Example sentences of "[conj] [am/are] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provisions that make this £150 " discrepancy " potentially chargeable are : ( i ) s 19 TA 1988 , the Schedule E income tax charging provision ; and ( ii ) s 162 TA 1988 , which can apply the " notional loan " provisions of s160 to a situation where Newco acquires shares in Target and persons " connected " with Newco , namely management , are or have been employed by Target and/or are about to be employed by Newco , and the Target shares are acquired at an under-value in pursuance of a right or opportunity available by reason of management 's employment . |
| 2 | We shall make the widening of the Community a priority , and shall advocate speedy admission for Austria , Sweden , Finland and Cyprus , whose membership applications have been or are about to be lodged . |
| 3 | While most supermarket chains in Europe have been ( or are about to be ) battered by recession , discounters like Germany 's Aldi and Denmark 's Netto are flourishing . |
| 4 | And all the corridors , stairways , and walls in other areas , have either been re-painted or are about to be . |
| 5 | The tenant should consider its deletion , particularly where the premises form part of a shopping centre and the other units have already been constructed or are about to be so . |
| 6 | How about this gem : ‘ Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids which thou shalt have , shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy them bondmen and bondmaids . |
| 7 | erm the format for these is one of four lectures , in which we revise in the first lecture ideas that are round about sixth form level and then in two lectures following that we take the teacher through , very quickly , the kind of coverage that we give to the topic in the university . |
| 8 | And the programmes that are on during the day , but erm this sort of thing is slightly more important I feel . |
| 9 | It 's our job to bring you comprehensive performance results on PCs that are up for review , and we have to be even handed while we do it . |
| 10 | Digitalk Inc , Los Angeles is now shipping the 32-bit version of its object-oriented Smalltalk/V development environment for OS/2 2.0 , enabling users to create Smalltalk/V applications that are up to 100% faster and 50% smaller than 16-bit OS/2 applications : it can call both 16-bit and 32-bit Dynamic Link Libraries , adds a debugger with enhanced single-stepping capability , improved support for bit maps , double-byte character set characters in Smalltalk/V code , and support for OS/2 's common dialogue boxes ; it costs a swinging $1,000 . |
| 11 | I presume it 's seen from the wards that are up behind looking down onto this courtyard . |
| 12 | The decorator that are in at Peter 's at the moment erm they do everything . |
| 13 | My Lords I would like to speak amendments that are down in my name er I 've er got Amendments number seventeen and eighteen and numbers twenty-two er and number a hundred and twenty-five . |
| 14 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 15 | Nowadays , most excavations are conducted on sites that are about to be destroyed , and so when the excavation is finished , the site is left to its fate . |
| 16 | Cutting the price of essentials will do far more to help the people who are struggling than any number of £100 reductions on clothes that are out of reach for most of us . |
| 17 | Avoid slang , jargon and colloquial expressions that might be perfectly acceptable in speech but that are out of place in an academic essay . |
| 18 | Look for things that are out of place . |
| 19 | Those that are out of phase destroy each other and can not be detected ( see figure 3.16 ) . |
| 20 | That might be the simplest way and if you add that to the seventy two that are out of commission short term beds , holiday beds , which you 've got to keep empty anyway . |
| 21 | back down the road … and further Solar Flair is still going … they 've cracked it at last … and are up to forty five miles an hour … next stop is Adelaide the city that closes its streets to grand prix cars … today … the roads are open and the crowds out to welcome them in … |
| 22 | Oxford trail by a goal and are up against it … while on Thursday its Witney 's big night … a big match to mark the opening of their ground |
| 23 | The year is 1988 , and Wadsley Bridge buildings have received the attention of the local vandals and are about to be demolished . |
| 24 | The winner is the team in which all the members have run with the spoon and are back to their places . |
| 25 | United have just about shaken off the flu bug and are back to more or less full strength . |
| 26 | The couple emigrated in 1987 and are back on holiday to see friends and relatives . |
| 27 | Many based on tried and trusted therapies heal the mind as well as the body and are back in fashion in a big way . |
| 28 | Only when you have unwound somewhat and are back in balance are you able to progress to a more powerful strategy that involves insight , persistence or talking to the headteacher . |
| 29 | Then they tear up their L-plates and are out on their own . |