Example sentences of "[is] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's awa' jist noo , but he 's always hame fir Christmas . |
| 2 | Among American artists , Basquiat is down 50% from his 1990 peak though a mainstream work now averaging £22,000 is still 200% ahead of the 1985 level . |
| 3 | CompuAdd Computer Corp , Austin , Texas cut prices across its product line by as much as 23% : the EISA-based CompuAdd 466EDX2 tower unit now costs $3,800 , and the CompuAdd 433DX configured in a desktop power chassis is now $2,600 ; the CompuAdd 466DX2 configured in a desktop power chassis is down 23% at $3,000 . |
| 4 | Still no takers for this ‘ mirror to all you wish to remember ’ and now it is down £1.95 , or was there a 95p tag lurking in the corner of the flyleaf ? |
| 5 | Overtime pay is down 15% from its peak two years ago ; summer bonuses are expected to fall 1.6% this year , the largest drop on record . |
| 6 | The Sparcstation ELC entry-level monochrome workstation is down 20% at $4,000 — £3,000 — and the 16″ IPX is off 26% at $10,000 , the 19″ is off 18.5% at $11,000 . |
| 7 | He commented : ‘ Our revenue is down £200,000 this year because there is no league sponsorship money and no income from BSkyB . |
| 8 | Aprlow , Buckinghamshire-based SynOptics Communications UK Ltd has cut the price of its LattisNet family of FDDI intelligent hubs : the list price of the Model 2912A Workgroup Hub has been reduced 36% to £9,950 and the FDDI Fibre Optic Host module is down 27% to £5,535 ; the FDDI Network Management Module now costs £9,950 , a 33% reduction . |
| 9 | Looking at telecommunications alone , it gets worse still : the production figure is down 27% and the market figure down 30% ; however , exports were up 19% here . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's up West . |
| 11 | Sotheby 's battling , Christie 's up 5% |
| 12 | And the following 15 runners-up , who will each receive a Hamer T-shirt and ‘ Time 's Up CD ’ , did the same : Dale Bowen , Robert J Tuck , Damian Patrick Sullivan , AJ Rowles , Robert Walker , Robert Sturman , Donald Young , Craig Enderby , Colin Davis , Scott Reardon , Mick Stephens , Robert Savidge , Steve Parter , D Sumnner and Marc Arundale . |
| 13 | And the following 15 runners-up , who will each receive a Hamer T-shirt and ‘ Time 's Up CD ’ , did the same : Dale Bowen , Robert J Tuck , Damian Patrick Sullivan , AJ Rowles , Robert Walker , Robert Sturman , Donald Young , Craig Enderby , Colin Davis , Scott Reardon , Mick Stephens , Robert Savidge , Steve Parter , D Sumnner and Marc Arundale . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's up north in the mountains , ’ his mother told him . |
| 15 | Mine 's up north with a friend . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Now my job 's up north , or I would n't be on this train now . |
| 17 | Then Maggie said , ‘ Did yer know Mrs Buckley 's balloon 's up agen ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ What 's up mum ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ What 's up mate ? ’ |
| 20 | The successful screenwriting team of Robert Benton and David Newman ( Bonnie and Clyde , What 's Up Doc ? ) did a treatment that was discarded by Schaffner . |
| 21 | YVETTE Fielding , above , who presents ITV 's Saturday morning children 's show What 's Up Doc ? , is about to achieve her great ambition to be in pantomime . |
| 22 | Before joining What 's Up Doc ? |
| 23 | Yvette , 23 , was pulled round a jousting arena at Lamberhurst , Kent , wrapped in a sack while filming ITV 's new show , What 's Up Doc ? |
| 24 | What 's up Doc ? |
| 25 | What 's up doc ? |
| 26 | One old chap said , ‘ What 's up lad , tha ’ looks as if tha 's seen a ghost ! ’ |
| 27 | The Samara 1300SL 3 door is up £154 to £1549 and the Niva 4wd now costs £7049 . |
| 28 | Everything is up north . |
| 29 | Figures released yesterday for the first four months of the year show total crime in the county is up 12pc on this time last year , with the detection rate down by 3pc . |
| 30 | BR says annual revenue on the TransPennine service is up 120pc since 1986 and passengers by 60pc or nearly 7pc a year . |