Example sentences of "is [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many regions , industry is permitted to connect up to the domestic sewage system to discharge its toxic waste . |
| 2 | The officers are backed up by four police cars whose job is to try to keep up with the train on nearby roads and help catch the faster of the trespassers fleeing from their colleagues on the trackside . |
| 3 | The company is also to change its name from Merrydown Wine to Merrydown plc and is applying to move up from the USM to the main market in January . |
| 4 | A second raffle is expected to notch up about the same total . |
| 5 | The Portadown midfielder is expected to link up with the Glens following agreement on a fee between managers Ronnie McFall and Robert Strain . |
| 6 | IBM Corp is still not ready with a full scale disk array for its mainframes , but next week , the company is expected to come out with the new 3390-9 disk drives , offering three times the capacity of the 3390-3 — could be as much as 60Gb on the As , 100Gb on the Bs ( CI No 2,046 ) — but they will be somewhat slower than the existing ones : a new 3990 controller that will be able to talk to disks that do not exist yet is expected to follow later , probably in the autumn . |
| 7 | NEW Environment Minister John Gummer is expected to speak out against the ordination of women priests when he visits Cheshire this month . |
| 8 | Activity time-out : the child is simply barred from joining in an enjoyable activity , but still allowed to observe it — for example , having disrupted a board game , she is made to sit out of the game . |
| 9 | Where a decision is made to remit back to the licensing board , the interlocutor should include any specification or modification required under subs . |
| 10 | On page 10 , the report stated : ‘ Two days after the downing of Pan Am 103 , the Iranian embassy in Beirut receives a phone call from the Interior Ministry in Teheran , intercepted , during which the ambassador is told to hand over to the PFLP — GC the remaining funds , size and scope not specified , and is being congratulated for the ‘ successful operation ’ . ’ |
| 11 | Weather for the Fox F M area : After some early evening sunshine , the night will start dry ; cloud and some showery rain is going to spread in from the south er to parts of the region by dawn . |
| 12 | We 're just at the beginning of it and this is going to go on till the end of April or May now , it 'll be like this . |
| 13 | ‘ so you really think , ’ she said , ‘ that that poor little chap is going to zoom in from the clouds and wipe us all out ? ’ |
| 14 | Erm I think this whole issue is going to boil down to the your assumptions on migration . |
| 15 | I think perhaps I 'd put that another way , but I do think there 's a definite sense in which change is going to come up through the colleges . |
| 16 | Ah erm well , Chairman , I I think that this is something that 's going to cut , as far as Hambledon 's got concerns , is going to come up in the erm in the next debate , certainly , erm , the erm , the issue of erm whether policy should be expressed in terms of principle and criteria , or erm area and a district as being a dilemma erm to Hambledon , erm , it feels it 's erm erm not being able to support the policy as defined , because ultimately the Council would object to a new settlement in Hambledon . |
| 17 | In an area with around 250 cm of rain a year , it seems clear that if the hillsides are not replanted then silt is going to rush down into the river , through the sluice gates of the dam and into the new land , where irrigation canals might become seriously clogged up , and the fertility of the soil lowered . |
| 18 | Other women in the narrative may not be friends , but are always constructed as rivals for male attention : ‘ She does not consider herself a beauty and this element is used to play off against the beauty of the other woman ( women ) … . ’ |
| 19 | But Tommy Johnson is aiming to step back on the goal trail . |
| 20 | A similar directive covering public works contracts over £3.5 million is scheduled to come in at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 21 | Good news for teachers and pupils alike , information is beginning to trickle through about the new Rock School Ltd graded examinations for guitar , drums and bass . |
| 22 | There are signs that latent defects insurance , such as that recommended in the BUILD report , is beginning to take off in the insurance market . |
| 23 | He is beginning to move on from the subjects which have dominated the last couple of years , feeling that he has gleaned all the experience he can from them . |
| 24 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 25 | There are also early signs that the increased cost of imports resulting from the devaluation of sterling last September is beginning to work through to the shops . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a tragedy if law and order is beginning to break down in the north of Somalia , in what is , after all , the old British Somaliland and is now known to local people as Somaliland ? |
| 27 | For six months Pakistan 's governments have been preoccupied with intrigue , and it may be that their carefree attitude to running the country is beginning to show up in the figures . |
| 28 | Notice is set to go up in the local regsistrar 's office on Thursday , just 48 hours before they walk down the aisle . |
| 29 | Terry Venables has been keen on the 23-year-old for months and armed with over £2million from the Stewart sale , is set to move in on the £1.2m-rated player . |
| 30 | One of the strongest domestic fields for many years — including three previous winner of the race — is set to line up for the London Marathon on April 12 . |