Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gorbachev is resisting centrifugal pressure , but leaving the door open for future change in party 's status . |
| 2 | Development for third party environments such as Mentor Graphics , Cadence Design Systems , Viewlogic Systems , Logical Devices and OrCAD is expected this summer . |
| 3 | Mrs Falconer is facing compulsory redundancy and has been told that she could stay on the staff if she accepts demotion to ordinary lecturer — a post already held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 4 | Although he has no intention of exposing his limitations at any of the Grand Slam tournaments this year , Borg is taking wild-card entries into Monte Carlo and Munich as well as playing in several 35-and-over events . |
| 5 | He believes Mr Mitterrand is using Tory disarray over the treaty to cover up his own reluctance to reach a Gatt world trade deal . |
| 6 | In fact the select committee report identified Liverpool Bay as a prime example of a sour gas project , and therefore LASMO is encouraged that approval will be granted to allow this development to proceed . |
| 7 | New ventures : LASMO is investigating new venture possibilities in a number of countries where the Company already has a presence , as well as countries in which LASMO is not presently represented , included the CIS . |
| 8 | The market in the Pacific Basin is expected to continue its rapid growth and the challenge for LASMO is to find additional reserves of gas to supply this growing demand . |
| 9 | The theme of disintegration in the novel ( Louise 's Tante Marie is lying comatose in an upstairs room on the verge of death ) is suggested formally by the disjointed narration and chronology . |
| 10 | NOW that 's he getting on a bit , Eric Clapton is steering clear of his flashy Ferraris and Alfa Romeos . |
| 11 | Brian Honour starts a two-match suspension after reaching 31 points and John Tinkler is rated doubtful with a groin strain . |
| 12 | Thus while Deryck Fox can celebrate his first call-up since 1986 , it is only with the knowledge that he will be discarded if Gregory is passed fit . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're implying that the KGB is running some big operation in Romania . |
| 14 | In other galleries in Dering Street , Annely Juda is showing three artists in an exhibition titled ‘ Floor→Wall→Floor ’ ( 6 April–23 May ) . |
| 15 | In Dering Street , Annely Juda is showing several large new wood sculptures by David Nash in an exhibition titled ‘ At the Edge of the Forest ’ ( to 19 June ) . |
| 16 | Annely Juda is exhibiting new wood sculptures by David Nash ( 22 April-22 May ) . |
| 17 | On the site of a Celtic ring fort and at the crossing point of several ley lines , Turrell is building seven skyspaces which will be completed in 1995 , well ahead of the Roden Crater , which competes for his energy and financial resources . |
| 18 | Arizona is reintroducing thick-billed parrots , which became extinct in the state in 1918 after being hunted for their meat . |
| 19 | Martin Brundle arrived at the circuit with a mint-fresh six-litre Jaguar XJR-S on load for the day from Tom Walkinshaw Racing , a company connected with the Benetton F1 team for which Brundle is driving this season . |
| 20 | At Calvary is found full cleansing for ever through faith alone in the finished work of Christ on the cross . |
| 21 | This is perhaps best signified in Act five when Tamburlaine is sent two young virgins by the governor of Damascus . |
| 22 | Bernard Jacobson is showing ten landscape paintings dating from 1940–60 ( to 1 April ) as part of his series of exhibitions devoted to modern and contemporary landscape art , and there is a more widely ranging survey of his long and prolific career at Waddington ( 3 March-3 April ) . |
| 23 | The Island of Taiwan is situated several hundred miles off the Chinese mainland , west of Hong Kong ; Japan lies a few hours ’ plane ride north-west while the Philippines rest a similar distance southwards . |
| 24 | But similar improvisation in Taiwan is producing efficient transport from motorcycles and scooters . |
| 25 | Instead , the United States is considering additional aid of $10 billion to help resettle the Soviet refugees and $3.2 billion for Israeli rearmament . |
| 26 | Richard Branson is accusing British Airways of a new round of dirty tricks against his airline Virgin Atlantic . |
| 27 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 28 | Some hospitals have lost 15 per cent of their nurses and in the south Ashford hospital , Surrey is using Red Cross volunteers . |
| 29 | MAAK is showing large works by William Tucker , Philip King , Basil Beattie and other British artists in its impressive Blackburn Road space in North London ( to 9 February ) . |
| 30 | Wright is promised hard time |