Example sentences of "[noun sg] are [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stunt pilot and a photographer are hoping to make a blockbuster film to rival Indiana Jones . |
| 2 | The club 's new owners , Biomass are said to want a change in management style . |
| 3 | Disorders of colonic motility are thought to play a part in several diseases , especially the irritable bowel syndrome , and also ulcerative colitis , diverticular disease , and constipation . |
| 4 | The indicators which vary most with income are used to create a summary index of standard of living , using principal component analysis for specific household types and for all household types . |
| 5 | I do not deal with the equally hard problem of the patient who is admitted unconscious to hospital after a suicide attempt , where the doctrines of implied consent or necessity are used to justify a doctor in treating him . |
| 6 | Five vertical strikes of the print-head are needed to produce a character ; each strike uses up to eight of the nine available pins . |
| 7 | THE ORB are planning to re-record a cover of the progressive rock classic ‘ Silver Machine ’ with original artists Hawkwind ! |
| 8 | Benefits from lower raw material prices and the falling pound are expected to provide a boost on top of the move into higher-margin chemical materials in the United States . |
| 9 | Benefits from lower raw material prices and the falling pound are expected to provide a boost on top of the move into higher-margin chemical materials in the United States . |
| 10 | Ideologies of management are needed to buttress a system of inequalities in organizations and the major social injustice of the ‘ daily routine of men and women wasting their lives and their intellects to gain their livelihoods ’ ( Salaman 1980b , p. 1 ) . |
| 11 | Women interested in being their own boss are invited to attend a seminar in Women 's Skills offices , Sun Alliance House , from 9.30am to 3.30pm tomorrow . |
| 12 | Liverpool City Council are planning to start a tournament in the winter which could be the first step of a journey up the British rankings right up to a match against number one players Jeremy Bates and Joe Durie . |
| 13 | Town are forced to make a change . |
| 14 | Water alert : About 200,000 people in an area west of Southampton are being advised to continue boiling their drinking water as mains are flushed to clear a parasite which causes stomach upsets . |
| 15 | NOTTINGHAM Forest are starting to contemplate a future without Brian Clough . |
| 16 | The group are hoping to produce a publication , organise workshops , courses and so on and plans to become involved in schools and colleges . |
| 17 | I suspect that the mulberry sauce — we are not told for what manner of meat it was intended — may have originated somewhere in Asia Minor and was perhaps brought to Italy after the Venetian conquest of Constantinople in 1204 A.D. It could equally have come via Persia or Afghanistan where , as in Turkey , the berries of the white or silk mulberry are dried to provide a supply for the winter . |
| 18 | Suppose that you and another person are going to spend a weekend in Pwllheli , about 100 miles from Bishop 's Castle . |
| 19 | Thus , by virtue of institutional demands , occupational conventions and perceived political legitimacy , the media as a whole are predisposed to adopt a style of coverage which will pay scant regard to analysis of the causes of protest or the grievances of protesters . |
| 20 | For the purposes of n.m.r. measurements three consecutive monomer units in a chain are considered to define a configuration and called a triad . |
| 21 | Supporters of the National Eczema Society are hoping to start a branch in Darlington . |
| 22 | The Society are planning to open a museum in the near future . |
| 23 | Physically , two photons with frequency are scattered to form a pair of photons at , so the process is termed four-wave mixing . |
| 24 | DETECTIVES hunting a robber who sprayed a builder and his wife with CS gas are trying to trace a man seen in the area just before the raid . |
| 25 | Heads and staff in their turn are having to acquire a skill new to many of them : the skill of working with their governors . |
| 26 | Some of the 30 nurses working on the two long stay geriatric wards at Darlington 's Greenbank Hospital are hoping to avert a management decision to make them wear their own clothes . |
| 27 | Others will be hostile and critical ; whilst those readers who have bargained in the bazaars of North Africa or the East will have recognised that the customer and the shopkeeper are expected to play a negotiating game , jousting with each other until there is agreement and mutual respect . |
| 28 | The digits of the number are computed using a loop containing the standard algorithm |
| 29 | MEMBERS of the public are invited to attend a celebration gala at Bowring Park , Liverpool , on June 26 . |
| 30 | The members of the last age-group are assumed to have a mortality rate of 100% . |