Example sentences of "[v-ing] is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Walking is good for everyone whatever their age or level of fitness , ’ said Frank Kelly , the Health Promotion Agency 's physical activity programme manager . |
| 2 | Walking is good for the soul , it 's . |
| 3 | They write , ‘ Deliberately prolonging a patient 's dying is unacceptable for any reason . ’ |
| 4 | Sunbathing is akin to smoking ; the immediate psychological effects outweigh the long-term risks . |
| 5 | Pressing is difficult with pile fabrics . |
| 6 | When the winding is to be excited both transistors ( are switched on , so the voltage applied to the phase winding is equal to the sun , of the two supply voltages ( VL + VH ) , the diode D2 being reverse-biased by VH.There is no series resistance to limit the current , which therefore starts to rise towards a value which is many times the rated winding current . |
| 7 | Each phase winding is excited by a separate drive circuit , which is controlled by a low-power " phase control signal " . |
| 8 | The information we are gaining is essential in developing more realistic models . ’ |
| 9 | So understanding is integral to faith , just as faith and understanding are both integral to experience . |
| 10 | Intravenous acetylcysteine remains the antidote of choice in Britain for patients presenting to medical care early enough ; oral methionine , another precursor of hepatic glutathione , is probably inferior to acetylcysteine as vomiting is common after overdose and metabolism to glutathione may be impaired by increasing liver dysfunction . |
| 11 | This more complex account of the process of levels of social formation interacting is reminiscent of Althusser 's theory of overdetermination . |
| 12 | The issue of population ageing is central to the consideration of current arrangements for the provision of care by formal services . |
| 13 | Ageing is full of mercies . |
| 14 | Because the more ideas you get , the better your problem solving is likely to be . |
| 15 | These are available in lightweight materials , so fixing is possible with panel adhesive , or the adhesive often supplied with the rose . |
| 16 | Interviewing is vulnerable to reactivity and bias effects as well as sampling difficulties . |
| 17 | As with repayment loans , the interest you are paying is eligible for tax relief ( see under MIRAS on page 25 ) . |
| 18 | certainly do n't think where we going is suitable for a puddy tat , hours and hours on end and not being allowed to go outside and even when we 're there , I say , we ca n't be running up and down them bloody staircases letting cats out , I could n't , I could n't bear the thought of it never going out . |
| 19 | Low kicks to the legs are not allowed , but apart from that and a few other rules , kickboxing is similar to the other martial art ring-sports . |
| 20 | Ignoring is counter-productive in such confrontations . |
| 21 | AS WE mentioned last month , applying the ‘ original ’ etch-resist directly to the copper foil prior to etching is fine for quicker one-off printed circuit boards ( p.c.b.s ) , but there is the drawback of actually have to destroy the etch-resist after etching , in order to reveal the copper tracks underneath . |
| 22 | A phenomenological exploration of topic-directional modes of experiencing is essential to a clarification of the structure of reference . |
| 23 | But we must be sure that what we are seeing is a true feeding roll and not just any surface activity , for bream do frequently appear at the surface when feeding is far from their thoughts . |
| 24 | Even in ideal cereal-growing country the sale of grain in the open market for milling or feeding is unlikely to be worthwhile for a smallholder who could not produce enough to compete on an adequate scale . |
| 25 | In short , the noise level in scanning is likely to be high . |
| 26 | Where the PC has no real expanded RAM , using EMM386.EXE to provide it for cacheing is wasteful of resources . |
| 27 | Sharing is rare in primates and the chimpanzee behaviour may indicate the sources of human mealtime ceremonials . |
| 28 | Sharing is characteristic of a certain kind of non-competitive egalitarianism because it eliminates the possibility of debt ( cf. |
| 29 | The amount of slashing is optional for the time being . |
| 30 | Factoring is useful in that it relieves a company of the administrative burden of collecting book debt although it can be expensive . |