Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 2 | He could have destroyed Tottenham except for their world class goalie who is shaping up for a good World Cup eh Halvard ? |
| 3 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 4 | It is the variance , not the midspread , which is broken down into a fitted ( ‘ explained ’ ) and residual ( ‘ unexplained ’ ) component . |
| 5 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 6 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 7 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 8 | Cop the name of the man ( above ) who is stepping down from a top job . |
| 9 | Textured bob-length hair with full fringe is smoothed out into a chic wrap as an alternative . |
| 10 | Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd , based in Bracknell , Berkshire is branching out into a new niche printing market with its 2140 MICR — hailed as the world 's fastest personalised Magnetic Ink Character Recognition printing system . |
| 11 | However , on Saturday , October 10 , it is pencilled in for a proposed Newcastle to Maryport via Leeds , Skipton and Workington special , returning to Bradford Forster Square . |
| 12 | His leg looks like it 's broke — it 's sticking out at a funny angle . |
| 13 | It is tricked out with a handsome jacket and contains the standard acknowledgements , including the author 's thanks to the Universe for her participation in Existence . |
| 14 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 15 | For the rest of the week it is given over to a different selection : good second-hand clothes , useful but redundant household articles , outgrown children 's toys plus almost anything that someone no longer needs and someone else might use . |
| 16 | As is pointed out in a robust response from Ernst & Young , the code is full of the desired qualitative attributes of boards and directors , but it is short on objective operational criteria . |
| 17 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 18 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 19 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 20 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 21 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 22 | From the simplest beginnings the reader is carried along on a step-by-step journey to adventures in ‘ Harmonic landscaping ’ and a variety of textures . |
| 23 | A further point is that there is no need to rely on the right unless the decompilation is carried out to a substantial part of the original program ( there is no infringement to excuse otherwise ) . |
| 24 | Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome . |
| 25 | Spraying is carried out with a coarse spray at low pressure . |
| 26 | If a member can not carry out work for which a deposit has been paid , the fund will either ensure the work is carried out at a fair price less the deposit or refund the deposit . |
| 27 | I usually have some sympathy for a player who is dismissed simply for being over-aggressive , but I draw the line when this aggro is carried out on a fellow team mate . |
| 28 | Where a sanitiser can have advantages is where a particular cleaning task is carried out on a repetitive basis as for example the daily cleaning of a retail soft ice cream dispenser . |
| 29 | Lichen research is carried out on a world-wide collection which is particularly good on European crustose lichens . |
| 30 | Personal selling is a very expensive activity to maintain , and it may be best suited to relatively concentrated markets , such as in the UK for ceramics or steel manufacture , or those in which buying is carried out on a centralised basis . |