Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Richard Branson is accusing British Airways of a new round of dirty tricks against his airline Virgin Atlantic . |
| 32 | Rather than recovering lost languages , John Friedman is recovering lost lives . |
| 33 | She has often darkly alluded to some form of abuse in her own formative years , and there 's a strong sense that she 's singing these songs to someone in particular . |
| 34 | Local Government minister Michael Portillo is n't expected to comment on Gloucestershire 's problems until he 's heard similar demands for help from twenty five other councils . |
| 35 | She 's bringing some files I have to work on . |
| 36 | He 's bringing half-a-dozen bodyguards with him but they 're all amateurs , made up of officers from the Zimbalan army . |
| 37 | The European Community is to implement new moves to protect the environment which could raise petrol prices by up to four pence a gallon throughout Europe . |
| 38 | Much emphasis is placed these days on understanding and applying standard practice rather than simply learning it by rote . |
| 39 | The parties can make provision in the agreement for a different measure of damages which , for example , may be appropriate if the acquirer is to invest large amounts of money in the offeree and hence could lose much more than merely the purchase consideration . |
| 40 | Support teachers sole brief is to support specific children may find that they have little room for manoeuvre to combat these likely problems . |
| 41 | BNFL is to plough £15,000 into a local organisation whose aim is to support new businesses and create jobs in an area with one of the highest levels of unemployment in Lancashire . |
| 42 | A prime function of nurses is to support optimum levels of wellness and function in elderly people , and community nurses , who are increasingly undertaking health screening for this client group , are ideally placed encourage them to maintain their level of wellness , and to offer or organise support when necessary . |
| 43 | ‘ Our directive is to support multinational companies moving into Eastern Europe , ’ says Andrew Gibson , BT 's director for Eastern Europe , whose group welcomes enquiries from accountancy firms thinking of setting up there , or whose clients intend to do so . |
| 44 | The aim , as stated in the company 's annual report is to support multiple servers ; Windows , Presentation Manager , Motif and Open Look graphical user interfaces ; the C and SQL development languages ; SNA and TCP/IP protocols ; and OS/2 , Unix and MVS operating systems . |
| 45 | The justification can imply an awareness of how the meaning of attitudinal positions depends upon the wider context of controversy , and can not just be understood in terms of the individual 's uttered attitudinal statements . |
| 46 | For Landry , Leapor is ridiculing nostalgic ideas of the function of the country house : |
| 47 | The parties should consider Article 85 in transactions where either of the parties involved belongs to a corporate group with a turnover in excess of approximately £150 million or the vendor and the purchaser together enjoy 5 per cent or more of the total market for the relevant goods or services in the area of the common market affected by their agreement and one of the parties , normally the vendor , is accepting restrictive covenants . |
| 48 | Sunsoft says all it has left to do is upgrade localised versions of the software from Solaris 2.0 to Solaris 2.1 : German , French , Italian , Japanese and two Chinese editions are due . |
| 49 | IBM Personal Software products is grooming future versions of PC-DOS as an operating system for personal digital assistants . |
| 50 | The engine-out approach is flown ten knots faster with only fifteen degrees of flap . |
| 51 | While girls are at higher risk than boys , increasingly research is suggesting more boys experience sexual abuse than was at first thought . |
| 52 | I 'm sure your enlightened civilizing mission which is bringing modern communications and industry so unselfishly to the Annamese people will make sure that no such conflict will ever be necessary here . |
| 53 | Our spies report that guests wearing Levi 's received free parasols for their jugs of cider . |
| 54 | Sussexdown is situated nine miles from Worthing and stands in seven acres of grounds . |
| 55 | For example , an estate agent might say , ‘ The house is situated four miles from the company where you work ( product feature ) which means that you can easily be at work within fifteen minutes of leaving home ’ ( customer benefit ) . |
| 56 | The largest of the Amirantes group of islands , Des Roches is situated 120 miles southwest of Mahe and just under an hour by plane . |
| 57 | South Cave is situated twelve miles west of Hull . |
| 58 | This may be necessary even if the industry is situated many miles from the site . |
| 59 | This 17th-century farmhouse and watermill is situated 1,100 feet up in the beautiful and rugged mountain countryside of the Snowdonia National Park . |
| 60 | Firbush Point Field Centre is situated 80 miles from Edinburgh on the south shore of Loch Tay . |