Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A " biosociety " says Professor A. Behrens , a prominent member of the project , " is one that should be fully aware of the problems of life in all its forms and of a balanced " input/output " in energy and materials … [ and ] is using biotechnology to an optimal extent in order to guarantee a proper balance between human needs ( partially represented by industrial needs ) , natural resources , and the environment " ( Oberursal , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 3 | I am not interested in scoring cheap points in this debate about the underfunding of sport , but if sport is using underfunding as an excuse or justification for taking large amounts of money from the tobacco industry , the Government must address the question whether they should put more money into sport so that sport does not have to use that excuse . |
| 4 | One of the most important is using information about the type of data stored in order to prevent howlers . |
| 5 | When a leader in the Independent accuses Freddie Mercury of being a bad example because of homosexual acts committed in strictly guarded privacy before he realised he was at risk , it is using science as a screen for unexamined prejudice . |
| 6 | We shall be particularly interested in discussing how a recipient might come to comprehend the producer 's intended message on a particular occasion , and how the requirements of the particular recipient(s) , in definable circumstances , influence the organisation of the producer 's discourse . |
| 7 | It should result in a clear statement of that practice area 's intended position in the marketplace and how it can differentiate itself from its competitors . |
| 8 | We seek to identify the writer 's intended referent for a pronoun , since a pronoun can , in effect , be used to refer to almost anything . |
| 9 | A landlord , who is not fully taxable , may grant to a fully-taxable tenant a tenant 's repairing lease with a clause giving the landlord the right to any indemnity from the tenant for necessary repairs . |
| 10 | There , in someone 's misbegotten idea of an English country house , sits the flagship of a worldwide , 145- store empire worth an estimated $3 billion , and built on America 's nagging class insecurity . |
| 11 | ‘ . ’ He is drawing attention to the fact that ‘ I know ’ is sometimes used by a speaker to commit himself to the truth of what he proceeds to say . |
| 12 | For the present exhibition , Thompson is drawing attention to the decade which witnessed the maturity of Minimalism and the emergence of Conceptual Art . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend is drawing attention to an important point about the underlying rate of inflation . |
| 14 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 15 | One of the functions of their facial disc is to transmit sound to the ears . |
| 16 | Furthermore , MailSort , the Post Office 's new bulk mailing rebate scheme which will come into full use in the Summer of '89 , is bringing computerisation to the direct marketing industry because it just is n't practical to sort mail by hand into thousands of individual postcodes . |
| 17 | With astonishing speed , one of the biggest road and rail construction projects ever undertaken in Northern Ireland is transforming transport in the commercial heart of the province . |
| 18 | The Bass museum is open throughout the year , and is situated north of the town centre . |
| 19 | Bocknang is situated south in the old western half of Germany . |
| 20 | Even ignoring its importance as a local employer , to say that a sector which earns 15 per cent of GDP , which finances most of the small business start-ups in Scotland , which provides capital for companies great and small , which finances pensions and insurance for thousands of Scots , as well as backing for a quarter of the UK 's institutional funds , does nothing to help the economy , is to carry ideology to the point of folly . |
| 21 | But possibly the most satisfying task for the Hercules and its crew is to carry aid to the needy . |
| 22 | Our approach is to promote awareness of the duties the Regulations impose . |
| 23 | Of these , education is particularly important : the national curriculum is to include citizenship as a cross-curricular subject and the National Curriculum Council is working on how this can be taught . |
| 24 | It is to include research into the techniques of sustainable timber extraction and the pharmaceutical and genetic potential of the South American country 's forest resources , centred on a newly-established scientific reserve of 3,400 square kilometres , close to the Brazilian border . |
| 25 | For The Possessed , outcomes ( including Dostoevsky 's healed man at the feet of Jesus ) are consoling myths . |
| 26 | Dr Focos is currently Fulbright Fellow in Sweden , and is completing research for a book on Zorn . |
| 27 | For the loyalists the purpose is to remain part of the U K and those two are so far apart , those two positions , that it 's impossible to see a bridge between them and that 's the difficulty . |
| 28 | Police have uncovered a murder victim 's hidden life after a national television appeal for fresh information . |
| 29 | The play , which Waterhouse adapted with Willis Hall , had the distinct dramatic disadvantage of confining Billy 's clamouring imagination to a drab , realistic setting . |
| 30 | They argue that the differential in living standards between the two groups is minimal and to see this as social mobility is to detract attention from the important fact that they are all part of the large urban poor whose poverty is due to the wider social formation and , in particular , the capitalist mode of production . |