Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On minute one one four , I 'm using my privilege as a chair to hang on to that ; the fact that the Poly are to hold a conference on health and housing in the new year . |
| 2 | British Rail are to remain the employer of the British Transport Police for the immediate future , in order to ensure that the British Transport Police will continue to police the whole of the restructured railway er a an order amending the British Transport Police Force Scheme in nineteen sixty three will be laid before Parliament shortly . |
| 3 | Engineers from British Rail are to visit the site at Wylam Hill , near Thompson Street East , in a bid to improve safety . |
| 4 | BRITISH Rail are to develop an electric version of the 200 km/h high-speed train ( HST ) , which runs its Inter-City 125 services . |
| 5 | The Test and County Cricket Board are to take no further action against the Worcestershire cricketer Richard Stemp following a positive drugs test on the player this summer . |
| 6 | The board are recommending a 10% increase in dividend to 7.4 pence . |
| 7 | ‘ The board are extending a long-standing by-law which prevents a player who has rejected an international invitation from performing at club level during the summer period , ’ said Ashby . |
| 8 | ‘ The board are extending a long-standing by-law which prevents a player who has rejected an international invitation from performing at club level during the summer period , ’ said Ashby . |
| 9 | The values of the in either case are called the " spectrum " of relaxation times although it must be stressed that the values have no structural significance . |
| 10 | 7.1 Where gaps in provision are identified the council permits centres to submit Locally Devised Modules . |
| 11 | If time and budget are limited the release may have to do everything and indeed it can be usefully sent to all the media which might be interested in the story . |
| 12 | With daily marking to the market , the capital gains and losses on an index futures contract are realized every day and the owner has no discretion over their timing , that is , shifting capital gains and losses between tax years . |
| 13 | The main objects of this alignment are to achieve a short wheel base , and a fairly steep gradient . |
| 14 | ICL Plc and Microsoft Corp are to make a ‘ strategic announcement ’ on ‘ a number of joint initiatives ’ this Wednesday : these comprise of joint development programmes on systems integration ; ICL 's commitment to Windows NT ; and ICL 's commitment to workgroup computing , using the new Workgroup for Windows . |
| 15 | A FAMILY who discovered that their centuries-old manor stands over ‘ the lost palace ’ of the last Welsh prince are fighting a desperate battle to keep their home . |
| 16 | It occurs in Henry IV , Part I. Falstaff and the Prince are having a high old time by pretending in turn to be the King chastising Hal for his association with Falstaff . |
| 17 | QUEEN Elizabeth Country Park are presenting an all day lecture on the Attractions of East Hampshire . |
| 18 | Marwell Zoological Park are hosting the Pet Corner where you can meet face to face those animals that do NOT make the perfect pets . |
| 19 | The AIMS of the CUCGA are to sustain the position and influence of Convocations and similar bodies as continuing but independent constituent parts of their institutions ; to promote the status and development of Higher Education ; to provide a focus and forum for the expression of graduate opinion on matters relating to education ; and to foster the development and use of graduate bodies for the support and enhancement of universities , polytechnics and equivalent institutions . |
| 20 | English Heritage are pursuing a programme of general renovation to the entire property . |
| 21 | ENVIRONMENTALISTS opposed to Darlington 's planned cross town route are celebrating a Department of Transport announcement which they argue will weaken the case for the road . |
| 22 | Sales of mainframe software also increased slightly , he says , because although some clients are downsizing , the majority are freezing the size of their mainframes , and either running applications on Unix boxes or investing their money on mainframe software with more functionality . |
| 23 | Notice how , with this change in weight distribution , the nose is closer to the water , and the rails next to the mast foot are engaging the water , which slows the turn |
| 24 | Open Software Foundation founder members Hitachi Ltd and Hewlett-Packard Co are to enhance the organisation 's one-year-old Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 25 | Open Software Foundation founder members Hitachi Ltd and Hewlett-Packard Co are to enhance the organisation 's one-year-old Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) . |
| 26 | Apart from the now well established Media Mind competition ( won this year by Leo Burnett Ltd ) , Express are running a monthly series of training days for media executives which are proving popular and successful — and will again be sponsoring the IPA Media Award designed to encourage excellence in media planning and buying . |
| 27 | In the USA , Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Rochester University are following an alternative approach called ‘ inertial fusion ’ where the deuterium and tritium fuel is in a small glass bubble which is momentarily blasted by powerful lasers , but here too practical economic fusion seems to be years in the future , and some 700 million dollars may be needed to upgrade the facility and keep the research moving forward . |
| 28 | ENTERPRISING students at California 's Stanford University are making a mint from high technology by designing and marketing computer hardware and software . |
| 29 | With this kind of budget you do n't have to ask whether the Catering Branch are doing a good , professional job — if it was n't they would be having to organise domestic famine relief drops ! |
| 30 | Now it 's made the people , I have friends in Moscow , who are saying that they are losing a lot of their food supplies , because the West are taking the most throw down prices so that the Yugoslavs and the Romanians can get the goodies they want for us . |