Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fan club is growing all the time . |
| 2 | The Department is meeting all the commitments that we made in the citizens charter White Paper . |
| 3 | In other words , although the rule is broken all the time , it is broken deliberately for particular effects , which we would not perceive if the rule did not have some psychological reality . |
| 4 | The third is to recognise that the labour force is changing all the time and therefore different patterns of working can be gradually introduced . |
| 5 | ‘ By televising it we are showing that the fight against crime is continuing all the time . ’ |
| 6 | In the long run , this situation is bad for Britain 's industry , Maddock argues , because the technology gap is growing all the time between companies working on advanced defence electronics ( in which Britain leads the world ) and these struggling to retain some of the consumer electronics business . |
| 7 | Even the engraving and writing on the top on , on , on the top of the viewfinder here is nicely lit , you can see that it 's er er , the light is catching all the various edges of the engraving on the top . |
| 8 | In the beginnings of this second stanza , the poet is describing all the wonderful things the sun can do but then goes on to say that all these great wonders are completely forgotten when the sun can not even rejuvenate a man whose body is still warm and almost living . |
| 9 | After a week at the John Radcliffe Hospital her heart condition is showing all the signs of clearing up . |
| 10 | Under this head belongs every form of words by which , in speaking of a proposed measure of relief , an intimation is given that the time at which the proposal is made , whenever it may be , is too early for the purpose . |
| 11 | Erm , one other thing that I want to make about erm , the victims , erm , I am very much er , involved with erm , victim support Wiltshire , and one of the problems with victim support Wiltshire is their work is increasing all the time because the crime rate goes up , and every time there is more crime there is more victims , but the , the Government has not yet said that they will put the money up that they erm , that they er , the grant up that they give to the victim support . |
| 12 | Spelling is changing all the time , but slowly . |
| 13 | In view of the fact that the need to prepare a conveyance is reducing all the time , we will not go into this in detail in this text . |
| 14 | is talking about a specific period , at the moment I hope you realize that the committee is paying all the admin costs in the hope that we are getting the money from . |
| 15 | traffic warden is taking all the numbers . |
| 16 | In the confined environment of pre-school life the infant may have appeared to be progressing normally , and it may not be until an objective screening test is given that the sight problem is recognised . |
| 17 | The well-known supermarket teaser is to put all the sweeties up by the till , so you have to buy when you queue . |
| 18 | At 4,000 rpm the starter is switched off , its light checked out , the fuel cock is moved all the way forward and the engine stabilises at around 7,000 rpm and 400 ° C with the most unbelievably skull-splitting shrill piercing shriek . |
| 19 | Erm their their job is to make sure the rivers are clean . |
| 20 | the third member of the team is stable head girl Jackie Potts her job is to make sure the horse is in it 's finest fettle … |
| 21 | ‘ A deferred rate mortgage is one where the mortgage is charged all the time at the normal APR , but the consumer only pays at a reduced rate during the early years , ’ Mr Ellis explained . |
| 22 | I 've got a feeling that the Author is waiting all the time in that house in the woods for His own character to turn up . ’ |
| 23 | If markets fail to allocate resources efficiently because of the existence of externalities , then the first prerequisite for efficient government intervention is making good the market 's informational failures . |
| 24 | But like the use of every fossil fuel there is some price to be paid at the tail pipe in pollution ( although diesel is improving all the time ) . |
| 25 | His body is moving all the time . |
| 26 | And very quickly talking about it amongst the staff and er the other committees it would seem that it ought to have a far broader remit than just on the racing side so the first thing that I 'd like to emphasise is that this year of youth sailing is involves all the outgoing grass roots divisions of the R Y A , that is windsurfing , racing , training and the development divisions and the regions and the clubs and the recognized teaching establishments , so it really is an all encompassing er er scheme . |
| 27 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 28 | Jancey is talking all the time , like she 's coaxing a wounded dog . |
| 29 | ‘ The water is rising all the time and I would n't like to be around when it does overflow . |
| 30 | The stitching is done holding the needles with tweezers with the surgeons wearing special operating glasses . |