Example sentences of "is [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knutsford is situated some 16 miles to the south of Manchester . |
| 2 | Llyn Brenig is situated some 35 miles form Colwyn Bay , and is well worth a visit . |
| 3 | The Island of Taiwan is situated several hundred miles off the Chinese mainland , west of Hong Kong ; Japan lies a few hours ’ plane ride north-west while the Philippines rest a similar distance southwards . |
| 4 | After the award Mrs Green 's solicitor Raymond Donn , who is handling another 60 cases involving dead and injured servicemen , said people should not be frightened of claiming from the Ministry of Defence . |
| 5 | Iveco Ford is to lose another 100 jobs . |
| 6 | Christer Petersson , who was acquitted of the 1986 murder of the Swedish Prime Minister , Mr Olof Palme , is demanding two million kronor ( £213,000 ) compensation for the 10 months he spent in jail , news reports said yesterday . |
| 7 | Right , the production cost is say six hundred pounds , right ? |
| 8 | THE SOVIET UNION is employing 900 000 scientists and engineers on research and development — 200 000 more than the United States . |
| 9 | Columba , a neighbour of the giant Ninian field , is located some 105 miles east of the Shetland Islands . |
| 10 | The British government is paying about £16 million to modernise Greenham Common and Molesworth to take cruise missiles , and is contributing some 220 security guards . |
| 11 | The food and service is costing eight hundred pounds alone . |
| 12 | A small but at least regular amount of funding has also been allocated ; for example , the Pushkin Museum is to receive 200 million roubles . |
| 13 | So a car developing 30 horsepower at 60 miles an hour is releasing some 90 kW of heat continuously into the air . |
| 14 | The muscles that connect the two bones are clearly under a colossal amount of tension and this is pulling these two bones together . |
| 15 | The National Westminster Bank is to axe four thousand jobs . |
| 16 | JAGUAR is to axe another 200 jobs days after launching a £2 million TV ad campaign . |
| 17 | British Telecom is to axe twenty-five thousand jobs over the next year partly because of the recession . |
| 18 | Britain 's second biggest brewer , Courage , is to axe seven hundred jobs after an extensive review of its operations . |
| 19 | I would therefore be grateful to learn from Benoit Rudloff , who is buying these 1700 ploughs or , as I suspect , respectfully suggest to Mr Rudloff that maybe has had picked up some duff information over the past two years ! ! |
| 20 | Who is feeding five thousand kids |
| 21 | It 's a fairly low risk erm threat at the moment , air strikes are cheap er they 're not particularly dangerous whether they 're effective or not is another matter , er and there 's no immediate come back on the domestic scene because no one is expecting any one state to be the saviour in that particular situation . |
| 22 | The right hon. Gentleman quotes job losses , but he fails to mention Tesco 's plans for 5,000 new jobs over the next year , Safeway 's plans for 2,000 jobs , Nissan 's plans for 600 new jobs in the north-east , and the fact that Toyota is providing another 3,000 jobs in Derbyshire . |
| 23 | the erm the displayed decoded it 's actually mounted next to the kit and all we 'll do is take twenty four volts out , volts out , they 'll take the , take the data off the kit itself and then just bring twenty four volts out |
| 24 | Er it 's now in this latest manual that 's just been published , is saying twenty five percent and clearly er the road achieves that so there is significant benefit as a result er in in that measure of of noise . |
| 25 | The WSPA said that the demand for bear body parts is threatening all five species living in Asia with extinction . |
| 26 | A second group , Methods and Modelling for Interactive System Design ( MMISD ) is running two one day workshops on the following : |
| 27 | British Rail tell us that the Glasgow to Brighton train which was due at Oxford at half past five , is running forty five minutes late this evening , and the six twenty four Manchester to London Paddington train is five minutes late . |
| 28 | Barclaycard staff have been meeting to decide what action to take over the news that the firm is cutting four hundred jobs . |
| 29 | Computervision Corp is cutting another 700 jobs to take its payroll to 5,000 . |
| 30 | Pyramid Technology Corp is cutting some 110 jobs , about 10% of the total , and will take a restructuring charge of between $22m and $24m against figures for its fourth quarter ended September 30 . |