Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assume the bistable is set by pressing the TRIGGER switch , S1 , Q becomes 1 and current passes to the base of the transistor , TR1 , via resistor R3 and operates buzzer , WD1 . |
| 2 | It might seem that the most promising as well as most appropriate way to approach the task of clarifying the concept of ontological existent is to begin by exploring the logical characteristics of proper names . |
| 3 | At best it shows only that something similar is happening without showing why , or identifying key causal processes . |
| 4 | And the problem of other minds ( ch. 5 ) can be presented as the problem of how , if at all , my observation of the behaviour of human bodies justifies my belief that those bodies are people ; little extra is gained by asking whether and how I know that they are people . |
| 5 | Therefore , a person charged under s.9(1) ( b ) may be convicted under s.9(1) ( a ) because the former includes the latter when the accused is charged with entering with intent to steal or inflict grievous bodily harm : see Whiting ( 1987 ) 85 Cr App R 78 . |
| 6 | The doctor 's duty to the terminally ill is centred on making the patient comfortable until death . |
| 7 | They deny , however , that anything useful is added by referring to states of the brain in terms of awareness or consciousness , or even as representations of the environment . |
| 8 | Stations not meeting their targets ( and there were some ) got nothing whatsoever , and neither did NE head office staff where the schemes do not apply , Scottish nuclear is committed to introducing a performance related pay or performance bonus Company-wide but the scheme must operate on a self-financing basis . |
| 9 | What is far more important is to work on creating an atmosphere , a climate , where running is the norm . |
| 10 | Overweight is caused by eating more energy-giving foods than are needed , so that the excess is turned into fat instead of being burned up . |
| 11 | In many cases , being overweight is caused by eating too much of the ‘ wrong ’ type of foods , such as those with high sugar and fat content . |
| 12 | The extraordinary deceleration possible is shown to converting pilots in the ‘ High Speed Arrival ’ exercise . |
| 13 | The effect of being rich is obtained by subtracting the proportion of poor people who would break the law from the proportion of rich people who would . |
| 14 | As for Europe , the Liberal Democrats explicitly espouse a federal system and the consequent eclipse of the British nation , while Labour is committed to handing over control of our currency to the EC . |
| 15 | But other things would change : Labour is committed to abolishing the plastic baton round used by the security forces to control riots . |
| 16 | British Gas South Western is committed to playing its part in the integrated national control network of gas supplies . |
| 17 | After all , one alternative upon discovering from an activity-based costing system that many products are unprofitable is to focus on reducing their costs rather than close down their production lines . |
| 18 | Hyundai Electronic America 's Axil Workstations Inc is bent on conquering the slippery slopes of Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc cloning , and last week announced the Axil-220 , a MicroSparc knock-off of the Sparc Classic undercutting Sun by pricing it at $3,600 in single quantities and letting it run Solaris 1.1 as well as 2. x . |
| 19 | SunSoft Inc is planning on giving away free Solaris Developer Packs for Solaris-on-Intel or Solaris-on-Sparc at next month 's Solaris 80x86 rollout-cum-Developers ' Conference in California ( UX No 421 ) . |
| 20 | Media Cybernetics Inc is planning on showing off its new platform-independent Halo Imaging Library at next week 's Software Development Show in California : the stuff provides 100 imaging functions and commands , allowing programmers to write C programs that can read and store image files in several file formats and processing images in memory . |
| 21 | Hewlett-Packard Co is crossing itself to ward off any demons that would give it the same misery Sun Microsystems Inc is going through moving from Solaris 1.0 to Solaris 2.0 . |