Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , it is all too easy to conclude that if one 's message is misunderstood , the receiver is at fault ; and if the other person 's attempt to communicate is not understood , then the other person 's mode of expression is deficient in some way . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of people think blindness must be worse than deafness but not being able to communicate is really maddening . ’ |
| 3 | And in the general fever for branding schemes OSF is also introducing its own programme for vendors to badge their products ‘ OSF certified ’ . |
| 4 | They boss is just gon na keep sending messages until one finally gets through . |
| 5 | Even dowsing is obliquely referred to in the official reports as ‘ probing with metal rods ’ ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cooling is usually done by passing the gas through pipes . |
| 9 | The specific question that Aspect , together with jean Dalibard and Gérard Roger , has attacked is commonly known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox , the essence of which runs as follows . |
| 10 | ADDS is also previewing a 3270/X programme that provides an X-Window migration path for IBM 3270 terminal users moving to NCR 's System 3000 Unix line . |
| 11 | For example , when you use a flight simulator , the map of the world over which you fly is often stored as a separate data file . |
| 12 | Sometimes one fact or figure that you may need is not defined : you are expected to know it . |
| 13 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 14 | But that was easy : to defer is not to forgo . |
| 15 | The interest earned is normally paid at the end of the period to the respective parties in proportion to the amount of the retention received by them . |
| 16 | Preferably targets should be set for individuals where the bonus earned is directly related to personal effort . |
| 17 | If the lumps are tumours , these are rarely infectious , and the reason why they appear is poorly understood . |
| 18 | What matters is not to rethink the Bank 's role , but to make the Bank as good as possible at the job it already has . |
| 19 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 20 | What I do know 's probably distorted , as you told me once in London . |
| 21 | If some item claimed is not covered under the Marine Policy it should be borne in mind that a Home Policy could provide cover — this is especially important if the Corporation holds the Home Policy as well as the Marine Policy . |
| 22 | Simple : the atomic reaction you expect is n't taking place , the beam with which you are bombarding the particles is on the wrong wavelength . |
| 23 | What I want to know is where has she gone ? |
| 24 | He says they may be able to exchange their tickets but what he wants to know is where has all the money gone ? |
| 25 | What we want to know is how to use that assertiveness in situations where we do n't know the rules . ’ |
| 26 | What I want to know is how do they do it ? |
| 27 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |
| 28 | Steaming is not restricted to tube trains : it happens on buses , in shops and even department stores where large items are stolen en masse in broad daylight . |
| 29 | Even if this number could be regarded as reasonably constant throughout the year , it is clear that the group of individuals exposed to the risk of dying is constantly changing . |
| 30 | One of the first things an infant elephant has to discover is how to use its trunk . |