Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a Harris poll conducted in February indicates that support for the arts is up significantly , now over 60% as opposed to 48% in 1974 . |
| 2 | Erm , I think it 's important for us all to remember what community arts is about . |
| 3 | That 's what community development is about , that 's what community arts is about . |
| 4 | The prejudice of several centuries is about to take a tumble . |
| 5 | One of Bertha Hobbs 's kids is down with a fever again . ’ |
| 6 | FRANK SINATRA : ‘ The Reprise Years ’ ( Reprise ) ol' rheumy eyes is back with a collection of his finest croons , on the label he founded , including ‘ I 've Got You Under My Skin ’ , ‘ Strangers In The Night ’ and , of course , ‘ My Way ’ — out now |
| 7 | For them the role of victim of white gangs is over . |
| 8 | You said that the age of fixed goals is over ; they are things of the industrial past . |
| 9 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 10 | Dropping hankies is out and we can hardly leer at gentlemen from behind our fans , can we ? |
| 11 | And what a lovely place Portsmouth is I must say went to the gentlemen 's on , the toilet at the seafront last night and as I left , I looked at the sign that said er , please adjust your dress before you leave . |
| 12 | Although the relationship between Japan and the ASEAN nations is by and large cordial but cautious , considerable fears of a new Japanese imperialism , economic if not territorial , exist in Southeast Asia . |
| 13 | " Hamish , oh I am so pleased to see you " , he said , " I have got a very important job tonight , one of my clients is over from France with his wife and daughter and I am entertaining them . |
| 14 | The Izmailovo , which has 5,000 bedrooms is about to undergo a three-year , £20m refurbishment to enable it to compete in the international business and tourism travel market . |
| 15 | schools is off flip the skips . |
| 16 | ‘ This 'll spoil his day ’ means ‘ We 'll kill him ’ , and ‘ God ’ means ‘ A ton of bricks is about to fall on you ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I hope to be back at work before the three months is up , ’ he said , ‘ and if all goes well , I hope to be back playing football next season . ’ |
| 18 | A high tech fashion firm promising higher quality and snappier designs is about to create fifty jobs in an Ayrshire unemployment blackspot . |
| 19 | The amount that banks hold in cash and operational balances is up to them and depends on the demand for cash that they expect from their customers . |
| 20 | If sending in the bombers or trained assassins is out , what else does that leave ? |
| 21 | If sending in the bombers or the trained assassins is out , what else does that leave ? |
| 22 | ‘ For instance , 7.30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays is a good time to go out with the TV detector van because EastEnders is on . |
| 23 | Then she said " Come on downstairs , Eastenders is on , " so we went down and then I was all right . |
| 24 | Eastenders is on . |
| 25 | A five-year deal to supply intermediate products to one of the major chemicals companies is about to be signed , according to Brian Hoare , finance director of its parent group Suter . |
| 26 | Immediately after his generalization about " " eelde " " he returns to the first person plural — " " owre olde lemes " " ( 3886 ) — and within two lines is back to " " ik " " . |
| 27 | A comprehensive list of these functions is out of place in this overview , but a glance through the following paragraphs should provide a general impression of LIFESPAN 's functional range . |
| 28 | This tertiary level of care is the most highly skilled and complex to provide ; residents are very vulnerable when so much of their daily lives is out of their hands ( Richards , M. 1987 , p. 8 ) . |
| 29 | And she said they said that as soon as the twenty eight days is up there is to go into but but they 've got to take pot luck wherever the Olner estate anywhere . |
| 30 | Twenty one days is up and that burk keeping the money off till I get paid . |