Example sentences of "and it is [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |
| 2 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 3 | Its real purpose though — which the editor guessed ( oh yes ? ) — is for strengthening ankles , and it is called a wobble board . |
| 4 | SCOTVEC considers the validation of courses and units to be a vital element in maintaining confidence in its new advanced awards and it is monitoring the process closely . |
| 5 | The company said sales so far this year are up by 16 p.c. and it is forecasting a further profit rise in 1992 . |
| 6 | Especially painted white and it is reflecting an awful lot of light . |
| 7 | This , incidentally , is the fifteenth in the series of great centenaries , held under the auspices of the Centre for Continuing Education , and it is to celebrate the death , and by that token the life and achievements , of the great English poet John Milton , who died in erm sixteen seventy four . |
| 8 | Religion has had a decisive influence on thinking about dreaming , and it is achieving a revival in many parts of the world . |
| 9 | And it is exposing the region 's old nationalisms , which in the past have been crushed by force . |
| 10 | And it is costing the company another £16 million to repair the damage to the 1,000 kiosks plundered . |
| 11 | And it is taping every word that I say ? |
| 12 | BA technical experts have already carried out an inspection and it is believed the east Belfast airport is upgrading facilities to deal with an extra 100,000 passengers next year . |
| 13 | They will be open to the public from the end of 1993 , and it is hoped the local farming community will benefit from demonstrations at the farms . |
| 14 | The last time such powers were used was to keep hippies away from Stonehenge and it is hoped the move will deter travellers from trying to camp at Castlemorton again . |
| 15 | The unit is to return to Darlington next year for further checks and it is hoped the scheme will be extended to younger women in the future . |
| 16 | There is a consideration on one side , and it is said the consideration on the other is the agreement itself : if that were so there could never be a nudum pactum . |
| 17 | Quantum Corp , Milpitas does not believe its disk drives infringe Rodime Plc patents and it is counter-suing the Scottish company , asking the US Court for the District of Minnesota to declare the patent not infringed and anyway unenforceable . |
| 18 | You can derive an enormous amount of satisfaction from restoring old frames and returning them to their former glory , and it is astonishing the number of attractive frames that are discarded when someone changes the colour scheme of their home or sorts through their attic and throws out something that is battered but still beautiful . |
| 19 | Er , next is resolution seven which is an ordinary resolution set out in the notice of the meeting , and it is to authorize the directors to amend the company 's employee share schemes in the manner set out in the circular dated eighteenth of April nineteen ninety to members of the company . |
| 20 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
| 21 | It is totally unreasonable and the company knows it and it is making a fool of the County Council , which should be prosecuting . |
| 22 | All these three administer substantially the same law , which , by the time of Edward I , is already called Common Law , because it is a law common to the whole of England ; and it is becoming a fairly definite body of rules , capable of growth and expansion in various directions , but still with well-marked boundaries which can not be transgressed . |
| 23 | We prefer OS/2 , because it 's a better operating system , and it is becoming the preferred choice for large commercial users , but Windows is most popular for the standalone . ’ |
| 24 | Upjohn has at all times contended that Halcion is safe and effective and that any errors in the presentation of its material to the Licensing Authority were unintended , and it is suing the BBC for libel . |
| 25 | Intel Corp has decided that its 1989 acquisition of universal communications processor manufacturer Jupiter Technology Inc ( UX No 240 ) was a mistake , and it is letting the company go in a management buyout backed by a private investment group . |
| 26 | The princess , looking tanned and relaxed , led her sons into a waiting minibus when the party arrived in London and it is expected the boys will join their father this weekend . |
| 27 | The news of her latest pregnancy was broken in November , and it is expected the new baby will make a public debut on her Good Morning BBC1 programme , perhaps next week . |
| 28 | it is the yellow route and it is to provide a bypass . |
| 29 | ( 3 ) Even if the nature of these qualities of pleasure and pain are themselves unproblematic , it is said that what people want ( or want to avoid ) is not necessarily any kind of private experience , but just as often objective states of affairs in the public world , and it is thought no less reasonable to take account of wants of this sort than those for private experiences . |
| 30 | And it is thought the boss did a ‘ Paddy Ashdown ’ by coming clean before the affair was revealed in a newspaper . |