Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he has no intention of exposing his limitations at any of the Grand Slam tournaments this year , Borg is taking wild-card entries into Monte Carlo and Munich as well as playing in several 35-and-over events . |
| 2 | The market in the Pacific Basin is expected to continue its rapid growth and the challenge for LASMO is to find additional reserves of gas to supply this growing demand . |
| 3 | Arizona is reintroducing thick-billed parrots , which became extinct in the state in 1918 after being hunted for their meat . |
| 4 | Richard Branson is accusing British Airways of a new round of dirty tricks against his airline Virgin Atlantic . |
| 5 | At the time when Poland has its first Solidarity prime minister , Hungary is to have free elections , and Britain is fed up with Mrs Thatcher 's authoritarian style , Labour should be seen to take democratic issues seriously . |
| 6 | Through its OptiPure programme , Sepracor is developing improved forms of several commonly prescribed drugs . |
| 7 | With bookings down dramatically in reaction to the Gulf war , TWA is to cut European flights by nearly half and lay off 2,500 people . |
| 8 | Karen is hoping local businesses will lend their support to the venture . |
| 9 | If IBM is contemplating dumping PCs , which cost it money every time it sells one , that would make Rios and soon-to-be PowerPC machines its entry level . |
| 10 | The strategy of the Bank of England is to bring forward auctions and offers for sale by tender at times when it thinks market demand will be strong and not at times when prices are falling . |
| 11 | Spoonerisms : Bertie Somme is planning spooncarving classes in September , teaching techniques for making functional spoons . |
| 12 | The plane maker , Boeing is ordering new inspections on seven hundred jumbo jets following last month 's Amsterdam air tragedy . |
| 13 | In a letter to Scottish Enterprise , the chief executive of Forth Ports Authority , Hugh Thompson , claimed the London office of Locate in Scotland is marketing potential facilities at Rosyth in preference to facilities available at Forth ports . |
| 14 | For Landry , Leapor is ridiculing nostalgic ideas of the function of the country house : |
| 15 | As a result both agencies have to continue claiming that Russia is facing terrible threats from the West and therefore that their existence is essential despite the fact that Gorbachev is busily telling the Russian people that co-existence is not only possible but desirable as are many aspects of capitalist society . |
| 16 | The CRE is investigating possible breaches of race relations and education laws over the region 's testing of black and Asian children with suspected learning difficulties for special needs education . |
| 17 | Northern Ireland is introducing comparable reforms to those in England and Wales ( DENI , 1989 ; see Chapter 4 above ) . |
| 18 | For instance , the main function of the tense system in Hopi is to signal modal meanings such as certainty , uncertainty , possibility , and obligation . |
| 19 | ‘ At the moment Helen is cooking enormous meals for me , but I 've told her I insist on looking after myself once I start working . ’ |
| 20 | Galerie Di Meo is presenting work by ten artists from Brauner to Fautrier and Picasso while Galerie Durand-Dessert is showing recent gouaches by Gerard Garouste . |
| 21 | Rather than recovering lost languages , John Friedman is recovering lost lives . |
| 22 | However , even if , for the sake of argument , it is assumed that this is not the case and that the USSR is directing substantial resources to the winning of Latin America for Communism , it is still necessary to extend the analysis further . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps our friend Fagg is looking for enlightenment about the role of the Vietnamese in the Second World War , or by chance Glastonbury is investigating recent discoveries of esoteric viruses . ’ |
| 24 | Madhuri Dixit is challenging Thundering Thighs for the top slot |
| 25 | Having made a comparison with Polaris , how does the Minister reconcile having a strategic deterrent which is primarily devoted to NATO purposes when NATO is abandoning nuclear weapons to a considerable degree and when NATO per se would have no Soviet target for Trident ? |
| 26 | Private client broking firms have set up their own trade body in response to fears that the ISE is ignoring small customers in favour of institutional investors and international equities ( Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers ( APCIMS ) ) . |
| 27 | Samsung is recruiting non-Hewlett-Packard partners , offering unbundled configurations to enable resellers to configure their own systems by adding third-party peripherals . |
| 28 | The SSD is funding voluntary groups to provide counsellors and advocates to help women cope with child protection investigations . |
| 29 | Blackpool rock-maker John Olsen is making sweet toes in red , white and blue . |
| 30 | Jordan is facing immense difficulties trying to provide food and shelter for the evacuees . |