Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were pilots getting their aircraft away on two engines , with armourers hanging on underneath checking the bombs , incendiaries blazing and HE S exploding in all directions . |
| 2 | Trade in the metals — which have applications ranging from making TV sets to catalysts-is dominated by two companies , Rhone Poulenc of France and Molycorp of the US . |
| 3 | In depression , less is known about biological vulnerability , but knowledge is accumulating about other explanations ( see chapters 4 and 5 ) . |
| 4 | Apart from sending troops , Egypt is helping in other ways . |
| 5 | He also demonstrates how hard it is to maintain this view , and how easy it is to lapse into logocentric assumptions . |
| 6 | Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension . |
| 7 | A PARISH council clerk is to retire in three months time after five years service . |
| 8 | I am sure they had the pious hope that this foundation would actually serve to increase the nation 's general fitness by pumping money into sport , but if the money is to go on improving facilities at cricket clubs and down the country , then a large number of cricketers who rely on lousy playing conditions for their place in the side will be forced into retirement . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Lilley should go to any city in this country and try to live with nothing … find how degrading it is to go to those places and ask for blankets and ask for food . ’ |
| 10 | An alternative is to go onto front points for the turn . |
| 11 | The report just released by the Royal College of Physicians on Care of Elderly People shows just how far there is to go in improving services for mentally ill elderly people and their carers . |
| 12 | What we wan na do is think of some buildings and describe them to ourselves and then work out what style , cos the thing is since the 1960s , styles like we want , like a progression of styles till the 1990s and see what 's changed and what 's stayed . |
| 13 | AXA has since ploughed almost $100m more into Equitable Life , which is recovering from heavy losses on its property portfolio , and reckons it will soon see a good return on its investment . |
| 14 | It 's now available in colours , the first time it 's altered in 102 years . |
| 15 | Progressive Archbishop Romero is assassinated by right-wing forces . |
| 16 | It is calculated for two cases : shear deformation and uniaxial stretching and compression . |
| 17 | This , the grant-related expenditure ( GRE ) , is calculated on similar levels of service to be provided by all local authorities . |
| 18 | The anti-dog programme is meeting with some encouraging success , using poisoned bait which is hidden under dark ledges . |
| 19 | Oh yes it is the , the column of the Eiffel Tower is hidden by those buildings is n't it ? |
| 20 | Two thirds of our annual consumption is hidden in processed foods such as cakes , biscuits , custard , tinned fruit , beer and fizzy drinks . |
| 21 | All drainage , which will contain some formaldehyde solution , is drained into closed vessels . |
| 22 | The building is partitioned into three sections , the central one being the main mill , with two dormer windows in the roof . |
| 23 | Short lengths of net can be used so that ideally the enclosed space is partitioned into three sections using two nets set parallel to each other . |
| 24 | What we have not yet considered is where the body clock is and how it is adjusted by external time-cues . |
| 25 | The DNA is arranged along stringy chromosomes , like long computer tapes . |
| 26 | The conference is arranged in four sessions : legislation ; monitoring emissions ; controlling emissions ; and cleaning up the environment — all of them subjects of considerable interest to senior management in industry . |
| 27 | If the unit is arranged in several ranks then only models in base contact can fight ( usually the front rank ) . |
| 28 | The melody is arranged in three octaves instead of two , for greater breadth and sonority . |
| 29 | ‘ The Collector ’ is arranged in three parts , each told in the first person by Clegg , Miranda , then Clegg again . |
| 30 | When the concept is explained by some writers , educational technology : |