Example sentences of "is [adv prt] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you go for second best ( because the pressure is on to fill the job tomorrow , or because you ca n't afford the best ) you will inevitably end up at the bottom of the heap with all the other monkeys . |
| 2 | We 're in a position where we 're going to borrow a bit from next year , that actually puts the pressure on as I see it 's about nine or ten thousand extra this year , the allowance is about a hundred and eighty thousand , the total , erm , we 're adding nine or ten thousand to that , we 're taking it off it for next year , so we 've already got ourselves something like an eighteen to twenty thousand reduction in members allowances next year so the pressure is on to resolve the problem , and er , perhaps Mr might feel that actually that extra pressure might make us resolve it . |
| 3 | Now that the problem has been identified , the race is on to preserve the buildings . |
| 4 | And the search is on to find the top dog among an entry of eight hundred collies , German shepherds and even poodles . |
| 5 | If you know such a coach then nominate him/her now because the search is on to find the 1993 Coach of the Year . |
| 6 | But in other parts of the Midlands , and indeed the country , the search is on to find the houses with high erm we have quite large programmes going on in the south west and also in the Pennines , Scotland . |
| 7 | Then , on closer inspection , it emerges that there are oddities in this particular instance ( as there are in so many cases ) and the quest is on to identify the survival value of these particular idiosyncrasies . |
| 8 | schools is off flip the skips . |
| 9 | Skipper , Ian Smith , who 's made quite an impact with Scotland in the 5 nations this season , is back to lead the team . |
| 10 | In the cramped and crowded city everyone is out to watch the runners battle away … |
| 11 | The ‘ meaning ’ theist is capable of recognising that he or she considers the problem in a mutual dialogue with the ‘ meaning ’ atheist , that each is out to convince the other and that each may convert the other to his or her views . |
| 12 | He did it and now Peter Scudamore is out to rewrite the record books and raise fifty thousand pounds for the Animal Health Trust . |
| 13 | This means that nobody is around to use the local amenities including shops , taxi services , libraries and the like . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , a spokesman for the group has scotched rumours that Bill Wyman is about to leave the Stones . |
| 15 | On and on it runs , ranging from staccato to legato , and becoming fortissimo when anybody is about to leave the house . |
| 16 | On June 1 End Product Duty — the system that assesses the tax on beer as it is about to leave the brewery — replaced the old system assessing it at the beginning of fermentation . |
| 17 | Ray Hardman 's insisting that no one else is about to leave the County Ground — depite speculation that club captain Colin Calderwood has been approached by Crystal Palace . |
| 18 | Hankin , who denied rumours that keeper Mark Prudhoe is about to leave the club , said : ‘ It certainly looked like a penalty from where I was watching , but typical of our luck we did n't get it . |
| 19 | A French company is about to take the sport indoors . |
| 20 | The snub has sparked fears that the Clinton administration is about to put the two countries ' special relationship on hold in retaliation for Tory support of George Bush in the presidential campaign . |
| 21 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
| 22 | A man whose family has been importing American jukeboxes for generations is about to turn the tide and start exporting his own design to the States . |
| 23 | Debutant fly-half Alain Penaud is about to initiate the switch which put Saint-André ( mouth open ) over for the only try of the match as a Welsh posse of Neil Jenkins , Davies and Webster cover across in vain . |
| 24 | Discipline was a failing during Barrow 's years at Warrington , but there are signs that Brian Johnson has aggression under control and is about to tap the club 's potential . |
| 25 | A NEW American magazine called Prison Life is about to hit the stands . |
| 26 | Now Catherine is about to hit the movie world , too . |
| 27 | FORD 'S first four-wheel -drive off roadster , built by Nissan in Spain , is about to hit the market . |
| 28 | And he 's also managed to sneak in some live music from Mary Chapin Carpenter , who 's been touring Scotland this week and is about to hit the big time . |
| 29 | GRIT your teeth and bolt the door — the latest novel from Iain Banks is about to hit the bookshops . |
| 30 | And the Halifax building society is about to repossess the flat . |