Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The government of Ecuador is seriously considering sending its armed forces on a major exercise in the Galapagos Islands .
2 Gazza is slowly but surely learning the Italian language , making it work for him .
3 Rex is there and Woodbine is there .
4 And Mary Reveley is now considering withdrawing the horse from today 's race .
5 Pont Royal is conveniently accessible for the long weekend away : the flight time from Heathrow to Marseilles is less than two hours , with the resort only half an hour from the airport .
6 work permit ? — that 's bull : Pedersen ( joining Oldham ) , Bohinen ( Forest ) and Nilsen ( Sheff Utd ) are all leaving norway for england in these days and Nilsen is just as Frank not a regular in our World Cup squad .
7 " Because the Children 's Act in Scotland is just that bit different to England . "
8 About how much of Scotland is more than 10 km from a railway ?
9 Nurse del Puablo is widely and justly celebrated for her skilled hands , hot thighs and soft lips , her pretty belly , bad ass and good tits .
10 And we must remember our interest in Livesey is only that he might give us a lead to the young girl 's killer . ’
11 Well if there is the south coast along here and Devo C Cornwall is there and Devon is here and you get the w the Bristol Channel going up here and then you c the coast coming down here and there 's Wales is here right ?
12 To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) .
13 Trainer Francois Doumen is clearly considering plundering more foreign prizes after contesting next week 's Cheltenham Gold Cup .
14 He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party .
15 The cobbler 's song in Hassan is there because man invented a shoe .
16 FIFA is also considering bringing in sudden-death penalty shoot-outs in drawn games in the knockout stages .
17 In case you had n't figured it out already , or have been vacationing in the Amazon rain forest , ACE is well and truly dead .
18 He was certainly not purporting to compile a representative list of ‘ extra-hazardous ’ activities — though one of the fundamental problems about Rylands v. Fletcher is perhaps that the law has never made up its mind whether the rule is aimed at such activities .
19 But whereas TMTSF is more or less planar , in BEDT-TTF methylene groups ( CH 2 ) at the ends of the molecule lie out of the main plane .
20 NEW MAN John Bryan is there as Fergie hits the social scene yet again
21 This development on the green belt of Ipswich is partly because of the Conservative Government withering away the planning powers of borough councils , who in the past would have dismissed such a planning application as this , on the grounds that housing and industry should not mix and that it is desirable to have a green buffer zone between the two .
22 The interest of UE is simply that it follows Gaius , and keeps to the basic wordings .
23 Fourteen years later Davey is just as dedicated .
24 A new report from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food estimates that the average intake of dioxins in the gut in the UK is less than one quarter of the World Health Organisation 's ( WHO ) Tolerable Daily Intake ( TDI ) .
25 It has a couple of shops , bars and cafés but Malcesine is less than eight miles away , easily reached by local bus .
26 So far , China is more or less on course .
27 Mark has two ways of emphasising the fact that Jesus is fully and uniquely endowed with the Holy Spirit in his role as Son and Servant of Yahweh , who brings in the kingly rule of God in the end-time .
28 Sam is physically and mentally disabled and also blind .
29 With its declination of 63 degrees south , Acrux is more or less circumpolar from much of South Africa and Australia , and never sets over New Zealand .
30 The early stages of the rise of Venice arc obscure and ill-documented ; but when it comes into the light of day it is ruled already by a duke or doge popularly elected , yet normally chosen from , and dependent on , the great families of the Rialto , the chief island of the archipelago on which Venice is crazily and romantically constructed .
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