Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These criticisms seem valid and if NAB is to cope successfully with its daunting task of planning public sector higher education and negotiating with the University Grants Committee , then it would benefit from having more academic expertise and more representation from industry and the professions .
2 But where , on the one hand , the hierarchy of the chivalry is systematically catalogued , from dukes to mere gentlemen , the commonalty is differentiated only to the extent that a passing reference to ‘ the chief of theis folkes , as the substantiall marchauntes , the welthie grasiers and farmers ’ acknowledges the existence of sub-species .
3 THE SENIOR Strathclyde education official who faced calls for his dismissal after linking ‘ genetic factors ’ to the school performance of black and Asian children is to retire early on Friday .
4 If you have cavity wall insulation as well , the only way you can test for its effects is to go away for a while , to a house without sources of formaldehyde .
5 A plea to downgrade Darlington so it could attract more Government aid is to go ahead despite an earlier warning that it could backfire .
6 The Spanish Airforce is to go ahead with plans to build a firing range near Anchuranas , 200km south of Madrid .
7 The Bush administration is to go ahead with plans to cleanse the environment of traces of lead , which can cause mental and physical retardation in children .
8 Alaska is to go ahead with a controversial plan to reduce wolf numbers in a bid to restock caribou herds .
9 MARTI Caine is to go ahead with plans for her role as the Red Queen in Snow White at Cardiff 's New Theatre — even if cancer strikes her again .
10 The Kings Arms pub at Great Stainton is to go ahead with alterations to a small , historic bar .
11 If production is to go ahead at all there has to be some minimum level of cooperation between management and workers , and workers require some autonomy if their initiative is to be counted upon .
12 The party is to go ahead at the end of August .
13 And it is becoming clear that the company will need to raise new capital if the second phase of its development , a theme park called Disney MGM Studios-Europe , is to go ahead on schedule .
14 They may need one if Charlton 's long-awaited return to their famous old ground , after seven years in exile , is to go ahead against Portsmouth on Saturday .
15 The problem , it seems to me , is to go much beyond this .
16 THE hunt for a missing Essex teenager who disappeared after visiting a three-day pop festival at Bramshott Common last year is to go nationwide in an attempt to find her .
17 You see how hard it is to see just from the graph , from a , from
18 A NINE-year-old boy is recovering today after being mauled by a rottweiler .
19 That batch , the most intriguing of all , has included in recent months five members of the Grand Slam squad — Leonard , who is recovering well from a neck operation but must rest , Morris , Pears , Rodber and Heslop .
20 On a happier note for Parrott , his manager Phil Miller is recovering well from last week 's heart bypass operation .
21 JULIA SOMERVILLE is recovering well from the removal of a brain tumour .
22 Jimmy Magilton is recovering well from his hamstring injury .
23 BRIAN RIGNEY , the Greystones lock who was to have been an important part of Ireland 's plans for the World Cup , is recovering rapidly from his knee injury sustained in Namibia .
24 Siteke Ubial Susey is recovering rapidly from the bullet wound he received during an attack outside his house in Kinshasa in July ( see Action number 162 , page 1 ) .
25 It is likened locally to a stranded whale , and dominates the area .
26 Using DEG is equivalent to multiplying the radian value by 180/PI , but the result is calculated internally to a greater accuracy .
27 Using RAD is equivalent to multiplying the degree value by PI/180 , but the result is calculated internally to a greater accuracy .
28 competitive interest rate which is calculated separately on each separate amount drawn
29 An example , using a very simple model of the bonding in nickel(II) complexes in which the charge is calculated simply from the electronegativity difference between the central atom ( Ni ) and the attached ligand atom , is illustrated in Fig. 6.8 .
30 Lending which is longer-term is usually done on a variable-rate basis , where the interest is calculated periodically in line with changing market rates .
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