Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One approach is to carry out experiments with a digitizing table in order to determine empirically an appropriate distribution for digitizing errors . |
| 2 | A company is stepping up trials of a new drug aimed at stopping the spread of AIDS . |
| 3 | While he discerns a bank of computers by the wall ( one student is typing up minutes of the monthly group meeting now in progress ) , Michael begins to feel a little more at home in this rather ramshackle world . |
| 4 | AN MP is keeping up pressure on the Government to improve East Anglia 's coastal defences after last month 's surge tide which resulted in widespread flooding . |
| 5 | A HAMBLETON businessman is to set up shop outside the area after allegedly being given a rough ride by the district council . |
| 6 | The general policy is to set off overpayments in the manner that is most advantageous to the taxpayer . |
| 7 | Norway 's most eloquent campaigner against the Community is Anne Enger Lahnstein , leader of the Centre Party , which , like the anti-EC Socialist Left Party , is picking up support at the expense of Labour , which forms the minority government . |
| 8 | This is to pick up changes in the cells on the cervix ( neck of the womb ) which might in time go on to become cancer . |
| 9 | Grandmother Sylvia Pye is breaking up wood with a sledgehammer at the roadside . |
| 10 | IN a bid to get people to sign the electoral register , from today Darlington council is sending out leaflets about the electoral register and postal and proxy votes . |
| 11 | It 's always exacting to work a patchwork sweater , simply by joining together a group of your test pieces , but a similar idea is to mark out patches on a squared sweater diagram and work a variety of these patterns for a sampler sweater . |
| 12 | The one thing that these , and other applications have in common , is a measurement of the Hall effect , in which , in certain circumstances , a voltage is set up perpendicular to a magnetic field and a current passing through a material . |
| 13 | Another idea is to stir up cornflour with the juice from raspberries or blackberries and boil it , stirring all the time until thick . |
| 14 | The right solution is to auction off slots to the highest bidder . |
| 15 | Of course , all this is doing is storing up trouble for the subsequent financial year ; nevertheless , the financial control through the budget is effectively lost . |
| 16 | The Japanese government is putting up 90% of the funds , but 14 private institutions are taking part , including NEC Corp , Hitachi Ltd and Fujitsu Ltd . |
| 17 | Advanced RISC has also won a new shareholder , Nippon Investment & Finance Co of Tokyo , which is putting up £650,000 for an undisclosed stake in the company alongside Acorn Computer Group Plc , Apple and VLSI Technology Inc . |
| 18 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 19 | A HARD-UP council is forking out £3,800 on a SHOWER for its boss . |
| 20 | Explain it is clearing up time in the cookery room . |
| 21 | The aim of the projects is to bring about change in the degree curriculum which will encourage students to develop qualities and skills which extend beyond the specialised knowledge of their degree courses . |
| 22 | Behind us the ghostly apparition of Sister Twister is disappearing down south like a lonely wispy drunk . |
| 23 | The company also said it is working out details of a tentative $5m settlement of a shareholder suit filed after it lost its only Cray-3 customer . |
| 24 | The company also said it is working out details of a tentative $5m settlement of a shareholder suit filed after it lost its only Cray-3 customer . |