Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The government of Ecuador is seriously considering sending its armed forces on a major exercise in the Galapagos Islands . |
| 32 | Some species have been almost exterminated , e.g. Per.sea theobromifolia ( Lauraceae ) , formerly the ‘ mahogany ’ of Ecuador is now known from only 12 trees . |
| 33 | Waorani Indian land in eastern Ecuador is under potential threat from the construction of an oil road and pipeline by the Dallas-based Maxus company . |
| 34 | The effect off the coast of Ecuador is twofold : first , the waters off the Ecuadorian coast ( a few degrees north and south of the equator ) are unusually cold — indeed , so powerful is the upwelling that a belt of this oddly cold water extends west from Ecuador for nearly 3,000 miles . |
| 35 | Local Stigmatic is about two Cockney thugs who beat up an actor in the pub because ‘ fame is the first disgrace because God knows who you are . ’ |
| 36 | The symmetric multi-processing ( SMP ) development project between IBM and Groupe Bull SA is reportedly on target , and products should arrive toward the end of 1993 . |
| 37 | And Cap Gemini Sogeti SA is already suffering from the fact that so much of its own and Hoskyns Group Plc 's business is done in the IBM mainframe world . |
| 38 | IBM Corp has launched a version of OSF/1 , but only in the ultra low-volume mainframe version of AIX , but Groupe Bull SA is quite happy to add bits of Foundation technology to its Berkeley Unix brought up to Unix System V.3.2 level , and Hewlett-Packard Co is taking the same tack with HP-UX . |
| 39 | The oasis of Bahriyah is over 200 miles from Cairo . |
| 40 | My hon. and learned Friend is entirely correct ; I endorse his remarks . |
| 41 | Since AFDC is specifically directed at the relief of poverty , one would expect a correlation between the level of poverty in a State and the number of recipients there . |
| 42 | While we do not wish to give the impression that the Minor Project is insignificant , the Major Project is clearly recognised as the most powerful thrust of the ESSE/L Project . |
| 43 | You have to understand why Larry Parks runs live miles to work , why Fiona Isaacs is always smiling and Barry Greystone is always failing . |
| 44 | His eyes searched Meredith 's anxiously , as he tried to get his tongue around the word she 'd taught him . |
| 45 | Preston Mill at East Linton is admirably preserved in working order . |
| 46 | In a recent advertisement for a house sale the same village of West Linton is now only 11 miles from Edinburgh . |
| 47 | Then she thought : But he 's only here because Bert is just through that wall there . |
| 48 | The DoH is clearly still worried about possible breakdowns in the agreements and potential hospital bed-blocking , a concern shared by many professional groups . |
| 49 | The DoH is also launching new practical advice for SSDs . |
| 50 | Social workers may be forgiven for feeling the DoH is continually shifting the goal posts on community care implementation . |
| 51 | Moreton 's son is 11 , Furley 's just two . |
| 52 | Jeff 's just a little late in calling , that 's all . ’ |
| 53 | Jeff is now recovering from his injury , and is organising the local Great Yarmouth half marathon which will take place on 25 July . |
| 54 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 55 | Her need of the steadying , mature containment of the Ryans is as clear as ice water , for there is much in her professional and personal past that has had to be relinquished . |
| 56 | Brian Lawrie is also contesting a finding that he was negligent over the loss of more than £18 million by the local authority in the affair . |
| 57 | Like Brillat-Savarin 's famous fondue and the fonduta of Piedmont , the fondue of Franche-Comté is really a cream of eggs and cheese ( not , be it noted , scrambled eggs and cheese ) and has been rejected , I fancy , as being unauthentic either because it is more difficult to cook correctly than the Swiss version or because it is the cheese purveyors rather than the egg-marketeers who have been on the job . |
| 58 | Where are they now corner … in the wake of the current ORANGE JUICE resurgence , we hear that former bassist DAVE MCCLYMONT is currently employed making rice balls in an ethnic restaurant of some description in Sydney , while MALCOLM ROSS works in a hospital shop in Southend selling bottles of Lucozade to visiting relatives but still gives guitar lessons in the evenings . |
| 59 | Then come down to Wally 's tomorrow afternoon |
| 60 | Markham 's certainly not a churchman , though of course the Cumbermounds are the leading lay family in the county . |