Example sentences of "and [is] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CCLGF meets six or seven times a year and is chaired by the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 2 | The Group was formed on the initiative of Financial Public Relations Ltd and is chaired by ex-MP Sir Robin Chichester-Clark of head-hunters The Welbeck Group . |
| 3 | The ACA committee comprises none members of the marketing and advertising industry and is chaired by ICI 's head of group communications Anne Ferguson . |
| 4 | The group 's membership includes SCOTVEC , SEB and SCCC and is chaired by HMCI Douglas Osler . |
| 5 | The Advisory Committee on Business and Environment comprises 25 senior executives from some of Britain 's largest companies and is chaired by John Collins , the chair of Shell UK . |
| 6 | Mountain Equipment is marketing a ‘ Green Cotton ’ shirt ( £30 ) which uses cotton grown without the use of pesticides and defoliants and is manufactured in a less environmentally damaging way . |
| 7 | The ratio of fast twitch to slow twitch fibres varies between individuals and is determined by heredity . |
| 8 | This basic model postulates that the current price ( P o ) is a present value and is determined by the discounted future income that the share earns . |
| 9 | Ceausescu 's aim in issuing such a threat was probably to frighten Hungary , but Romania already has the delivery system in the form of Soviet built Scud missiles and is believed to be developing its own missile with the help of Egypt and Iraq . |
| 10 | His family woollen business was founded in 1541 and is believed to be the oldest family business of its kind in the world . |
| 11 | It will allow instant and easy access , on computer screens , to the financial reports and results of 4.5m companies in over 40 countries , and is believed to be the largest integrated online database of its kind . |
| 12 | The clay-puddled cutting itself was of single-break shape and is believed to be the earliest example of the type . |
| 13 | Maria Elena Aparicio was sentenced to seven years and is believed to be held in a women 's prison in Havana . |
| 14 | Our most famous memorial is the Lambarde Brass which is unique and is believed to be of Flemish workmanship . |
| 15 | Currently , the Navy runs half its school at Aldershot and the other half at Devonport and is believed to be keen , for financial reasons if nothing else , to re-locate on to one site . |
| 16 | Cholesterol nucleation is preceded by vesicle aggregation and fusion , and is believed to be an initial step in the formation of cholesterol gall stones . |
| 17 | The remaining population of the " white ghost " dolphin , as it is known locally , now stands at between 150 and 350 , and is believed to be falling fast under pressure from pollution resulting largely from intensive construction work on the massive new offshore Chek Lap Kok island airport . |
| 18 | The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 . |
| 19 | Transport Secretary John MacGregor , MP for Norfolk South , has been approached by the family of Bondone of his constituents and is believed to be making his own contact with Sir Nicholas . |
| 20 | Shame , his novel of Pakistan , was short-listed for the Booker Prize and is believed by many to be his finest work . |
| 21 | The water enters through a drilled spray bar and is filtered through Cypripack plastic filter medium under a perforated support tray . |
| 22 | The tank measures 24″ × 12″ × 15″ and is filtered by a Fluval 2 internal filter . |
| 23 | The guest turns the pages and is perplexed by some of the photos . |
| 24 | This depends mainly on the availability of resources , i.e. manpower , spares , tools , etc. , and is interrelated with ‘ what to do ? ’ |
| 25 | The kitchen is thus three steps down from the living-room floor level and is paved with the same material — York stone slabs approximately 60mm ( 2–1/2in ) thick , below which a low-pressure piped hot water central-heating system is installed . |
| 26 | Retail , which refuses to disclose the terms of the deal , was set up last year with £10m of City capital and is headed by Malcolm Parkinson , the former B & Q managing director . |
| 27 | The National Democratic Congress party , which has six seats and is headed by Mr Nicholas Brathwaite , is tipped to win the general election . |
| 28 | ICL Enterprises , in Winnersh , Berkshire , employs 900 staff and is headed by David Berry . |
| 29 | The working party was set up by the Church 's Communications Committee and is headed by Canon Colin Semper , former Head of Religious Radio at the BBC . |
| 30 | Their Taipei office in Taiwan opened in 1982 , and is headed by Rita Wong . |