Example sentences of "[noun] is [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CISCO is seeking division of the Official List into segments with categories of companies set up according to their market capitalisation . |
| 2 | If kindness is giving territory to the uniqueness of other people , then it also reflects an assured sense of one 's own identity . |
| 3 | One of the main functions of the large intestine is to salvage energy from dietary carbonhydrate which has neither been digested nor absorbed in the small intestine . |
| 4 | Rhythm is taken care of by a Tube Works preamp and VHT power amp . |
| 5 | 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% . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It seems most likely that the breeding stock is becoming resident on its breeding waters . |
| 8 | The third way of producing a card is to present artwork to a printer and have it professionally reproduced . |
| 9 | The purpose of this thought experiment is to draw attention to the fact that a number of pragmatic phenomena can be explicated by reference to just these sorts of features : for example , as we shall see , deixis can be thought of as based on the assumption of mutual orientation , presupposition on the assumption of shared knowledge of a domain and its updating , speech acts on the making explicit , for other participants , of one 's interactional goals , conversational implicature on the assumption of interactional co-operation , and so on . |
| 10 | It 's the fourth year running that the Tudor Manor is playing host to a mini opera season in the three hundred seater auditorium set up at the side of the house . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the BBC SSO is holding fire on balloting its members until it receives more information about the merger to create a National Orchestra of Scotland , which would double as the orchestra for both the BBC and SO . |
| 12 | This means that the court can not take account of the various breaches actually committed , for which the defendant is seeking protection under the clause , to decide if the clause is reasonable or not , either generally , or separately in relation to each breach . |
| 13 | A workshop , lecture demonstration and video presentation showing how Bharata Matyam is finding innovation within itself in order to reach a wider international audience . |
| 14 | Now Eleanor is Catering Manager in charge of the staff restaurant at STB Headquarters in Edinburgh . |
| 15 | To focus upon the processes of characterization is to draw attention to the definition of act or event , and interaction between potential deviant and enforcement agent . |
| 16 | In fact , a very good means of creating a contrasting episode is to have narration against a quiet , sustained choral background . |
| 17 | The loss is causing concern to Moscow doctors , who have warned that without the forest , the city 's air pollution problems will increase . |
| 18 | Several specialist companies [ often subsidiaries of clearing banks ] offer a factoring service whereby the exporter is offered finance against book debts/receivables . |
| 19 | Therefore the role of the Young England Rugby Club is to enhance involvement in youth rugby by creating a direct link with the very top of the game , and that means the RFU and the England squad . |
| 20 | The UN Environment Programme is gathering information about ozone depleters , and there are some fears that it might add further chlorinated solvents to the list . |
| 21 | The objective of the two-year programme is to develop technology for the ‘ Detoxification of Effluents by Photocatalytic Science and Engineering ( DEPSE Project ) . |
| 22 | This year , Hester is spending Christmas with friends who have lots of young children : ‘ That will help to fill the void , ’ she says . |
| 23 | He hears that an anti-government demonstration is to take place in the Beirut suburb of Basta — a Shia district which 30 years later will be controlled by pro-Iranian militiamen — and he takes a taxi to investigate : |
| 24 | Thus in [ 12 ] the hearer is given access to the entry for SPRINT . |
| 25 | Sotheby 's chairman and largest shareholder is offloading part of his stake in the auction house , but retains overall control |
| 26 | The action is slow to build up , but once midway through the first act the melodrama is unleashed layer upon layer , with liberal use of corpses and skeletons — the worms of decomposition having done an admirably speedy job in some cases . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most important task facing NAB in the immediate future is to establish credibility in the eyes of those concerned with providing advanced further education , and in this regard the role of the DES will be crucial . |
| 28 | Now a new line of research is taking shape in the US to combat these and other toxic chemicals that are known collectively as chlorinated aromatic compounds . |
| 29 | The principal aim of the research is to collect information about how the use of donor insemination to solve childlessness affects the members of the family so created as the child grows up . |
| 30 | The most common practice in educational research is to take occupation as the basis for identifying class , often adopting one of the official classifications of occupations used by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) socio-economic classes , socioeconomic groups or , most usually , the one actually called social classes , which is currently : |