Example sentences of "[verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Development in the open countryside would not normally be permitted is the way that the the draft policy 's guidance . |
| 62 | They boss is just gon na keep sending messages until one finally gets through . |
| 63 | The theory that had wrongly been supposed is that boiling water is hot enough to make tea . |
| 64 | Even dowsing is obliquely referred to in the official reports as ‘ probing with metal rods ’ ! |
| 65 | It implies nothing else : dowsing is not inherently more reliable than any other method involving the psychic senses . |
| 66 | The knack in dowsing is to be in the right frame of mind , not caring too much what answer you get , but at the same time having a clear idea of what you are looking for , otherwise you are opening yourself up to a very wide ‘ waveband ’ and things will get very confused . |
| 67 | The won is high . |
| 68 | A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites . |
| 69 | This dismemberment of the kingdom he had just won is indicative of the underlying weakness of Balliol 's position . |
| 70 | In grammar , putting a noun or noun equivalent beside another for the purpose of a more complete explanation or description , eg in The news that he had won surprised Tom , a young lad of eight the clause that he had won is in apposition to the noun news and the phrase a young lad of eight is in apposition to the noun Tom . |
| 71 | ( One of the few politicians so far to have mentioned raising taxes in an election campaign and still have won is Bill Clinton . ) |
| 72 | What convinces me that this child is deluded is the conflicting reports of the so-called apparition . |
| 73 | He send 's me a paper the old boy |
| 74 | ‘ Walking is the progression of steps so taken that unbroken contact with the ground is maintained at each step . |
| 75 | Of course walking is the chief activity . |
| 76 | Easily Accessible : Walking is a delight here as the area is never crowded and the walker can truly be alone with nature . |
| 77 | ‘ Walking is good for everyone whatever their age or level of fitness , ’ said Frank Kelly , the Health Promotion Agency 's physical activity programme manager . |
| 78 | Walking is good for the soul , it 's . |
| 79 | Tha oh you were walking is it ? |
| 80 | up there , for walking is n't it ? |
| 81 | Some gardeners will do anything to win prizes ( marrows filled with lead shot to add weight , for instance ) , but there 's one show where cheating is positively encouraged . |
| 82 | But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time . |
| 83 | Surely cheating is cheating , whatever form it takes , and I do not believe that the ‘ crimes ’ committed at the Olympics were any worse than that committed in Rome . |
| 84 | Cheating is easy . |
| 85 | It is easy to imagine cases where cheating is advantageous . |
| 86 | My guess is that you would draw a comparable , but equally misleading , conclusion from similar analysis of the human game of chess where cheating is not possible . |
| 87 | Why is she cheating is she ? |
| 88 | The breakdown of trust which they effect is graphically represented by Shakespeare , first by the way in which the king 's sons , fleeing the country , are suspected to have been his killers ; second , in the scene where Macduff , who has finally fled Scotland ( his wife and children are murdered by Macbeth in his absence ) , is confronted and tested by Malcolm . |
| 89 | This , however , is surely not a matter for grave concern ( except of course to ardent devotees ) since the precise metaphysical status of the magic shibboleth is of much less interest than the insights which it has inspired . |
| 90 | A sheet of ideas for you to try is enclosed . |