Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] is [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queensland parliament is to debate a bill to give the State rights over the genetic and chemical composition of its native species . |
| 2 | A £17,000 tree planting scheme for Tudhoe village is to get a £3,648 boost from Sedgefield District Council . |
| 3 | Until 5 December , the Louis Carré gallery is showing a series of works in watercolour and gouache by Jean Bazaine . |
| 4 | Pat Cash is to request a wild card entry for Wimbledon , but it is open to question whether it will be granted . |
| 5 | Conran Octopus is launching a Royal Horticultural Society Collection in March , with four titles at £15.99 : The Container Garden by Thomasina Tarling ( 1 85029 411 9 ) , The Glasshouse Garden by John Watkins ( 414 3 ) , The Shady Garden by Jane Taylor ( 363 5 ) , and The Flower Garden by Helen Dillon ( 369 4 ) . |
| 6 | Cornhill Insurance is introducing a corporate identity designed by Walker Izard . |
| 7 | IF you are down in the South West sector of the region over the next weekend the Swanage Railway is having a Steam Gala weekend . |
| 8 | HONGKONG & Shanghai Banking Corporation yesterday detailed the terms of its £3.1 billion takeover of Midland Bank-but the 385p per share offer is below expectations and the market believes Lloyds Bank is considering a counter-bid . |
| 9 | The Brighton Museum is offering a selection of her paintings from her English period , 1766–81 , although paintings for British clients dating from her Italian period are included , as is her self portrait ( a copy of that in the Uffizi gallery ) . |
| 10 | The National Coaching Foundation has now received more than £1m from the Foundation for Sport and Arts , and Middlesbrough council is seeking a share . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough Council is to introduce a 10p per journey charge from Monday . |
| 12 | Middlesbrough Council is launching a bin-bag blitz on residents who cause health hazards by putting out refuse sacks before collection day . |
| 13 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 14 | IBM Corp is to license a version of its CICS/6000 CICS overlay for the Encina transaction processing monitor to Hewlett-Packard Co , which says it will offer it on its HP9000 Precision Architecture RISC-based Unix machines — but conversion of the IBM product will not be a simple task — it wo n't be ready to ship until the second half of 1993 . |
| 15 | RAMSEY Island off the Pembrokeshire coast is to become a nature reserve managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 16 | A former England cricketer is making a comeback next month , after breaking his knee twice . |
| 17 | To accompany the exhibition , the Van Gogh Museum is organising a symposium on 27 November on the topic of the furniture and interior designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh . |
| 18 | But times have changed , and with several successful campaigns behind it ( goats have been eradicated from five islands ) Galapagos conservation is taking a new direction . |
| 19 | Elisabeth Valley is presenting a first solo exhibition by Sébastien De Ganay , whose paintings incorporate jetsam of various kinds . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a job coming up in Easington where the Middlesbrough group is clearing a dyke system of the sort we are trying to create here . |
| 21 | ICL Plc is to announce a technology transfer deal with Mountain View , California-based Pyramid Technology Corp that will result in Pyramid 's three-schema , symmetric multi-processing bus architecture being incorporated into new ICL SuperSparc-based machines expected in 1994 . |
| 22 | John Higgins of Bristol University is preparing a survey review of concordancing programs for the journal System . |
| 23 | The Walton Street Association is to throw a three-hour party , starting at 6pm , and Christmas shoppers should heed the early warning blizzard reports . |
| 24 | The GM plan is to buy a significant but not controlling stake in the British car maker . |
| 25 | Shetland Islands Council is paying a ‘ green ’ supplement of £35 a litre to encourage the change . |
| 26 | Bringing the big boys in under a UN flag is exposing a clash of styles ; they tend to have their own way of doing things and there is pressure on the organisation to conform . |
| 27 | The Waterford Crustal business is examining a range of potential opportunities for selective brand extension . |
| 28 | I have recently been to a performance of Mr Handel 's Messiah and , would you believe it the Second West Yorkshire Yeomanry is to hold a Regimental Ball in the New Year , in the Exchange Buildings ! ’ |
| 29 | Thames Polytechnic is envisaging a course which will qualify teachers for the secondary phase ; in the first instance this course will be open to teachers from the Inner London Education Authority only . |
| 30 | Sefton 's Chief Tourism Officer Phil King is attending a conference in Scarborough and was unavailable for comment . |