Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun sg] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this solid background of personal local knowledge , and the way in which their main volume of repeat business is topped up by firm personal recommendations , means that their lending decisions can generally be based on a truly accurate perception of the customer 's ability and will to repay . |
| 2 | The TYPE OF KNITTING menu is displayed on your TV monitor screen . |
| 3 | In this , the role of delaying syntax is to postpone the interpretation of one structure until another has been taken in , so that they ultimately make sense as a whole rather than in sequence . |
| 4 | If the point of inducing labour is to reduce risks to the neonate then it may be failing . |
| 5 | This process of inducing dreaming is called incubation . |
| 6 | The status of daydreaming about holidays , housing and related themes as conventional ways of expressing discontent is suggested by a passage from the interview with Elizabeth Gould , an ex-fashion model . |
| 7 | The goal of expressing praise is to meet with God , in whose presence there is healing and truth and life in all its fullness . |
| 8 | The practical work of establishing comparability is undertaken by groups of experts from each member state . |
| 9 | Almost the whole problem of writing poetry is to bring it back to what you really feel , and that takes an awful lot of manoeuvring . |
| 10 | The notion of paying GP 's to provide certain specified standards of service and undertake certain preventative health measures was a step forward , in terms of both public health accountability and promoting better health . |
| 11 | A beautiful collection of racing art is portrayed in fine works by Stubbs , Herring and Munnings , amongst others , together with exquisite bronzes and objects . |
| 12 | For both Habermas and Althusser the problem of analysing ideology is bound up with the status of valid knowledge . |
| 13 | The image of bullying boss is confirmed by the Willie Morgan affair . |
| 14 | An easier method of installing fabric is to fix it to a frame . |
| 15 | This issue of getting help is considered in more detail below . |
| 16 | The effect of removing noise is to clean up the image while the effect of removing local variability is to smooth the boundaries and emphasize the regional pattern present in the image . |
| 17 | In this section the effect of an e.m.f. on a solid piece of conducting body is studied . |
| 18 | The elegance and grace of riding side-saddle is reiterated in the dress code . |
| 19 | It happens because the water has been shut off too quickly , and the shock to the column of moving water is transmitted to the pipe walls . |
| 20 | Any kid will tell you that the worst part of moving house is having to start at a new school where you do n't know anyone , and I was scared stiff . |
| 21 | A trial programme of prescribing methadone is to begin in the next two weeks at Edinburgh 's Saughton prison . |
| 22 | This form of doing business is known as ‘ establishment ’ . |
| 23 | This simpler form of doing business is known as the ‘ provision of services ’ and occurs where a business remains in the member state in which it is established , and provides services , from that base , into another member state . |
| 24 | The object of clarifying butter is to rid it of water , buttermilk sediment , salt and any foreign matter which ( a ) for purposes of frying cause the butter to blacken and burn , and ( b ) render it susceptible to eventual rancidity . |
| 25 | There are now two further exclusions which apply — if the insured at the time of effecting insurance is receiving inpatient treatment or is on a waiting list for inpatient treatment and if he has received a terminal prognosis then no payments will be made . |
| 26 | However , autonomous replication occurs in only 50-70% of the transformants , suggesting a defect in the recognition of the Tetrahymena telomeric template by the putative P. anserina telomerase so that only a fraction of entering DNA is stabilized into linear extrachromosomal molecules . |
| 27 | Another way of identifying ovulation is checking the consistency of cervical mucus ( vaginal discharge ) . |
| 28 | The implementation of housing policy is fragmented not only because of the mixture of kinds of housing authorities ; this is an area of social policy in which many significant decisions are made by private agencies . |
| 29 | One method of assessing need is to use mortality statistics collected by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) . |
| 30 | The first step in the process of selecting software is to find out what is available . |