Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [conj] [verb] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It should also be remembered that anyone , married or single , who is maintaining or accommodating a dependent relative over 65 ( or a mother or mother-in-law on her own ) is entitled to claim a tax allowance . |
| 2 | Beauracrats , teachers and pupils say the only way parents can judge a school is to go and take a look at it |
| 3 | I think if you feel like that , the great thing is to go and punch a cushion — let off steam somehow or other But , if possible , do n't let it off on your carer ! |
| 4 | Try putting yourself at five or six hundred feet directly over the landing area of your gliding site and see for yourself how difficult it is to plan and make a spot landing . |
| 5 | In this chapter , a more serious objection to the inductivist 's position is developed that involves a criticism , not of the inductions by which scientific knowledge is supposed to be derived from observation , but of the inductivist 's assumptions concerning the status and role of observation itself . |
| 6 | After a year in hospital the pension may be reduced still further , but if your parent is treated as having a dependant this will be taken into account . |
| 7 | The wording here ( ‘ is treated as having a separate deposit ’ ) is different from subsection ( 3 ) ( ‘ treated as entitled to the deposit ’ ) , but in my view the intended effect is clear and is the same in both cases . |
| 8 | In applying these principles to competing share transfers , a transferee prior to registration is treated as having an equitable interest only but registration converts his interest into a legal one . |
| 9 | This regime makes the settlor of a non-UK resident trust liable to capital gains tax on gains made by the trustees where the settlor has an interest , or is treated as having an interest , in the trust ( the trustees themselves being outside the UK capital gains tax net if a majority of them are neither resident nor ordinarily resident in the UK and the general administration of the trust is carried on outside the UK — see s69 TCGA 1992 ) . |
| 10 | The presence of an antithetic fault on the hanging wall margin can give the impression of a symmetric rift valley if it is exposed and forms an escarpment , even though the overall structure is asymmetric . |
| 11 | You should enter the name of each of your students when the first test is received and maintain an ongoing record of the following information in respect of each test : — |
| 12 | The dietician is consulted and provides a commercially made liquid diet which will give Mr Reynolds the nutrients he needs and is high in calories and protein . |
| 13 | The Liverpudlian writer is producing and directing an all-British film called Getaway due for cinema release next spring . |
| 14 | A doctor is called , and he 's diagnosed as having a minor case of blood poisoning , caused by drinking too heavily ( a three-day stint which started on the transatlantic flight and ended in the White Horse Tavern ) . |
| 15 | If B is threatened with a tort it is , of course , equally true that he may bring an action for damages if the tort is committed or bring an action for a quia timet injunction first , but , especially where the threat is of violence , it is perhaps less realistic to say that these legal remedies afford him adequate protection against the consequences of resistance . |
| 16 | By contrast , if a decision is to be made about whether a pupil is to pass or fail an examination then a boundary would have to be set . |
| 17 | The idea is to try and develop a steady build up of air play before the record is released so that on the week of release there is a good demand for the record and this reflects in your chart position . |
| 18 | I 'm not saying we have done this in an ad hoc way up to now but what we want is to try and develop a programme for this and I think that should be a very useful and , and frankly I would expect it to grow er over the years as the need develops . |
| 19 | ‘ The aim of this inquiry into the order relating to case no. 596 , in the charge of Miss P. Sulkins , home visitor in the employ of the Bamborough Area Council for Social Service until last year — the pink file , sir — and transferred from the list covered by the South Midlands ( Eastern Section ) Administrative Area — the papers in the yellow folder , sir — is to try and establish an order of events that stretch over no little period in time , so that responsibility for the unfortunate outcome of these actions , or as some have chosen to prejudge this enquiry , lack of action , may be apportioned justly between the various bodies responsible under the Act . |
| 20 | The lake is frozen and provides a pleasant path to the back of the cwm . |
| 21 | In the wild this fish is reported as attaining a length of up to 18″ with a weight of 1½lb although this would appear to be the exception as species of about 6″ are more commonly the rule . |
| 22 | Only one member of the feudal class , Sir Robert Knolles , is reported as playing a major part in the attack on the rebels in London , although the earl of Suffolk and Bishop Despenser of Norwich were prominent in the repression in East Anglia . |
| 23 | But if the Section Sergeant goes in for any necessary purpose , the Inspector comes in , he is reported and gets a severe reprimand from his superiors for idling his time in the Station . |
| 24 | Middle-class children , on the other hand , drew explicit attention to the test conditions : ‘ this is a picture ; in the picture a boy is depicted as kicking a ball through a window … ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 25 | It is via these windows that the system informs the Offline Operator what is happening and requests a media item to be physically mounted or dismounted on the appropriate media unit ; in this case mounting refers only to the action of placing a media item onto a media unit . |
| 26 | This is society 's attempt to recognize what is happening and to institute a mourning process . |
| 27 | Bagshot , Surrey-based consultancy OutSource International Ltd is to establish and manage a network of UK resellers for Transputer-based massively parallel database systems builder White Cross Systems Ltd : the aim is to generate some £20m in revenues for White Cross over the next three years ; OutSource is recruiting UK resellers through its ChannelSource Europe arm , and they will target medium sized customers in the finance , retail and insurance sectors ; European White Cross channels in France , Germany , Italy and Switzerland are set to follow . |
| 28 | Bagshot , Surrey-based consultancy OutSource International Ltd is to establish and manage a network of UK resellers for Transputer-based massively parallel database systems builder White Cross Systems Ltd : the aim is to generate some £20m in revenues for White Cross over the next three years ; OutSource is recruiting UK resellers through its ChannelSource Europe arm , and they will target medium sized customers in the finance , retail and insurance sectors ; European White Cross channels in France , Germany , Italy and Switzerland are set to follow . |
| 29 | The woman 's sexuality is presented as provoking a violent sexual response in the man . |
| 30 | Furnished in a modern style the hotel is airconditioned and has a lift . |