Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bolton Health Authority , which says it learned only on Friday night that the doctor was an AIDS victim , is writing to all 260 patients he treated at the hospital and will make sure they are all contacted and offered counselling and tests if required . |
| 2 | Production is declining for all three grapes and the vineyards are gradually being replanted with one of the three classic varieties . |
| 3 | The field has already produced 650,000 barrels of oil and production is continuing at some 5,000 barrels a day — an excellent result , says Central Region production manager Mike Sigsworth . |
| 4 | So 34-year-old Madonna , who also owns a £1.5 million Hollywood mansion , luxury New York pad and £1 million cabin cruiser , is chucking in another million dollars for a bit of decorating . |
| 5 | There we are , there 's the Buddha up , up here on my left there it is showing for five hundred pounds at five hundred pounds I 'm offered thank you , five hundred is bid , and fifty , six hundred and fifty seven hundred and fifty eight hundred at eight hundred pounds , all done at eight hundred pounds , I 'm selling for eight hundred , any further bids at eight hundred pounds ? |
| 6 | What is striking about these two books is the sense they convey — little less unusual now than when they were written — of a strong and independent black community , in which people found their own way rather than having it mapped out for them by white expectations . |