Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular it is revealing to consider two principles in deterrence theory which are considered to inhibit ‘ conventional ’ crime — these are ‘ the certainty of being caught ’ and ‘ the severity of the punishment ’ . |
| 2 | Another firm , Tiger Rail , is bidding to run three trains a week to carry china clay from Cornwall to Scotland . |
| 3 | CIC is budgeting to sell 100 machines over the next three years . |
| 4 | But no American politician , especially a wealthy one , is going to last two minutes if he 's caught looking down his nose at folk the way the French do . |
| 5 | In case anyone should think that some of our commentary on IBM Corp and its problems is a little apocalyptic , hear what they are saying on the other side of the Atlantic : ‘ With IBM , there 's a question in my mind whether the company is going to exist five years from now , ’ Kenneth Heebner of Boston fund manager Capital Growth Management commented to the Wall Street Journal . |
| 6 | If you know in advance that a customer is going to take six months to pay you instead of one and you still want to make the sale , then consider loading your price to cover your finance costs . |
| 7 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 8 | The Police Complaints Authority is going to investigate three complaints against officers involved in the Hillsborough football disaster which killed 95 people last April . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , do you really think that the Senate of the University of London is going to care two hoots about a footling little first-year lecture ? |
| 10 | Of course , as a scientist who 's planning an expedition that 's going to take 200 years to get underway , Charles has his critics within the Oxford establishment . |
| 11 | But if you practise it sitting down , your voice 'll be very different , the speed of your voice will be different , and if you do n't practise it out loud you wo n't be able to get any idea of whether it 's going to take three minutes or not . |
| 12 | Mr Williams also denied he was part of a gang who had targeted the couple by causing damage to their property and had been chanting ‘ Norman 's going to get 10 years ’ at Mrs Roberts . |
| 13 | Now it is aiming to recruit 100 runners for London 1991 and is eager to increase contributions from various other regional running events . |
| 14 | The initial target of 120 members for the co-op has already been achieved and the group is aiming to market 70,000 lambs and 6000 head of beef cattle in its first year . |
| 15 | According to another article ( 'Hospital closes beds as cash crisis bites ' , 28 September ) , Barts hospital in London , one of the best teaching hospitals in England , is having to close 75 beds . |
| 16 | While Mid-Glamorgan county council 's £2 million investment in the Cardiff-Aberdare Valley line has traffic exceeding expectations , it is having to buy three trains to get the Maesteg line re-opened , bringing its input to £3 million . |
| 17 | The US is preparing to send 28,150 troops for ‘ Operation Restore Hope ’ , one of the last foreign policy moves by out-going President Bush . |
| 18 | The NRA is pumping groundwater into the River Itchen in Hampshire to keep up its flow and is trying to save three streams , the Tong , the Little Stour and the Dour from going dry this summer . |
| 19 | NEC is hoping to shift 30,000 workstations over two years . |
| 20 | Bravo is planning to have 1,000 hotels on the system by 1 November , and 2,000 by March 1992 . |