Example sentences of "and is [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 2 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 3 | Now she 's one of the country 's top experts on Aerodynamics , Fluid Mechanics and Aircraft Propulsion , won the Plessey prize for Women in Engineering two years ago and is determined to get more women in engineering . |
| 4 | The Khmer Rouge has infiltrated the towns , and is said to have secret sympathisers at very high levels in the Phnom Penh government . |
| 5 | He was also educated at Harvard and Sussex Universities and is said to have more diplomas than a university vice chancellor . |
| 6 | The NRA is pumping groundwater into the River Itchen in Hampshire to keep up its flow and is trying to save three streams , the Tong , the Little Stour and the Dour from going dry this summer . |
| 7 | The CNX 600 is based on a second-generation RISC-based multiprocessor architecture , and is claimed to offer 100,000 packets per second performance . |
| 8 | This record should be made available to the suspect on request and is designed to facilitate any complaints of unjustifiable action by the police . |
| 9 | The scheme has been sponsored by the Nat West Bank and is designed to encourage agricultural colleges , in co-operation with others , to use their resources in creating and running large-scale quality projects in the countryside for the benefit of the rural community . |
| 10 | The River Twyver had by then been culverted for much of its length and is shown making occasional appearances near the Cathedral and St Mary De Lode , before emptying into the Dockham Ditch , and hence to the Severn . |
| 11 | US President Bill Clinton has dismissed the referendum as a ploy to buy time , and is expected to press reluctant Europeans for military action against Bosnia 's Serbs . |
| 12 | The European Remote Sensing Satellite , ERS-1 , cost £500 million and is expected to spend three years observing the Earth from space . |
| 13 | The Argus will leave with the helicopters on board next week and is expected to take seven days to reach the Croatian port of Split . |
| 14 | Well 204/20–1 was spudded by the drilling rig Ocean Valiant on September 14 and is expected to take 35 days . |
| 15 | The first European Design Automation Conference is scheduled for 7–10 Spetember at Hamburg 's Congress Center and is expected to attract 5,000 visitors : among those exhibiting are DEC , Harris , Sun , Cadence , Fujitsu and i-Logix . |
| 16 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S annual ten kilometre road race will almost certainly be an event on its own this year and is expected to attract 700 runners . |