Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a subject committee is in place to assist the development of the initiative and the intention is to have the first cohort of students enter the programme in Autumn 1993 . |
| 2 | The new car is to mark the 30th anniversary of the MGB . |
| 3 | THE Ulster People 's College is to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Irish women obtaining the right to vote . |
| 4 | An alternative is to build a second tree consisting of the words in the compounds , i.e. a ‘ compound tree ’ . |
| 5 | The dream is to house the next administration ; the nightmare is to house the last one . |
| 6 | Sally Lescher 's Conservation Management is giving a first exhibition in London to Glaswegian portraitist , John Boyd ( to 24 July ) , whose thickly brushed nude studies and landscapes have won admiration in Scotland . |
| 7 | THE NATIONAL Railway Museum is offering a last chance to visitors to see the locomotive Green Arrow ‘ in steam ’ before her certificate expires . |
| 8 | In collaboration with the other UK Research Councils and with international bodies and the European Community , the Economic and Social Research Council is undertaking the first phase of its Global Environmental Change Initiative . |
| 9 | Surrey County Council is to become the first local authority to sign the Peatland Protection Charter , and to commit itself to the phasing out of the use of peat in the council 's public parks , gardens and other landscaping activities . |
| 10 | ‘ Ca n't you tell them , ’ Sheppard whispered to Kingsley Martin during a meeting with Gregg , ‘ that we have n't time for all this intensive cultivation and that our job is to stop the next bloody war . ’ |
| 11 | On the circle is placed a second circle with a small window , the size of a picture . |
| 12 | The common aim is to found a Second Republic and to reduce or eliminate the power of the political cliques who have held sway since the fall of fascism . |
| 13 | Its aim is to provide the first comprehensive study of childhood injuries in the district and form the basis of an accident prevention drive . |
| 14 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 15 | The meeting is held every third Tuesday at MIND , Borough Road , Darlington , at 7pm . |
| 16 | Your opponent is allowed the first turn , and will almost always begin by picking up two different cards , say an ace and a six . |
| 17 | A sensible compromise is to use the first method for longer photo-stories and to add a sticky label to the photograph giving outline details and the source and to use the second method for short captions . |
| 18 | The quantities U , q and w are related by the equation This mathematical relationship is called the first law of thermodynamics . |
| 19 | The Open Software Foundation is to reveal the first snapshot of its Distributed Management Environment architecture after its members meeting in Munich on the 13th . |
| 20 | His advice is to study the first four pages of the explanatory booklet carefully , particularly paragraph six — action to take now . |
| 21 | The tendency within more recent authority is to pitch the second part of the hurdle at varying levels depending upon the nature of the decision-maker in question . |
| 22 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 23 | A good way of gauging whether the dogs are owner or dog-attached in a two-dog environment is to take the second dog for a quick walk , leaving the first at home ; when you return , the first dog will almost certainly greet you first . |
| 24 | The parent who shows strong disapproval , smacking the child or forcibly removing its hand from the offending area is sowing the first seeds of inhibition or sexual disorder . |
| 25 | The Library is exhibiting the first of series of paintings produced by members of Eve Bennett 's RBGE Botanical Painting Course . |
| 26 | Milk , after the baby is born the first time the baby actually has to digest its own food it has to process the food that it takes in , what 's in milk ? |
| 27 | Once a Bill is read a first time , it can be printed and is usually available the next day . |
| 28 | THE British Government is taking the first tentative steps to standardise the computers and computer equipment that are bought by civil servants . |
| 29 | As a Conservative I naturally want the Government to survive and to win the next election , but plainly if the Deputy Prime Minister resigns that is something which gives cause for readjustment and rethinking if the Government is to win the next election . |
| 30 | Elisabeth Valley is presenting a first solo exhibition by Sébastien De Ganay , whose paintings incorporate jetsam of various kinds . |