Example sentences of "[noun] is [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The bridge closure is affecting many businesses .
2 Arsenal Football Club is issuing more bonds to help finance the conversion to all-seated accommodation .
3 Again , one of the objectives of the company law harmonisation programme is to remove such obstructions and create a level playing field in corporate management structures .
4 While girls are at higher risk than boys , increasingly research is suggesting more boys experience sexual abuse than was at first thought .
5 The purpose of this research is to remedy these deficiencies .
6 Related research is exploring these relationships at the national and river basin level , so that the farm-level work will be able to provide greater detail on specific ground level relationships , and on the factors which variability in response .
7 The aim of the research is to develop such tests .
8 And , despite a thousand excuses , most know that the only sure way to lose excess weight is to eat fewer calories .
9 The purpose of this chapter is to highlight those features and , for convenience , consider also the media of political socialization in Britain .
10 The purpose of this chapter is to give some hints on how to comment on tables such as might be found in government summary publications .
11 The purpose of this chapter is to review such developments along with the more mundane business of recruiting new partners and opening new offices generally , and to analyse some of the problems they involve .
12 Our objective in the first part of this chapter is to combine these pieces of analysis and so derive a more general model ( developed originally by J.R .
13 The second stage of the study is to correlate these changes in competitive edge with changes in market performance , while taking due account of other factors influencing market performance .
14 The main objective of this study is to quantify these effects with a view to predicting the impact of possible changes in tax rates .
15 The object of the study is to provide some answers to such questions and to identify specific measures which might assist in the achievement of certain national goals , such as preventing further loss of broadleaved woods .
16 Current membership of these teams involves one in three of all Noble Metals employees on a permanent basis and the intention is to involve all employees in the teams by rotation .
17 The intention is to make these publications easily readable with the objective of providing quick and basic answers to queries .
18 The intention is to investigate these choices in their social , political and economic context to discover how different pressures at different times might have influenced them .
19 Northern Cyprus now has an occupier whose crime is to protect those rights and whose chief affront to the majority is to remain there passively .
20 The effect is to maintain more animals on the same food supply , but with less metabolically active individuals , so that retention or re-evolution of poikilothermy is part of a syndrome of cryptic , relatively sedentary individuals with relatively high opportunities for contact and mating : 8.5 three-toed sloths and 1.2 two-toed sloths per ha .
21 This may be necessary even if the industry is situated many miles from the site .
22 Now the figure is multiplied several times , from shirt vendors to tour guides to the youths who hustle tapes of ragga dances — usually just pirated radio shows — near the museum .
23 The ideas expressed may well be wide of the mark , or they may not be , but this does not really matter since the purpose of hypotheses is to stimulate more ideas , and the research to either confirm or refute them .
24 Another important aspect of the EEC 's communication work is to bring these needs to public attention — at national and international levels .
25 The report also shows that the NHS is treating more patients than ever before and placing much more emphasis on quality of services .
26 It 's a vicious circle from which the only escape is to bring all parties together with some common framework such as Eureka with the prospect of Government support in order to reduce the very real financial risks involved .
27 As most people now know , the broad aim of the Act is to control all aspects of food safety throughout the food contribution chain .
28 Unless the expert is determining all disputes under a contract ( see 6.9 ) , it is vital to define the issue clearly to avoid disputes about the interpretation of the words .
29 Management writers who emphasise the cultural properties of organisations argue that the main task of management is to integrate these subcultures into a reasonably coherent and cohesive whole , to build a corporate identity and commitment through shaping the beliefs and values which guide action .
30 Springfields is supporting several events including a Lancashire Industry exhibition and illuminations in a local park and is providing a mobile play facility to Preston neighbourhood unit .
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