Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun Microsystems Inc is to invest a further £12m in its European manufacturing site at Linlithglow , Scotland : its Sparcstation 10 workstation is to be built at a new 70,000 square foot building , including , for the first time , the printed circuit boards ; up to 100 new jobs are expected to be created at the 350-strong operation . |
| 2 | The company said sales so far this year are up by 16 p.c. and it is forecasting a further profit rise in 1992 . |
| 3 | There is still a three-month waiting list for the cars , but even so , Caterham saw its turnover drop from a £9.4m peak in 1991 to £8.3m this year , and is forecasting a further drop next year , even though it has managed to increase its export sales a little . |
| 4 | The purpose of the Henley Work Forum is to promote a better understanding of the opportunities for restructuring organisations offered by effective application of Information and communications technology and to promote good practice . |
| 5 | The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation is building a further nine film and television studios in a complex to be called Television World . |
| 6 | The better mousetrap All you have to do is build a better version of brand X and the world will beat a path to your door . |
| 7 | Other comparable UK initiatives are taking place : the Royal Society of Arts is sponsoring a Higher Education for Capability programme ; the National Council for Vocational Qualifications , with its ideas on a competency based curriculum , is beginning to turn to higher education ; and the Council for Industry and Higher Education talks of developing the students ' personal transferable skills . |
| 8 | So far as the economic cost is concerned , unemployment represents a waste of resources and means that the economy is producing a lower rate of output . |
| 9 | Not only is the relation in the latter between Homeric ‘ myth ’ and modern novel one of irony and transformation ; in it the ‘ myth ’ , oddly enough , is given a higher and more assured status as something less sophisticated , more archetypal , closer to the holy and the divine . |
| 10 | The treatment of the two sisters as objects for possession and domination is given a further and perhaps more insidious turn by their mother , Eleonora , who by ‘ serpentizing Fraud ’ uses her daughters to gain political advantage . |
| 11 | Bored , out-of-work young people turn to vandalism , drugs and crime , and the spiral is given a further twist . |
| 12 | 8 A coin collector has C coins and is given a further 20 coins.If he now has 2,352 coins altogether , how many did he have at first ? |
| 13 | The ratio of brain weight to spinal cord weight is considered a better measurement of complexity and intelligence . |
| 14 | Eraut ( 1977 ) adopts a process viewpoint when he argues that : ‘ A teacher who is not developing to any noticeable extent is becoming a worse teacher , because development is natural and to avoid it is to deteriorate ’ . |
| 15 | It is becoming a smaller version of Ogilvy & Mather . |
| 16 | Nigel Hawthorne 's performance is wonderful : he is becoming a finer and finer actor . |
| 17 | The projects end up with scores of 250 and 215 respectively , and , hey presto , the project with the higher score is deemed the better . |
| 18 | Since saving takes place out of real disposable ( net ) income , to tax the returns on savings is to impose a further tax on net income . |
| 19 | Average working hours have dropped by 40 minutes over the last year , implying either the need for less overtime or further indications that management is keeping a tighter control on costs while continuing to improve productivity . |
| 20 | The sooner this bastard 's caught the better . ’ |
| 21 | The competition is to provide a better service for all — children , parents , school staff and community . |
| 22 | No , the main intention , as I have said , is to provide a better deal , particularly for the cash customer and the debit card user . |
| 23 | ‘ The aim is to provide a bigger market place . |
| 24 | The central purpose of this project is to obtain a better understanding of China 's attitude towards , and likely role in international arms control . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's becoming a Genestealer , ’ babbled Googol . |
| 26 | The combined effect is to benefit the smaller and the more handicapped farms and MacEwen and Sinclair predict an overall HLCA saving of£3.2 million which could go to upland farms in a range of measures , including the payment of HLCAs on the first 10 dairy cows per farm . |
| 27 | The aim of this study is to secure a better understanding of the association between major social , economic and demographic trends and the pattern of children in care . |
| 28 | The smaller societies have had a lousy 12 months and this year is looking no better . |
| 29 | The intention behind this policy is to reach a wider audience , with consequently greater publicity and public awareness of the investigations undertaken . |
| 30 | The school manager , in contrast to his or her experience of GCSE , here has to struggle for clarity — a struggle which is made no easier by the over-simplified statements of policy about the unification of general and vocational education which are made by central government and by its political opponents . |