Example sentences of "[conj] it is [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first there are further instructions about how the Passover is to be celebrated , who may join in , and where it is to take place . |
| 2 | After a detailed survey a large area of stone was removed to the Dorset County Museum where it is given pride of place . |
| 3 | There is a print by Thomas Fawcett dated 1817 , showing the Stocking Market and the Square , where it is said bulls were baited . |
| 4 | Lowthorpe is mentioned four times in the Domesday Book , where it is spelt Logetorp , and in King Edward the Confessor 's time it was valued at the princely sum of eight shillings . |
| 5 | Standard Chartered in London , understood to have around £300million on loan to Mr Bond , declined to comment , although it is understood executives are confident of the asset backing for most of the exposure . |
| 6 | So , while the Government claims that it is targeting help on those in greatest need , it is simultaneously increasing the numbers caught , in the Government 's terminology , in a ‘ dependency culture ’ . |
| 7 | She pointed out how to deal with a child , for example , who has run away near a busy road : ‘ You should explain to a child that it is creating danger , or is in a dangerous situation . |
| 8 | Following the announcement in January that it had suspended production of the Cambridge and Linx brands , Wharfedale has announced that it is to discontinue Linx , though it will undertake to maintain warranty and spare parts support . |
| 9 | If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence . |
| 10 | Mr Kinnock 's own union , the 1.1 million-strong Transport and General Workers ' Union , yesterday confirmed that it is to sue Mr Paddy Ashdown and six other Liberal Democrat leaders over a claim in a party newspaper that the T&G had advised members in 29 key marginals to vote Liberal Democrat rather than Labour . |
| 11 | Multilateral standardization can also give a party confidence when entering a market , since it knows that it is getting terms no worse than others already operating there . |
| 12 | The department says that it is seeking advice from the Committee on safety of Medicines on B17 . |
| 13 | The Kingfisher group , whose name was changed from Woolworths earlier this year , includes about 720 high street shops under the Woolworths name , electrical retailer Comet with 307 outlets , Britain 's leading DIY group , B&Q , and Superdrug , the high street chain which last week announced that it is buying Medicare from the Gateway supermarket chain 's new owners Isosceles . |
| 14 | Some observers have attributed the Soviet Union 's apparent willingness to carry a high trade deficit with almost all of its trading partners in Latin America to the fact that it is using trade primarily as a political instrument in order to increase its influence within the region . |
| 15 | That is ‘ No comment ’ , but it 's ‘ No comment ’ done in such a way that it is implying intelligence on the part of the audience , saying , ‘ Well , you realize , of course , that if I were to comment on this , you know , it would prejudice either the chances of the prisoner if we catch him or , you know , any possible clues and so on . ’ |
| 16 | MCVITIE 'S , part of the United Biscuits Group , announced today that it is to invest £4m in its Hungarian operation Gyori Keksz to build a crisp factory . |
| 17 | The European Commission has announced that it is dropping court cases against the UK on five projects deemed to infringe EC law , [ see EDs 57 ; 55 ; 52 ] . |
| 18 | Gossip that Next Computer Inc might abandon its hardware business to focus on its NextStep object-oriented operating environment UX No 419 ) has proved all too valid and last week the company confirmed that it is to abandon manufacture of its workstations . |
| 19 | Whilst ICL has duly announced that it is to support Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix MPX for multi-processing , Open Desktop environment and the SCO communications suite on its Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers , the OfficePower-on-SCO validation work — see above — was actually carried out on an Apricot Computers Ltd box . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , this week , IBM has announced that it is lopping $1,000m off its research and development budget , and indicated that turnover will slip back below $60,000m … |
| 21 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG indicates that it is to follow Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA in offering Eo Corp 's Eo 440 and Eo 880 personal digital assistants — and presumably it will buy a stake in Eo too . |
| 22 | ICL Plc has gone to Palo Alto , California-based Highland Software Inc for a licence manager for its multi-user Unix software products : ICL is taking Highland 's FLEXlm product , and will start offering it next spring ; terms of the agreement were not disclosed ; the Putney firm claims that its total Unix installed base is now valued at $3,000m and that it is doing $750m a year with kit running Unix System V.4 . |
| 23 | Ford has recently announced that it is to offer airbags as standard equipment on every model in its range in the UK . |
| 24 | On top of that , Telecom Finland announced last month that it is adopting Ionica 's technology . |
| 25 | At the same time , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania-based Transarc Corp has confirmed that it is adopting Solaris as a reference platform for its Encina on-line transaction processing monitor . |
| 26 | Because Britain is largely self-sufficient in its main sources of energy , the Government can perhaps claim immunity from the charge that it is exploiting deliveries from oil-exporting states to swell national tax coffers . |
| 27 | The company is understood to have abandoned development of the Repository altogether , and the switch of strategy leaves the whole AD/Cycle concept in complete disarray , though the company says that it is reaffirming support for the AD/Cycle tools available : to do anything else would leave the company open to all manner of retaliation from AD/Cycle International Alliance Members . |
| 28 | And Ford Motor Co has confirmed that it is dumping Motorola 's 88000 RISC and is switching to the PowerPC for future generations of its Electronic Engine Control Modules . |
| 29 | Having last week announced that it is backing Ken Livingstone for the Labour leadership , it now says it supports the ‘ Sun Readers ' Party ’ . |
| 30 | Lloyd 's has become acutely aware that it is losing business to large companies , notably in Britain and Europe . |