Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisers of last weekend 's New Age festival in the Forest of Dean are facing prosecution for noise nuisance . |
| 2 | Multi-volume catalogues prepared by the Pushkin Museum and Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow are gathering dust with the publishers without any prospect of this situation changing . |
| 3 | Richard Ellis are handling Minster Court on behalf of the Prudential . |
| 4 | The subtle difference is tha that Swindon are going function by function and getting er five certificates . |
| 5 | When faced with proposals which offer ‘ a reorientation of communications cutting across traditional routes and boundaries ’ , which in English means building roads over people 's houses , and that routes for these roads are represented by a squiggle from a felt tip pen , which then is incorporated as the project logo , we must begin to wonder if the DED and DOE are poking fun at the communities likely to suffer . |
| 6 | The National Rivers Authority is busy rebuilding a major weir at Tewkesbury , and another 7 weirs on the stretch of the Avon to Evesham are awaiting restoration with help from the trust . |
| 7 | PRS are offering Guitarist readers some peace of mind from such potential turmoil in the form of 5 life memberships . |
| 8 | COLERAINE are facing fan pressure to block any move by highly-rated keeper Davy O'Hare to another Irish League club . |
| 9 | Large-scale investments in Scotland and Indonesia are approaching completion . |
| 10 | Is the Secretary of State aware that the management of the Albacom factory in Dundee are taking advantage of the circumstances of mass unemployment by sacking more than 100 members of the work force for the crime of taking industrial action , within the terms of the Government 's employment laws ? |
| 11 | Oil palm growers in the Malaysian state of Sabah are taking advantage of a loophole in conservation law to threaten the habitat of proboscis monkeys . |
| 12 | Northwest of Hamburg , in the small port of Emden , two Type 1700 diesel submarines made by Thyssen-Nordseewerke are nearing completion for Argentina . |
| 13 | THE British Red Cross in Powys are seeking grant aid from Powys County Council to provide a holiday for 12 physically and mentally handicapped children at a total cost of £1,505 . |
| 14 | Many LEAs are providing training and support which should ‘ sharpen ’ the work of schools in identification , implementation , monitoring and evaluation of priorities . |
| 15 | PETER Hunter , Damien Sarsfield and John Smethurst are seeking election to the National Executive Council of the National and Local Government 's Officers ' Association on a platform of total opposition to the union 's present disgraceful policy on abortion . |
| 16 | Middle-income countries such as India and the Philippines were allowed to draw from a special subsidy account offering loans at nominal interest rates of 0.5 per cent , while hard-hit , low-income countries such as Sri Lanka and Pakistan were offered assistance from the existing compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) . |
| 17 | One of the earliest was the Reverend Edward Duke who , in the 1840s , found that several prehistoric sites , including Avebury , Silbury Hill and Stonehenge were aligned north-south with each other . |
| 18 | Training following appointment is also evidently not universal , for Goacher et al ( 1988 ) recorded that only 28 per cent of LEAs were offering training to their assistants in order to implement the 1981 Education Act . |
| 19 | I was saying , oh yeah erm Shrimpy like , we , me and Scott were playing snooker and I , I came in to see if like , either of you , anyone else wanted to play doubles and like , Swimp , Shrimpy was just sat by himself in the middle of the floor , cross-legged just sat there like a little pixie or something ! |
| 20 | She found herself wondering idly whether , if she and Johnny were to make love now , here beneath the apple tree , Ben would be able to see them from his garden , or Mrs Draper from her bedroom window . |
| 21 | On Sept. 9 Gamsakhurdia announced the formation of a republican Defence Ministry ( Dzhoni Pirtskhalaishvili being named Minister of Defence on Sept. 19 ) , and ordered rebel elements of the Georgian National Guard to return to barracks . |
| 22 | The USD deputies boycotted the vote , in which Snezhana Botusharova of the UDF and Kadir Dzhalil Kadir of the MRF were elected deputy speakers . |
| 23 | Mitchum , Ford and Lila were given bail at a thousand dollars each and a hearing was scheduled for the following week . |
| 24 | Now if either Phelan or Irwin were to loose form or get injured Kelly would play . |
| 25 | During the Bishopric of John of Bradfield 1278–1283 , we find John Usher of the parish of Snodland being granted land in Halling and Holborough . |
| 26 | When Ian Thomson and the current editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Devereux were doing fieldwork for their book The Ley Hunter 's Companion , they visited the crypt and found that the needle of their compass maintained a strange rhythmic ‘ jigging ’ motion . |
| 27 | This factory at Wollaston in Northamptonshire is working flat out , making Doc Martens exclusively for the export market . |
| 28 | CISCO is seeking division of the Official List into segments with categories of companies set up according to their market capitalisation . |
| 29 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is taking advantage of India 's relaxation of its foreign investment rules to up its stake in PSI Data Systems Pvt Ltd to 51% from 40% . |
| 30 | Telefonica de Espana SA is discussing creation of a consortium with US telephone companies to buy a 35% stake in Greek phone company Organisacion Telefonica Elenica SA , OTE ; it sees the stake costing $1,000m . |