Example sentences of "is [verb] [to-vb] [is] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The threshold at which mental handicap is considered to commence is at an IQ of 70 , although people with IQs of between 50 and 70 are considered only mildly mentally handicapped , and most children in this category will pass through the educational process along with other children .
2 ‘ The only way this is going to end is by political resolution and that is what we have been campaigning for .
3 The child who is learning to read is in a situation that is likely to encourage him to begin to consider possibilities in relation to at least one important act of thought : the apprehension of meaning .
4 That could well be a bit of verisimilitude , it may well be the original man Moses was a powerful man with a powerful temper and perhaps this was come down to us er as , as a bit of historical truth , but erm nevertheless the whole figure of Moses and his laws by later generations and this , this th what Freud is trying to do is to erm undo this rewriting the process again truth .
5 And what the manifesto is , is trying to do is to er set an agenda for about how the lot of private homes can be improved , and er fixing rent is one thing which the government er traditionally has had a responsibility for and which needs , er must be linked in with conditions because what we have at the moment is a situation where you get , in Oxford , a er a family living in one room being charged er over two hundred pounds a week by an individual landlord , and that 's clearly unacceptable .
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