Example sentences of "is [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC is struggling to come up with a clear , forthright statement on its Unix policy for a worldwide briefing it 's planning on holding February 10 . |
| 2 | In many regions , industry is permitted to connect up to the domestic sewage system to discharge its toxic waste . |
| 3 | The officers are backed up by four police cars whose job is to try to keep up with the train on nearby roads and help catch the faster of the trespassers fleeing from their colleagues on the trackside . |
| 4 | The company is also to change its name from Merrydown Wine to Merrydown plc and is applying to move up from the USM to the main market in January . |
| 5 | A second raffle is expected to notch up about the same total . |
| 6 | The Portadown midfielder is expected to link up with the Glens following agreement on a fee between managers Ronnie McFall and Robert Strain . |
| 7 | One scratchcard in six is expected to come up with a prize between £1 and £100 . |
| 8 | IBM Corp is still not ready with a full scale disk array for its mainframes , but next week , the company is expected to come out with the new 3390-9 disk drives , offering three times the capacity of the 3390-3 — could be as much as 60Gb on the As , 100Gb on the Bs ( CI No 2,046 ) — but they will be somewhat slower than the existing ones : a new 3990 controller that will be able to talk to disks that do not exist yet is expected to follow later , probably in the autumn . |
| 9 | NEW Environment Minister John Gummer is expected to speak out against the ordination of women priests when he visits Cheshire this month . |
| 10 | Ardiles is believed to be top of Spurs chairman Alan Sugar 's wanted list to take over as manager and is expected to fly back from a holiday in Argentina to discuss a possible move later this week . |
| 11 | Pr ( partner ) John Shaw is resolved to proceed along with a Mr. Wildhagen … |
| 12 | Activity time-out : the child is simply barred from joining in an enjoyable activity , but still allowed to observe it — for example , having disrupted a board game , she is made to sit out of the game . |
| 13 | Where a decision is made to remit back to the licensing board , the interlocutor should include any specification or modification required under subs . |
| 14 | 4 The means whereby a word is made to stand out in an utterance . |
| 15 | A bookmaker is refusing to pay out on a jackpot claim for more than than two million pounds . |
| 16 | On page 10 , the report stated : ‘ Two days after the downing of Pan Am 103 , the Iranian embassy in Beirut receives a phone call from the Interior Ministry in Teheran , intercepted , during which the ambassador is told to hand over to the PFLP — GC the remaining funds , size and scope not specified , and is being congratulated for the ‘ successful operation ’ . ’ |
| 17 | Weather for the Fox F M area : After some early evening sunshine , the night will start dry ; cloud and some showery rain is going to spread in from the south er to parts of the region by dawn . |
| 18 | We 're just at the beginning of it and this is going to go on till the end of April or May now , it 'll be like this . |
| 19 | ‘ so you really think , ’ she said , ‘ that that poor little chap is going to zoom in from the clouds and wipe us all out ? ’ |
| 20 | IT 'S GOING TO BE A VERY INTERESTING RACE , AND IT LOOKS as if IMPROV FROM LOTUS — WHICH REALLY GRABS WINDOWS BY THE THROAT — IS GOING TO GET OFF TO A FLYING START . |
| 21 | Erm I think this whole issue is going to boil down to the your assumptions on migration . |
| 22 | Not every idea we have is going to end up as a full research project . |
| 23 | I think perhaps I 'd put that another way , but I do think there 's a definite sense in which change is going to come up through the colleges . |
| 24 | Ah erm well , Chairman , I I think that this is something that 's going to cut , as far as Hambledon 's got concerns , is going to come up in the erm in the next debate , certainly , erm , the erm , the issue of erm whether policy should be expressed in terms of principle and criteria , or erm area and a district as being a dilemma erm to Hambledon , erm , it feels it 's erm erm not being able to support the policy as defined , because ultimately the Council would object to a new settlement in Hambledon . |
| 25 | One of these days Sam is going to come up against a good old time proper door . |
| 26 | ‘ The Shiah , for example , or at least the ones in Iran , believe that the Twelfth Imam — who disappeared in mysterious circumstances over a thousand years ago — is going to come back with a huge army and take over the world . ’ |
| 27 | And really I 'm going to start off and then Liz is going to come in on a particular aspect of this . |
| 28 | In an area with around 250 cm of rain a year , it seems clear that if the hillsides are not replanted then silt is going to rush down into the river , through the sluice gates of the dam and into the new land , where irrigation canals might become seriously clogged up , and the fertility of the soil lowered . |
| 29 | Other women in the narrative may not be friends , but are always constructed as rivals for male attention : ‘ She does not consider herself a beauty and this element is used to play off against the beauty of the other woman ( women ) … . ’ |
| 30 | But Tommy Johnson is aiming to step back on the goal trail . |