Example sentences of "is [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 2 | Worse , Labour is accumulating fresh odium from having 40 per cent of the votes in its electoral college cast by union barons , after varying unsatisfactory forms of consultation . |
| 3 | To hasten this process , the Japanese government is helping private industry through its Computer Basic Technology Research Association . |
| 4 | Explaining the move , IBCA said that the banks ' underlying operating profits were on a sharply improving trend which is helping offset asset quality problems . |
| 5 | A COURT of Appeal Judge who cheated death in an IRA bomb explosion six years ago is to retire this week . |
| 6 | Second is that by ordering ahead of conventionally-defined need , the CEGB is comparing the economics of investing in Sizewell with the economics of doing nothing , that is maintaining old plant . |
| 7 | Excretion of administered interleukin-2 and difficulties is maintaining adequate fluid and electrolyte balance are the most common clinically severe toxicities encountered . |
| 8 | Blake is using one sense after the other , as you have learned to do . |
| 9 | Here , the child is using one object to represent another . |
| 10 | What yo you do is using that bracket there |
| 11 | Even though the defendant does not regard the nature of his own conduct as being disorderly , he has a sufficient mens rea to satisfy the section by being aware that he is using offensive language , or kicking over dustbins or turning out the lights in the cinema , or whatever else may be alleged to constitute the disorderly behaviour . |
| 12 | Here , however , Colin is using modern physics to support Christianity , on the basis that science can not provide certain knowledge , and that we must therefore look elsewhere for certainty . |
| 13 | In terms of and subject to the limitations of and for the purposes of this Section the Corporation will indemnify any person who is using such Caravan with the permission of the Policyholder provided that |
| 14 | The consortium is using two reference systems : a Sun-made Sparcstation 2 and a Fujitsu-made DS/90-7000 server running UXP/DS , Fujitsu 's version of System V.4 . |
| 15 | This spreading effect means that insurance risk is often confused with Broadway risk , A corporation that says , " let us spread the-risk by not putting all our eggs in one basket " is using neither type of risk effectively . |
| 16 | 1978 ) administered in the early stages of the visually handicapped child 's schooling is a useful predictor of areas of visual perception that may be a source of problems when the child is using ordinary play materials , pictures and toys . |
| 17 | ( In effect , such treatment is using bright light as a time-cue to adjust the body clock appropriately . ) |
| 18 | This is a result of pressure from British , French , Spanish and Belgian beer manufacturers which claim Germany is using this law to keep them out of its ( huge ) market . |
| 19 | At the start of the move phase the player declares how much steam he is using this turn — in effect how high a pressure he wants to run the boiler at . |
| 20 | Mark is using this story to show that Jesus is the anointed one , and that , as Messiah , he was about to suffer and die . |
| 21 | erm Peter wants to tighten up on on on the business of erm carrying holidays over and I think he 's right , actually , erm and he also is using this opportunity to try to et us to plan our holidays as a group so that we 're not all off at the same time , or if it 's appropriate we should all be off a the same time then we 're off at the same time , but it 's erm common sense should prevail one way or another , but it would be a good idea if you could let me have erm a brief indication of any major times you plan to be away . |
| 22 | Can I just express my e concern that erm Mr is using this examination in public as a an opportunity to knock other schemes in the Greater York area . |
| 23 | A separate LLNL project is using high intensity UV light to destroy VOCs in water , but this has trouble with C=C bonds ; however X-rays destroy these just as well as single bonds . |
| 24 | He believes Mr Mitterrand is using Tory disarray over the treaty to cover up his own reluctance to reach a Gatt world trade deal . |
| 25 | Some hospitals have lost 15 per cent of their nurses and in the south Ashford hospital , Surrey is using Red Cross volunteers . |
| 26 | This is an altogether more simple reading of the section , and would apply where the policeman comes across a person who is using abusive language , and comes to the conclusion that it is likely that somebody in the audience will intervene to put a stop to it , using unlawful violence ( citizens may have the power to prevent a breach of the peace , but not to preserve the public quiet ) . |
| 27 | A lot of dance music is using sub bass , subsonic sounds . |
| 28 | John Hartland , marketing director of the Ford vehicle leasing arm of Forward Trust , Midland Bank 's finance house , says : ‘ Ford , as a manufacturer , is using subsidised interest rates to Ford Credit in a big way , to combat its decline in overall market share . |
| 29 | The refinery has effectively eliminated all its metal backlogs and is using improved service and faster lead times to win increased market shares . |
| 30 | First , the Keynesian function includes current national income , whereas Friedman is using permanent income as a proxy for total wealth . |