Example sentences of "is [verb] [art] [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to the many other ways in which CARE is helping the world 's poorest people to find a way out of poverty and ill-health . |
| 2 | Another option open to any single mother is to sue the baby 's father for child maintenance . |
| 3 | The same kind of point is illustrated by ( 19 ) , except here it is more likely that it is the notion of full luminescence which is explained in the more familiar terms given in the reformulation : In these examples , the speaker 's aim in reformulating an utterance is to enrich the hearer 's encyclopedic entries in order to ensure a greater understanding of the surrounding discourse or text . |
| 4 | At the back of the imperial suite , on the ground floor , is situated the Emperor 's enormous bedroom : on both sides of the bed are hung paintings of King Louis and Queen Hortense . |
| 5 | The basis of the new method is to monitor the system 's ration and , as each step is completed , determine the load torque . |
| 6 | The idea is to compare a store 's performance not just with its historical record , but with some more objective measure of how well it should be doing . |
| 7 | Superficially , the most immediate effect of sunburn is to kick-start the skin 's healing process . |
| 8 | His main use I think is to bolster the reader 's view of Eddie and is used by Miller to drive home Eddie 's feelings in case you do not know them already . |
| 9 | Other patients who have the same unconscious impulses to engage in oral sex — for example , an adult male or female who is married and dreams he or she is sucking a man 's penis and imbibing the semen — may deny the impulses . |
| 10 | The convention which usually governs references is to include the writer 's initials followed by the initials of the person who typed it — ES/NS . |
| 11 | Here , one of the striking effects of lesions is to affect the animal 's capacity to learn spatial tasks — for instance to run mazes . |
| 12 | His role is to uphold the Emperor 's justice during trials of combat . |
| 13 | Unesco 's proposals for helping the National Library are also of interest : one suggestion is to connect the library 's book stores by satellite with the information network in other countries . |
| 14 | Similarly , IPCC is looking at the possibility that sulphate pollution in the northern hemisphere is reflecting the sun 's heat and retarding global warming — another case where pollution control could raise fresh problems . |
| 15 | He knows his ex-wife is poisoning the boy 's mind . |
| 16 | The film company which made ’ The Bridge ’ is sponsoring a school 's English department in this unique arrangement . |
| 17 | Although all that is required , where the new husband is acquiring the husband 's interest , is an assignment of the husband 's equitable interest , this is plainly impracticable as neither the new husband nor the wife will wish the husband to continue to have any interest at all in the property . |
| 18 | We say it 's wrong because football is considered a gentleman 's game . ’ |
| 19 | Cognac is associated with smooth sophisticates , while armagnac is considered a peasant 's tipple . |
| 20 | The West German vessel is considered the world 's most sophisticated conventionally powered submarine , both in combat efficiency and ‘ sustainability ’ or battery storage capacity . |
| 21 | That is one reason why Justice Souter , the quintessential apolitical ‘ black-letter ’ lawyer , is becoming the court 's intellectual motor . |
| 22 | Writing out notes helps to fix items in the memory , but it is not a good idea to use notes in a TV interview , as one of the effects of television is to diminish the speaker 's authority if he has to refer to notes continually . |
| 23 | The objective in collecting this sort of information is to discover the patient 's usual routines ; what can and can not be done independently ; what previous coping mechanisms have been employed ; and what problems exist or may develop in relation to this AL . |
| 24 | You see , the primary aim of SWISS LIFE Network is to provide the world 's best employee benefit plans . |
| 25 | The philosophy of the COB Rules is to deregulate the firm 's relationship with non-private customers ( see page 35 below ) as far as possible ; this is the case even if they are discretionary . |
| 26 | What it does is demonstrate the candidate 's ability to operate in English and a community language adequately in ordinary community contexts . |
| 27 | Its aim is to increase the public 's awareness of funerary culture and all things death-related by illustrating human attitudes to death at different periods of history . |
| 28 | The purpose of the subsidy is to increase the recipient 's consumption of good X. While the cash transfer appears efficient at increasing the recipient 's welfare , it is not the best instrument to stimulate consumption of a particular good . |
| 29 | The effect of this change is to increase the group 's revaluation reserves and the book value of freehold and long leasehold premises by £18.4m . |
| 30 | Lord Halifax , High steward of York Minster and chairman of the York Minster Fund is to launch the fund 's 25th anniversary year next Tuesday . |