Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adv] [subord] " 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 | And Mary Reveley is now considering withdrawing the horse from today 's race . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | About how much of Scotland is more than 10 km from a railway ? |
| 6 | Trainer Francois Doumen is clearly considering plundering more foreign prizes after contesting next week 's Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 7 | The cobbler 's song in Hassan is there because man invented a shoe . |
| 8 | FIFA is also considering bringing in sudden-death penalty shoot-outs in drawn games in the knockout stages . |
| 9 | NEW MAN John Bryan is there as Fergie hits the social scene yet again |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Fourteen years later Davey is just as dedicated . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | It has a couple of shops , bars and cafés but Malcesine is less than eight miles away , easily reached by local bus . |
| 14 | THE councillor who attacked a controversial version of Swan Lake is now considering seeing the performance . |
| 15 | Everett has a snappy , high-tech look with lots of smart facilities ; Alameda is more than 40 years old , and looks it . |
| 16 | As Chris Llewellyn Smith , who takes over as director at CERN next year , points out , the unstarted LHC is less than $3 billion from completion all told , while the SSC , despite being $2 billion in the hole , still has $8 billion to go . |
| 17 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 18 | And Belfield is less than 20 minutes frequent bus service to the city centre . |
| 19 | The NRA is now considering prosecuting Carnon , but the issue is politically-sensitive , since the company runs the last functioning tin mine in Cornwall , at South Crofty . |
| 20 | ‘ Tim is precisely as he always is . |
| 21 | West Germany is now considering stockpiling key metals . |
| 22 | The station at Dieppe is less than half-a-mile from the ferry port and is well-signposted . |
| 23 | The EC is now considering adopting the " green list " . |
| 24 | ‘ London is just as I left it , ’ railed Audubon resentfully to his friend , the Reverend Bachman , ‘ a Vast Artificial area , as well covered with humbug , as are our Fine Lands and old fields with Broom grass . |
| 25 | The Minister is probably aware that the additional cost of living in inner London is more than £4,000 per year and in outer London more than £3,500 per year . |
| 26 | A number of times during my weekend visit to Ireland , Bono hints that a move to London is all but inevitable . |
| 27 | Around 70% of the area 's population and business are linked to digital exchanges and BT is already considering upgrading the remainder so that soon anyone in the Highlands can be ISDN-linked . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State for Wales is currently considering this proposal . |
| 29 | Lou Macari is apparently considering leaving out striker Charlie Nicholas in favour of an extra midfielder Brian O'Neil . |
| 30 | ‘ The fate of McMullen is all but certain . |