Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp and Sequent Computer Systems Inc are possibly on it too — Siemens AG is is helping with the chip so Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG so may also be in the line-up . |
| 2 | Probably the only way to try and prevent it is to go into the schools and get people that have been through the proble , the problem theirselves to go into the schools and try and educate the kids to stay off drugs . |
| 3 | He 'll decide that I 've worked that out — that I 'll guess my best bet is to go to the car because he 'll reckon I wo n't go to the car . |
| 4 | ‘ The traditional British way of doing things in international sporting bodies is to go to the body and put forward a sensible , fair and balanced objective and assume then that everybody will vote for it . |
| 5 | An exercise you can do to get a picture of the difference between newspapers is to go to the library and read each daily in turn . |
| 6 | Okay , what I 'd like to do now is to go through the pads that you 've been given . |
| 7 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 8 | I sing it practically every night of my life , because , like bits of Hamlet , it 's so obvious that the trick is to go against the lyric and stir in your listener the real sense of a man who can not love . |
| 9 | It is a way the Holy Spirit is using across the nation and across the denominations . |
| 10 | We must distinguish the belief that a speaker has about the words he is using from the belief that he is using those words to express . |
| 11 | CGT for an individual is calculated on the basis that the first £6300 net gains are exempt , and gains over £6300 attract a tax rate of 30 per cent . |
| 12 | GOVERNMENT STANDARD SPENDING GRANT : The amount of Standard Spending Grant ( Otherwise known as Revenue Support Grant ) for each area is calculated on the basis that ( subject to the effect of the safety net ) a standard level of service can broadly be provided everywhere in England for the same community charge — this year £278 . |
| 13 | This figure is calculated on the assumption that an album retails for just under £7 . |
| 14 | It has two components : a quoted margin above ( although sometimes below ) the reference rate , and a capital gain or loss element which is calculated under the assumption that the difference between the current price of the FRN and the maturity value is spread evenly over the remaining life of the FRN . |
| 15 | However , there is a net outflow of as much as 10 per cent and it is this ‘ lost ’ fluid which is drained by the lymphatics and returned to the circulation . |
| 16 | One pupil , sitting in the coveted position alongside the radiator , is gazing through the window and into the distance . |
| 17 | It also means ensuring that any risk inherent in investment advice is explained to the client and clearly understood by him . |
| 18 | More specifically , in sentences such as those above , in which an event mentioned in the first clause is explained by a reason or cause stated in a following because clause , that world knowledge includes information about what Garvey & Caramazza ( 1974 ) call the implicit causality of the verb in the first clause . |
| 19 | Historically , the distinction is explained by the view that writing was a premeditated and calculated act , which affected reputation much more drastically and permanently than off-the-cuff comments . |
| 20 | Her affection for the Bomb is explained by the fact that it is energy-charged and penis-shaped . |
| 21 | This is explained by the fact that the unemployment rate is lower among Protestants generally and that Easton 's population , besides being Protestant , is also disproportionately middle class . |
| 22 | The eerie lunar landscape of white spoil-heaps around St Austell is explained by the fact that there are eight tons of waste to every ton of china clay extracted . |
| 23 | This phenomenon is explained by the fact that elements can be introduced into mental models without being explicitly mentioned . |
| 24 | The extraordinary proximity of All Saints and St. John 's is explained by the fact that they form the neck of the bull . |
| 25 | This paradox is explained by the fact that in Britain the vast majority of older people are poor and there is therefore less difference in income levels between the group . |
| 26 | The large share of " other " personal service and " other " operatives working on a temporary basis is explained by the fact that they are in jobs for which little training is necessary . |
| 27 | This paradox is explained by the fact that the figures are of no relevance to the operation of the housing department throughout the rest of the year . |
| 28 | This apparent contradiction is explained by the fact that , overall , almost one in five IT specialists were continuing their studies , usually aiming for PhD qualifications . |
| 29 | This is explained by the fact that eradicating H pylori resolved the increased acid secretion caused by the increased antral gastrin release but did not resolve that caused by their exaggerated acid response to gastrin . |
| 30 | Such a concern is explained by the fact that these countries had repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to go to enormous lengths ( in effect taxing imports of capital , encouraging exports of capital and , even in the case of Japan , organizing plans for importing huge stockpiles of raw materials ) in order to prevent an upward movement of their currencies . |