Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems pretty strong minded , so Im pretty sure he s got definate ideas of how hed like a team to play etc . |
| 2 | Jones is probably the best choice … ok so he s had disciplinary problems recently — this is no time to start making petty examples of players . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Oxford University is helping young mothers scale the academic heights by opening its first nursery . |
| 5 | To hasten this process , the Japanese government is helping private industry through its Computer Basic Technology Research Association . |
| 6 | A progressive inner-city school is helping black South African children to overcome their under-developed state education system . |
| 7 | New technology is helping deaf-blind people to communicate with others to a degree unimaginable even 10 years ago . |
| 8 | Explaining the move , IBCA said that the banks ' underlying operating profits were on a sharply improving trend which is helping offset asset quality problems . |
| 9 | MARKETING : How the IDB is helping local companies discover new outlets for their exports . |
| 10 | HOW THE IDB IS HELPING LOCAL COMPANIES TO DEVELOP THEIR EXPORT POTENTIAL |
| 11 | This is an impressive performance which provides a clear demonstration that through the provision of a comprehensive and carefully targeted range of marketing support schemes , the IDB is helping local companies of all sizes to develop their international competitiveness , expand their exporting capability and market share and win significant new international business , thereby creating growth and sustained and stable employment . |
| 12 | In another move to improve services for parents , principal child protection officer Evelyn Joseph is helping local voluntary organisations set up an advocacy project for black parents who come into contact with the child protection team . |
| 13 | In this article we take a look at how a commitment to Total Quality Management is helping Noble Metals at Royston to grow in what continues to be a depressed marketplace … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Excretion of administered interleukin-2 and difficulties is maintaining adequate fluid and electrolyte balance are the most common clinically severe toxicities encountered . |
| 16 | If you think you are eating too much salt , the first thing to do is to go easy on the amount you sprinkle on food and use in cooking . |
| 17 | To fail in marriage nowadays is to go bankrupt in a business of life in which everyone engages and in which the large majority at least appear to be successful . |
| 18 | The more there is to go wrong , of course . |
| 19 | They claim that the West is using environmental arguments as a foil for reducing their dependence on oil and developing alternative energy sources . |
| 20 | Yet software house Microsoft recently caused quite a stir in computer circles by announcing that it is using real people , working for real companies , to test its software products . |
| 21 | A glossary of terms and acronyms used can be very helpful not only to the reader but also to the writer who is forced to consider carefully how he is using various technical terms . |
| 22 | Because one is using Euclidean space-times , in which the time direction is on the same footing as directions in space , it is possible for space-time to be finite in extent and yet to have no singularities that formed a boundary or edge . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Therefore , another essential quality in effective neighbourhood policing is using experienced officers who have familiarity on the beat . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At Oxford University , Dr Noel Gale , is using inorganic mass spectrometry to establish a copper trading route from 3000 BC to 1000 BC . |
| 27 | So and I would extend the same argument to abortion and I would say erm wh what happens in abortion admittedly erm an artificial abortion mean means that presumably a spontaneous abortion has has n't happened , but a modern woman is using extra means that she has er at her disposal , probably to deal with extra problems which evolution originally could not foresee and ultimately her self-interest might be just as well served by having er induced the abortion ultimately as it would by erm by not having but I mean this is just my personal view , and I do n't |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The aim is to find how far the reader is using positive strategies , exemplified by certain types of miscue . |
| 30 | ( In effect , such treatment is using bright light as a time-cue to adjust the body clock appropriately . ) |