Example sentences of "and [is] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blyth Tait says that the last time he won the top spot from Mary he only kept it for a week and is hoping to hang onto it for longer this time . |
| 2 | The company which owns the worldwide franchise of the name and trademark is planning an expansion phase — in the best possible taste , of course — and is hoping to get into the pockets of a few well-heeled outside investors . |
| 3 | He recently had a spell in Sweden , and is hoping to sign for a club there . |
| 4 | While the Prime Minister immediately offered the use of British military camps in West Germany to help cope with the current surge of refugees , her Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , promised East Germany the kind of practical help in creating a more market-orientated economy which Britain has given Poland — some £25 million of ‘ Know How ’ funds over 25 years and is pledged to give to ex-Communist Hungary . |
| 5 | When The Marriage of Figaro begins , the count has been married to Rosina for several years , and is beginning to tire of her . |
| 6 | Mike Bews was just getting better and better and is beginning to look like the making of yet another pro reared in Farnborough . |
| 7 | The electricals side is also trading well and is poised to benefit from growing conern about CFC gases . |
| 8 | There 's a current picture which is in the system and is bound to go in the paper tomorrow . |
| 9 | There is no point granting leave to a person with sufficient interest if it is clear , for example , that the applicant 's case is a hopeless one on its merits and is bound to fail for that reason ; or that the case raises only non-justiciable issues . |
| 10 | The aim of the discussion so far has been to show that tragedy arises from the spirit of music and is bound to perish without it . |
| 11 | The bypass is progressing well and is scheduled to open in July with a parish celebration on July 19th . |
| 12 | To be known as the Nadd Al Sheba Golf and Race Club , it is being built in and around a horse-racing track and is scheduled to open in October of next year . |
| 13 | The exhibition is entitled ‘ Scotland First Portrayed ’ , and is scheduled to run in our Exhibition Hall from 1 June to 30 October . |
| 14 | Because the nature of this experience subtly eludes the normal processes of human thought and feeling and is felt to engage with a power beyond them , it is termed " mystical " and one who knows it a " mystic " . |
| 15 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 16 | The railway continues to hug the coast and is lost to sight below the wooded slopes traversed by the road , which now becomes a fragrant avenue between trees and heathery banks spangled with primroses and , further , covered with rhododendrons . |
| 17 | The Soviet delegation strove and is striving to achieve on the basis of the Moscow decision , the speediest creation of a truly democratic Government in Korea expressing the will of the Korean people and capable of defending its interest . |
| 18 | Growth varies with individuals , however , and is said to vary between winter and summer . |
| 19 | This relationship has been analysed by Mason ( 1975 ) and is said to consist of : a source , e.g. the school and its activities , from which data is collected and recorded , from which managers draw inferences and predictions which are evaluated and the values and choices of the organisation are followed by action . |
| 20 | Excessive aluminium content is conducive to brain and bone damage and is said to contribute to the onset of Alzheimer 's disease , a form of dementia , at an older age ( Hodgkinson , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | It has been attributed to the ivory-carver of the Crucifixion relief on the book-cover of the abbess Theophanu of Essen and is estimated to sell for £200–300,000 ( $360–540,000 ) . |
| 22 | Maternal infection can result in fetal infection and damage and is estimated to occur in 0–1–0–5% of pregnancies in the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | It is pretty clear that while big business is being done in local area network hubs and routers , the market is very overcrowded , and in those circumstances , the outcome is usually that the rich get richer and the poor get taken over or go bust : observers reckon that in that context , the richest of the rich is Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , which did $340m in the year to last July and is estimated to have at least 45% of the market and maybe as much as 50% ; Wellfleet Communications Inc is thought to be number two , with anything from 12% to 20% , with 3Com Corp third at around 10% , but in the hub sector alone , SynOptics Communications Inc is thought to have about 33% and Cabletron Systems Inc 15% , although the latter says the two are neck and neck . |
| 24 | Artificial fertilizer application , associated with higher yielding wheat , is also now a feature of the system and is required to cope with the growth in population . |
| 25 | For instance , in the third set ( subject-object nouns ) the child is presented with a sentence — such as , ‘ The duck is splashing the frog ’ — and is required to select from two pictures , one of which shows a duck splashing a frog , and the other a frog splashing a duck . |
| 26 | The climate sensitivity is specified by the equilibrium global-mean warming for a change in forcing ( of any origin ) equivalent to a doubling of the CO 2 concentration , T 2x , and is allowed to vary between 0.5 and 5.5°C . |
| 27 | The mortgage is fixed for three years at 10.3pc ( APR 10.9pc ) and is designed to appeal to home buyers seeking an affordable mortgage with inbuild stability of payments . |
| 28 | The mural by artist Oscar Romp is painted on the double gable end of the Il Ponte restaurant , Northgate , Headland , and is designed to act as a celebratory entrance piece to the Headland area of the town . |
| 29 | Describes and explains the Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order 1987 which supersedes the 1972 Use Classes Order and is designed to cater for major changes in the nature and geographical distribution of economic activity . |
| 30 | The Oxford Wordpower Dictionary heads the list this year and is designed to compete at intermediate level with the Longman Active Study and Cobuild Students Dictionary . |