Example sentences of "is [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is extensive areas of woodland , many commercial plantations which can become the starting point for accommodating the new village . |
| 2 | The Hungarian government is inviting tenders for a project to computerise the social security system . |
| 3 | The Hungarian government is inviting tenders for a project to computerise the social security system . |
| 4 | The South African government is inviting tenders for two cellular telephone licences it plans to award , with a mid-June deadline for applications : the successful bidders will have to pay the government about $33m upfront for the licence and 5% of turnover in annual licence fees , the Financial Times reports ; Cable & Wireless is expected to bid for one of the licences in partnership with the local M-Net pay television station . |
| 5 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 6 | The Scottish Enterprise Foundation , a consortium of companies and public bodies formed last November to encourage new business in Scotland , is inviting students with bright ideas to submit them to a panel of entrepreneurs and experts . |
| 7 | The British Architectural Library is inviting nominations for the annual Sir Bannister Fletcher Awards of the Authors ' Club for the best book published on architecture or the fine arts during 1991 . |
| 8 | The molecular Spectroscopy Group is inviting applications for the 1992 Harry Willis prize for analytical spectroscopy . |
| 9 | In those circumstances whether the accused is dishonest falls outwith s.2(1) but within the principles discussed below . |
| 10 | The central dome is 180 feet above ground , supported on gigantic pendentives which in turn stem from the four semi-circular arches and enormous , ground-standing piers . |
| 11 | Today 's stage nine is 120 miles from Wrexham to Rotherham and the Milk Race comes to Liverpool city centre tomorrow , the first riders set to arrive at around 2.30pm. finishing line for the stage is situated at the top of the cobbled William Brown Street . |
| 12 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 13 | The current conversion price for the $114m 8% debentures outstanding is $29.75 per share of class A common stock , for the $285m 11.50% debentures is 23.25 shares of class A stock per $1,000 principal . |
| 14 | The ‘ Pages per File ’ should be entered as a decimal number ; note that 0 should be used to indicate that no file splitting is to take place and that the default is 500 pages per file . |
| 15 | The target is 500 schemes by 1993 , with a switch of emphasis towards small- and medium-sized companies . |
| 16 | The target is 500 schemes by 1993 , with a switch of emphasis towards small- and medium-sized companies . |
| 17 | For a given load the maximum operating speed is referred to as the " pull-out " rate , so in this example the pull-out rate for a load of 0.2 Nm is 500 steps per second . |
| 18 | If the load torque is 0.5 Nm then the pull-out rate is 500 steps per second and the load is positioned in approximately 1000/500 = 2 seconds . |
| 19 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 20 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 21 | So we say its average speed is fifty miles per hour . |
| 22 | Is that Friends of the Earth ? |
| 23 | Or is that nights at the pub |
| 24 | In the United States the , one of the impacts of federalism and the size of the United States and its diversity , is that politicians in America are all local . |
| 25 | Cash income , which is total receipts minus total trading spending , is a better indication , said Sir Hector . |
| 26 | Now it is eight hours by bus along a narrow asphalt road . |
| 27 | No one has told them that your hotel is eight miles from the nearest town , which in fact is only an overgrown village . |
| 28 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |
| 29 | Another paint business is liquid coatings for plastics — mainly car parts — and Morton has a European position in this through its acquisition of the Dr Renger company . |
| 30 | I looked in a table of isotopes and found that the concentration of deuterium is 1.5 parts of 10 000 ( parts of ordinary water ) . |