Example sentences of "[v-ing] is [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Walking is good for the soul , it 's .
2 When the winding is to be excited both transistors ( are switched on , so the voltage applied to the phase winding is equal to the sun , of the two supply voltages ( VL + VH ) , the diode D2 being reverse-biased by VH.There is no series resistance to limit the current , which therefore starts to rise towards a value which is many times the rated winding current .
3 Each phase winding is excited by a separate drive circuit , which is controlled by a low-power " phase control signal " .
4 Shouting is one of the useful skills he is learning .
5 The issue of population ageing is central to the consideration of current arrangements for the provision of care by formal services .
6 Wages undercutting is one of the possible results of abolition .
7 Perming is one of the main causes of lifeless hair but it is avoidable if you use the correct products to protect and moisturise it .
8 certainly do n't think where we going is suitable for a puddy tat , hours and hours on end and not being allowed to go outside and even when we 're there , I say , we ca n't be running up and down them bloody staircases letting cats out , I could n't , I could n't bear the thought of it never going out .
9 Low kicks to the legs are not allowed , but apart from that and a few other rules , kickboxing is similar to the other martial art ring-sports .
10 There is not detailed remembering of the book , but even the full title , Primitive Culture : Researches into the Development of Mythology , Philosophy , Religion , Language , Art , and Custom , shows that Tylor 's conception of culture as all embracing is one of the keys to Eliot 's work .
11 A phenomenological exploration of topic-directional modes of experiencing is essential to a clarification of the structure of reference .
12 Feeding and nutrition of horses is one of the few areas where independent specialist advice is quite difficult to find even though feeding is one of the most important aspects of horse management .
13 The cephalic phase response to feeding is one of the best recognised examples of modulation of the gut secretory function by the central nervous system .
14 An analogy that is worth considering is that of a landlord and tenant relationship .
15 Sharing is characteristic of a certain kind of non-competitive egalitarianism because it eliminates the possibility of debt ( cf.
16 Manson & Co. guitars are n't as cheap as Japanese imports but what you 're getting is one of the classiest handmade acoustics in Britain , fully customised to your requirements with extra inlays or even a pickup , and left-handers do n't cost a bean extra .
17 The amount of slashing is optional for the time being .
18 The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that what he is saying is crucial to the livelihood of thousands of people in my constituency .
19 What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low .
20 But if it 's not required by law , then I can not issue , and if people ask for advice we are obliged under Fire Services , the Fire Services Act to give that advice , but what I 'm really saying is that with the , the pressure of work on the Fire Safety Department , it 's likely that if it 's a fairly low risk to life , we 'll never get round to it , and that 's the honest truth .
21 Erm , the other thing I 'd like to draw your attention to is para six point one , just a little tabulation there , because what they 're saying is that on the number of cuts per specification , that 's what exists now , er three hundred and twenty eight thousand , that 's about the same as this year , er if you go to the hundred millimetre cut , which is what we 're suggesting we do on a trial basis , the cost to the County Council will amount to another hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year .
22 Yeah is , what you 're saying is that on the one hand he was saying right let's have absolute equality of distribution but at the same time he quite clear that peasants .
23 Can I just clarify , what , what you 're saying is that in a sense there is this overall aim of getting through to socialism but the means of getting there have now changed so that we 've gone from absolute egalitarianism , which is , is an immediate step tow towards socialism you 've gone away from that and the position is now to create a rich peasant economy in order to industrialize , in order to get through to collectivization , I E into socialism .
24 Thus the pressure , both inner and outer , on teachers to have a clear , articulate rationale for what they are doing is high at the same time as the exploration of the values from which such a rationale must derive is conspicuously out of style .
25 Erm and I I I think again like , what should erm we should be doing is more of the developmental , preventive type of work .
26 Staring is one of the few things frogs are good at .
27 It is possible that the question you are asking is different from the sorts of discussion you have encountered in what you have read on the subject .
28 The words that flow silently across the screen in rolling credit type are : ‘ Every word has its own vibrational frequency.The tone you are hearing is that of the word ‘ Love ’ .
29 The point I keep making is that in a press release they ought to include at least enough information briefly so that whoever 's reading it can pick up the angle or the possible use .
30 The ‘ story-tellers ’ and ‘ story-listeners ’ who have accumulated in Babel sound eerily familiar : ‘ Mythologising is afoot in every rationally laid-out square .
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