Example sentences of "is [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lodsworth is three-and-a-half miles north-east of Midhurst . |
| 2 | ‘ Is that police chopper at Frankfurt Airport still standing by ? |
| 3 | Shona is Assistant Buildings Administration Officer . |
| 4 | The doors had to be forced , but photographs were taken , as is usual police practice . |
| 5 | It is eight minutes walk from the resort centre , and a ten minute stroll from the nearest bathing area . |
| 6 | Driffield , said to be the ‘ Capital of the Wolds ’ , an attractive market town , is eight miles south-west of Rudston and 17 miles away , a little higher up the coast , is Scarborough . |
| 7 | The news is up-to-the-minute snippets tom from the agency printers , hastily rewritten by junior sub-editors and thrust under the disc jockey 's nose . |
| 8 | This is friendly Borrins Moor Cave and is most easily located by following Alum Pot Beck upstream from Alum Pot to the point where it passes through a gap in the field wall . |
| 9 | A GROUP of so-called ‘ new age ’ travellers have vowed to stay in the Highlands , in spite of what they claim is continual police harassment . |
| 10 | Who will ever believe that I lay there , stripped naked , 1,000 metres up on top of a hill that is 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle ? |
| 11 | Hurling insults is some peoples way of showing they care . |
| 12 | Didcot is 53 miles west of London , 10 miles south of Oxford and is well served by British Rail with regular Inter-City 125 trains from London Paddington , Reading , Swindon , Bath , Bristol and South Wales . |
| 13 | Its declination is 53 degrees south . |
| 14 | ‘ Our hotel is 2 minutes walk from a nightclub called the Glass Bucket — I am not sure this is a v. good idea . |
| 15 | It is sensible personnel practice to have a standard letter available to employees which they can use to notify you of their situation and intentions . |
| 16 | If there is another rights issue , a possible result may be that the major shareholders will decide to take out the minority interest . |
| 17 | It is erroneous police conclusions that lead to prosecutions and to unwarranted convictions . |
| 18 | Gerry Wade is public affairs manager at IBM and chairman of the Corporate Responsibility Group , an organisation representing community affairs managers at 30 companies . |
| 19 | The author is public relations adviser to the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators ALLEN SHEPPARD , chairman and group chief executive of Grand Metropolitan , reckons that business is now becoming so complex that he needs a new core of trained administrators . |
| 20 | Perched high above the bay , this hotel is 10 minutes walk from Sorrento 's centre . |
| 21 | Patrick Collins is chief sports writer of the Mail on Sunday . |
| 22 | Patrick Collins is chief sports writer of the Mail On Sunday . |
| 23 | Patrick Collins is chief sports writer of the Mail On Sunday |
| 24 | On summary conviction , the statutory maximum penalty is six months imprisonment , with a fine of up to £1000 . |
| 25 | The centre of all of North America , including Canada , is six miles west of Balta in Pierce County , N. Dakota . |
| 26 | Our preferred philosophical basis is human rights theory rather than utilitarianism . |
| 27 | Great Sexual Disasters , The Books of Mistaikes , Knitability , is founder of the National Scrabble Championship , and is three times holder of the record for the world 's longest after-dinner speech ? |
| 28 | So this is three times table or |
| 29 | Give you a hundred and eighty which is three months worth of those . |
| 30 | There is little flecks flecks of it |