Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisers of last weekend 's New Age festival in the Forest of Dean are facing prosecution for noise nuisance . |
| 2 | Multi-volume catalogues prepared by the Pushkin Museum and Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow are gathering dust with the publishers without any prospect of this situation changing . |
| 3 | The subtle difference is tha that Swindon are going function by function and getting er five certificates . |
| 4 | Stewart McConnel and Paul Carnahan are hatching plans for a reunion in the summer to mark the fifth anniversary of your departure ! |
| 5 | When faced with proposals which offer ‘ a reorientation of communications cutting across traditional routes and boundaries ’ , which in English means building roads over people 's houses , and that routes for these roads are represented by a squiggle from a felt tip pen , which then is incorporated as the project logo , we must begin to wonder if the DED and DOE are poking fun at the communities likely to suffer . |
| 6 | MIDDLESBROUGH are to join Newcastle in a prestigious four-team pre-season tournament at St James 's Park . |
| 7 | THE FRANK & WALTERS are using MORRISSEY as a shinty stick and BETTY BOO is exchanging make-up tips with RICHEY MANIC . |
| 8 | WIDNES are seeking talks with Welsh star Jonathan Davies after claims he wants to leave rugby league early to coach his old union club , Llanelli . |
| 9 | The National Rivers Authority is busy rebuilding a major weir at Tewkesbury , and another 7 weirs on the stretch of the Avon to Evesham are awaiting restoration with help from the trust . |
| 10 | Northamptonshire are playing Warwickshire at Edgebaston . |
| 11 | Historians in London 's Hounslow are requesting contributions for a forthcoming book on the history of their Asian community . |
| 12 | Is the Secretary of State aware that the management of the Albacom factory in Dundee are taking advantage of the circumstances of mass unemployment by sacking more than 100 members of the work force for the crime of taking industrial action , within the terms of the Government 's employment laws ? |
| 13 | Oil palm growers in the Malaysian state of Sabah are taking advantage of a loophole in conservation law to threaten the habitat of proboscis monkeys . |
| 14 | Northwest of Hamburg , in the small port of Emden , two Type 1700 diesel submarines made by Thyssen-Nordseewerke are nearing completion for Argentina . |
| 15 | Many schools and LEAs are exploring ways in which both teachers and children can be supported without withdrawing children from ordinary classes . |
| 16 | PETER Hunter , Damien Sarsfield and John Smethurst are seeking election to the National Executive Council of the National and Local Government 's Officers ' Association on a platform of total opposition to the union 's present disgraceful policy on abortion . |
| 17 | Middle-income countries such as India and the Philippines were allowed to draw from a special subsidy account offering loans at nominal interest rates of 0.5 per cent , while hard-hit , low-income countries such as Sri Lanka and Pakistan were offered assistance from the existing compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) . |
| 18 | The rest were to be handed over in 1989 and 1990 with Mr Gillespie being paid £318,750 on each occasion . |
| 19 | One of the earliest was the Reverend Edward Duke who , in the 1840s , found that several prehistoric sites , including Avebury , Silbury Hill and Stonehenge were aligned north-south with each other . |
| 20 | Training following appointment is also evidently not universal , for Goacher et al ( 1988 ) recorded that only 28 per cent of LEAs were offering training to their assistants in order to implement the 1981 Education Act . |
| 21 | On Sept. 9 Gamsakhurdia announced the formation of a republican Defence Ministry ( Dzhoni Pirtskhalaishvili being named Minister of Defence on Sept. 19 ) , and ordered rebel elements of the Georgian National Guard to return to barracks . |
| 22 | Mitchum , Ford and Lila were given bail at a thousand dollars each and a hearing was scheduled for the following week . |
| 23 | During the Bishopric of John of Bradfield 1278–1283 , we find John Usher of the parish of Snodland being granted land in Halling and Holborough . |
| 24 | She and Sue were arranging cauliflowers into an elegant pyramid on a shelf covered with plastic grass . |
| 25 | When Ian Thomson and the current editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Devereux were doing fieldwork for their book The Ley Hunter 's Companion , they visited the crypt and found that the needle of their compass maintained a strange rhythmic ‘ jigging ’ motion . |
| 26 | CISCO is seeking division of the Official List into segments with categories of companies set up according to their market capitalisation . |
| 27 | The failure of a forestry management project in northern Ecuador is raising questions over the World Bank 's role as administrator of the Global Environmental Facility ( GEF ) , the main international vehicle for financing environmental projects in developing countries . |
| 28 | 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% . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | CSEE SA is to buy 80% of Secre SA , the telecommunications and radio communications subsidiary of Schneider SA 's Merlin Gerin unit . |