems over credit use — as far as the relationship between borrower and lender is concerned . |
| 11 | So it is worth regularly spending time on this exercise . |
| 12 | My apology is for not listening to you when you tried to explain . ’ |
| 13 | This formula is for non-thermostatically controlled heaters . |
| 14 | He is for ever issuing his four-line stanzas predicting the future for individuals or even entire families . |
| 15 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |
| 16 | He is for ever asking questions . |
| 17 | I giant-stepped for a mile or two until I came upon a picture that is for ever engraved on the goggles of my mind . |
| 18 | yeah I think right but I think the way of analyzing is through just saying you , what are your grievances and then ultimately that will result in landlords being driven out . |
| 19 | Another distinction is between so called European type options which can only be exercised on the settlement day , and American type options which can be exercised at any time up to and including the settlement day . |
| 20 | I 'm dealing with two estates where no will has been made and the house was in the name of husband alone who died without a will and the net result is that on on law on intestacy neither of the those surviving widows is of right entitled to the house and in both cases there are children and as you can imagine there is a certain amount of anguish about it . |
| 21 | The suggestion is of steeply rising broken ground , and one figure at the top left ( hardly visible in the photograph ) is half hidden behind such a fold in the land . |
| 22 | The risk is of so angering China that business confidence collapses , emigration soars and , after 1997 , Peking demolishes democratic structures as it sees fit . |
| 23 | The case is of highly figured solid English walnut , and Macassar ebony . |
| 24 | This is like just allowing children to pick up a bottle of poison , and leaving it in their hands as though it is a matter of no consequence to us whether or not they drink it . |
| 25 | Merely saying ‘ they rock ’ is like just calling The Mona Lisa ‘ a painting ’ . |
| 26 | In the Game of Life not seeing things as they are is like not seeing the ball clearly when playing tennis , or not knowing where the white lines are . |
| 27 | We all experience what it is like not to have an iris diaphragm , when we are momentarily dazzled by oncoming car headlights . |
| 28 | 12 ALTHOUGH he is an Italian , created by a Japanese , a recent New York Times editorial said : ‘ Not having a Nintendo is like not having a baseball bat . ’ |
| 29 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 30 | It is with deep regret that , on behalf of Athletico Whaddon Football Club , I have to report the death of club chairman , Mr Ken Mentle . |