Example sentences of "[is] [adv prt] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE fight is on to include an old power station site within a country park . |
| 2 | KEVIN SEWELL , coach to Jets , is out to stake a unique claim at this Sunday 's Royal Bank Scottish Cup finals at Meadowbank . |
| 3 | No need to lick — just bend , peel and stick … the Royal Mail 's out to educate a new generation of stamp users . |
| 4 | Set up by one of Britain 's top tennis players , Sarah Loosemore , it 's out to redress a sporting imbalance . |
| 5 | An ardent Royalist hopes she 's about to realise a lifelong ambition by meeting the Queen . |
| 6 | It 's about to launch a Hollywood-style marketing campaign costing millions of pounds . |
| 7 | Mr Gluckstern is about to manage a new subsidiary , Zurich Reinsurance Centre . |
| 8 | THE DEPARTMENT of Industry ( DoI ) is about to appoint a new recruit to knit together Britain 's activities in satellite mapping . |
| 9 | DAVID Mellor , who has made a variety of television and radio appearances since his resignation as Minister for Fun , is about to take a major step in his broadcasting career . |
| 10 | Clearly the health authority does not argue that because it is about to honour a similar referral to the same unit in Birmingham . |
| 11 | An example of market information could be where there is advance knowledge that a brokerage firm is about to publish a favourable research report about a company . |
| 12 | ‘ At the climax of the film one of the gangsters is about to shoot a young girl member of the community in the presence of the community 's elder . |
| 13 | BUDDY Holly fan Glen Tweedie is about to realise a lifelong ambition . |
| 14 | A TOWN which has one of the highest unemployment levels in Wales is about to lose a vital unit which handles income support claims . |
| 15 | Rod Wallace is about to sign a new contract that will run to the end of 97/98 . |
| 16 | Four patients have developed recurrent stones , one of whom has had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy , a second who is about to have a laparoscopic procedure , and two who are free of symptoms . |
| 17 | The University is about to introduce a general policy for headships in all departments . |
| 18 | The Select Committee on Agriculture , of which I am a member , is about to launch a major inquiry into Britain 's food trade gap , which is estimated to be about £6 billion . |
| 19 | SCOTVEC is about to launch a new type of qualification — general Scottish Vocational Qualifications . |
| 20 | The scenario is : Your council is about to launch a full-scale project aimed at recycling their extent range of materials including glass , paper , plastic , metals and textiles . |
| 21 | However , the music entrepreneur , who is sitting on a near 50% stake worth £10m , is about to make a fresh foray into the records business . |
| 22 | UNIT GROUP , which obtained the distinction of being the first company to float on the Third Market , is about to make an important diversification into the engineering sector . |
| 23 | The Act also empowers the police to set up roadblocks to discover whether vehicles contain anyone who has witnessed , committed or is about to commit a serious crime . |
| 24 | His business , born last June with $75 000 from a venture capitalist , has been valued at $1 million and is about to market a three-dimensional video golf game which simulates a championship course in California . |
| 25 | The most immediate ponderer is Bill Clinton , who is about to offer a grudging renewal for a further year of China 's ‘ most favoured nation ’ trading status with America — jargon which means simply that China is treated as well , or badly , as most other countries . |
| 26 | A TELEVISION drive to persuade Britain 's seven million schoolkids to swap their lunch boxes for school dinners is about to become a real choker . |
| 27 | The channel tunnel is about to become a major part of the United Kingdom infrastructure . |
| 28 | Muller , however , is surprised to find himself in the company of players he once idolised , and he has yet to recognise that he is about to become a similar figure . |
| 29 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 30 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |