Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When someone is said to act or react with ‘ full ’ or ‘ sufficient ’ awareness — qualifications which recur in our argument without further explanation , with no doubt irritating frequency — it is implied that he is aware of everything relevant to his choice of means or ends . |
| 2 | Someone is going to rule whether the big world likes it or not . |
| 3 | The hotline scheme coincides with a new £1.2m exhibition gallery at the museum , ‘ Food for Thought ’ which is intended to entertain and to instruct visitors about the past present and future of food , food industries , eating out , and food fashion — ranging from Lyons corner houses and Palm Court tea rooms in the 1920s and 1930s to the coffee bars of the Fifties and McDonalds fast-food outlets of the 1980s . |
| 4 | The Boston text relates more exclusively to the movement itself and includes , along with historical material , a brief statement by Mark Francis which is intended to justify and explain the motives behind the exhibition ( the Situationists did not give the event their blessings and none of the past members participated in its planning ) . |
| 5 | Crucial to the arguments of Bailey and Bickerton is the scaleability of their data , which is intended to show that the rules are added in a set order ( reflecting the historical development — the " decreolisation " of the language ) , and resulting in a systematic ordering of lects from bottom to top . |
| 6 | The main safeguards in this area are the Housing Acts , supported by public health legislation , which is intended to ensure that no person should be allowed to live in a dwelling that is unfit for human habitation . |
| 7 | The projects are partially funded by the European Community 's Trade EDI Systems , TEDIS , programme , which is intended to encourage and promote increased EDI usage within the European Economic Area , covering the European Free Trade Association countries as well as the European Community . |
| 8 | In other words Braque is in effect saying ‘ My picture is an object , a flat surface , and the spatial sensations it evokes are a painter 's space which is intended to inform and not to deceive . ’ |
| 9 | It attacks Christianity for its doctrine of the Incarnation , which is seen to suggest that God could be a human being . |
| 10 | Special fabrics are often used for the backs of sacks to assist in combatting perspiration which is bound to occur when the sack is close to your back . |
| 11 | This requirement , it says , is far more burdensome than the equivalent requirement in the directive , which is limited to credit and financial institutions . |
| 12 | Many a woman who considers herself kind , compassionate and unselfish has been horrified to catch a glimpse of something underlying that , something which is determined to catch and hold a person , which can be jealous and possessive and cares nothing at all for the claims of others . |
| 13 | Larger holes should be filled with decorator 's filler paste ( such as Polyfilla ) , which is allowed to harden before the face is rubbed down . |
| 14 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |
| 15 | The Law Society and the Legal Aid Board have agreed to introduce a Scheme which is designed to ensure that only competent solicitors ' representatives advise suspects at police stations . |
| 16 | The UK Home Care Association has asked the SSI to look into the activities of an agency which is offering to vet and licence domiciliary care providers . |
| 17 | IBM , Boeing and Paramax , a Unisys Corp company , are collaborating on STARS , which is meant to develop and integrate technologies in support of megaprogramming . |
| 18 | Scottish Enterprise , which is fighting to ensure that the 1,000-strong workforce at Digital 's Ayr plant does not lose out in the battle for jobs , also had senior officials in Boston yesterday for talks with the company , reiterating the case for the Ayrshire plant . |
| 19 | But what is important is that there is opposition er Chairman at the national level which is set to continue and once again representations are being undertaken er to be made to local Members of Parliament and to Members of the House of Lords . |
| 20 | The whole dictionary is processed in this way , a frequency count for each gram is collected , and each gram has a flag which is set to true if it occurs as a separate word ( i.e. dictionary entry length equals required gram length ) . |
| 21 | A technique which is used to suggest that the people are at a very early stage of linguistic development is underlexicalisation : the use of a restricted vocabulary and the avoidance of terms outside the experience and linguistic resources of the people ( see Fowler 1981 : 40 ; 1986 : 152 – 4 ) . |
| 22 | Hippocrates ( the father of modem medicine ) said that anything which is used develops while anything which is not used simply wastes away . |
| 23 | Sun , which reckons its US distribution is thin , is expected to strike first at SCO which is deemed over-distributed and stagnant . |
| 24 | The anthropologists ' work of reconstruction carries with it a major temptation , which is to try to show that every part of an exotic culture is coherent and consistent with all the other parts . |
| 25 | And water does not allow the full natural movement of the body under the force of gravity which is needed to develop and retain structural strength in the bones . |
| 26 | Instead , she argues for a socialization theory which sees the individual as ‘ a function of what people around her expect her to be , and what the over-all situation in which she is acting implies that she is ’ ( 1973 : 395 ) . |
| 27 | The tags are put on in front of the mother and she is asked to confirm that the name is right . |
| 28 | She is led to believe that she will be happy and fulfilled if she serves others , devoting herself to the needs of her husband and children . |
| 29 | This may be a good moment to indicate to her very gently that she has grieved well and long , and that if she is beginning to feel that her period of mourning is nearing its end ( even though you appreciate that she will always carry the scars of her sorrow ) , you are ready to give her any help she needs to adjust to her new and different life . |
| 30 | She is bound to answer that there is no possible action and that the Shops Act 1950 is an unenforceable law . |