Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One MP , Tewfiq Assaf ( Druze member of the ‘ National Struggle Front ’ from Aley ) is demanding a second parliamentary chamber in Lebanon to extend political power to the Druze — a Druze , he maintains , should be the speaker of this new parliamentary chamber . |
| 2 | Its aim is to provide the first comprehensive study of childhood injuries in the district and form the basis of an accident prevention drive . |
| 3 | With signs the recession is ending the next two months will show whether the Leicester lights help or hinder shopkeepers . |
| 4 | But he 's done the next best thing by getting himself a uniform and a car . |
| 5 | ‘ But he 's birdied the first four of the second nine . |
| 6 | What Summerchild is doing , now he has someone to do it for , is living the last dozen years of his life , which have gone by without his quite taking them in . |
| 7 | Sun Alliance sold the majority of its 14.24% stake in Commercial Union for £280m and merged its Australian non-life operation with Royal Insurance 's to form the fourth largest general insurer in Australia . |
| 8 | The Office des Communications Sociales of Montreal , Canada , is holding the first national conference on the Church and communication in Cap-Rouge , 4–6 June . |
| 9 | Bavaria is facing the first major sell-off of an historic private collection since the war , and they have consulted Britain on how to respond , as England is all too used to such dispersals ( Yet another took place last month with the sale of Pitchford Hall ) . |
| 10 | She 's abroad but is getting the first available flight back . |
| 11 | er and that 's getting a third two walls and erm an alcove with erm two glass sliding doors and then erm single wardrobe and you 've got the |
| 12 | He ca n't ask them , so he is doing the next best thing . |
| 13 | His advice is to study the first four pages of the explanatory booklet carefully , particularly paragraph six — action to take now . |
| 14 | Charlie 's send-off : Comedian Charlie Williams is to start the 33rd traditional Easter Monday walk between Scalby and Cloughton , near Scarborough . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you think I 'm jealous of Eleanor because she 's spent the last four years with you , and I have n't ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Potter 's spent the last fifteen years harming people like Geoffrey . |
| 17 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't even know what they 'd talk about ; a member of the factory-owning Scottish gentry and a second mate — or whatever Lachy is these days — who 's spent the last few years in Oz . |
| 19 | Tomorrow in the final part of the series , a farmer who 's spent the last ten years converting his farm puts the case for organic farming . |
| 20 | This scale , which can be looked upon either as mode 4 of a major scale ( eg. G major starting from C , or a C major scale with a ♯4th ) , or the major scale that is found a 5th higher than the root of the chord that you want to play it against . |
| 21 | He 's represented the first fifteen at Stowe School near Buckingham for the past five years . |
| 22 | THE British Government is taking the first tentative steps to standardise the computers and computer equipment that are bought by civil servants . |
| 23 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 24 | That 's my normal naming convention , my normal naming convention is use the first two letters W L. W I 've explained , and L stands for linking . |
| 25 | What happens is that the council is Liberal Democrat controlled and the area council is Labour controlled and these two fight and that 's allowed the third obnoxious force to creep through so it 's not just Conservative cabinet government that is the problem . |
| 26 | One answer to the problem is to add a second hard drive . |
| 27 | INDUSTRIAL fasteners group TT is to pay a second interim dividend on March 31 for the year ended last December to ensure that shareholders do not lose out following the recent Budget changes . |
| 28 | Usenix is hosting the third annual Unix Security Symposium September 14–16 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore , Maryland along with the Computer Emergency Response Team : Usenix is be holding its annual Winter 1993 Technical Conference at the San Diego Town & Country Hotel in California January 25–29 . |
| 29 | ‘ Ca n't you tell them , ’ Sheppard whispered to Kingsley Martin during a meeting with Gregg , ‘ that we have n't time for all this intensive cultivation and that our job is to stop the next bloody war . ’ |
| 30 | The next step in the analysis is to exploit a second general relativistic effect . |