Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUGBY UNION : David Sole , who led Scotland to the Grand Slam in 1990 , is to retire later this year . |
| 2 | The city has one of the highest proportion of drug deaths in Britain ; a committee of MP 's heard recently that drug overdoses were the single biggest killer among the city 's young . |
| 3 | The little England midfielder is nursing badly bruised ankle ligaments after a challenge from Coventry 's Stewart Robson at the weekend . |
| 4 | It 's proving very difficult raising money for the sea wall because everybody likes to contribute towards buying something new but not so many like to repair something you have already got . |
| 5 | CRICKET 'S European championship is generating as much heat as the recent World Cup . |
| 6 | However , you will also learn that a major cause of sexual dissatisfaction is allowing too little time for foreplay . |
| 7 | Why is wasting so much time ? |
| 8 | Staff , LASMO 's first North Sea operated offshore development , is producing approximately 10,000 bopd from two subsea wells . |
| 9 | The human race is producing so much information — it is n't factual information , we 're not just looking at price movements of stocks and shares , but in the scientific community it 's very much to do with ideas and how that person can get across his ideas , his concepts to people to half a world away . |
| 10 | The human race is producing so much information . |
| 11 | So a snarling , spitting , clawing prey is given rather more respect than it may appear to deserve . |
| 12 | And Christie 's slice of the action might reach as high as £70,000 , with Lewis — idolised in Japan where he is given almost god-like status — pocketing £100,000 . |
| 13 | It was by no means the |
| 14 | If someone is given too much change in a supermarket , for instance , they might keep the money claiming that they need it much more than the supermarket does and , anyway , nobody would find out . |
| 15 | The function of the forcing resistance is given more detailed consideration in Chapter 5 . |
| 16 | Ethnicity is given more extended treatment in the following chapters . |
| 17 | Scotland 's health minister , Lord Fraser , announced yesterday that the Scottish Health Service Advisory Council will be disbanded when its current work programme is completed later this year . |
| 18 | The American plan is that the MRSs would store nuclear waste until a permanent repository is completed early next century . |
| 19 | So that the source of supplies for the saddlery trade is becoming more difficult year by year . |
| 20 | Not since the hey-day of Bette Davis has there been an actress who 's attracted so much loathing — and so much admiration . |
| 21 | The new controller is expected to improve performance but not add functionality ; a controller capable of handling arrays is expected later this year . |
| 22 | Availability is expected later this year . |
| 23 | Statutory consultation is expected later this year after receipt of responses to these proposals from purchasers , providers , and professional bodies . |
| 24 | A decision is expected later this month . |
| 25 | River Edge , New Jersey-based Delta Management Systems Inc , which specialises in administrative software for Kindergarten to 12th Grade schools and community colleges , claims that it completed the conversion of its Unix-based Administrative/Student Software to the HP 3000 in eight weeks , using the Posix interface , and availability is expected later this month . |
| 26 | More on that is expected later this week . |
| 27 | A final decision on whether the Ayr or Galway plant will survive Digital 's planned shedding of up to 25,000 jobs worldwide is expected later this week . |
| 28 | The vote is expected later this week . |
| 29 | A major upgrade is expected later next year . |
| 30 | Its SPARCbook 2 notebook computer is expected early next year . |