Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is little to choose between the two in terms of overall performance . |
| 2 | In refinement , equipment and build quality there 's little to choose between the two , while Vauxhall 's head-turner outshines the more expensive Corrado in more humdrum aspects , such as passenger and luggage space , and its motorway ride . |
| 3 | This is due to close by the mid-1990s and BNF is unlikely to have replacement reactors ready until several years after this . |
| 4 | It also looks at the potential profits which British Aerospace may be able to make by selling redundant sites in Llanelli , Bathgate in Glasgow and the Cowley plant in Oxford which is due to close in the 1990s . |
| 5 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 6 | He does not recognize that it is possible to alternate between the two according to the stage of industry development , and Gilbert and Strebel ( 1988 ) illustrate how some companies do outpace others in the industry on both cost and quality . |
| 7 | With hindsight it is possible to generalise about the two main directions in which this kind of sex difference research has developed since Lakoff . |
| 8 | There 's a really good train service to Brighton so it 's easy to nip between the two . |
| 9 | It is easy to distinguish between the two markets — the discount market has as one of its participants the Bank of England , participating in its capacity of ‘ lender of last resort ’ , an important function dealt with later in this chapter . |
| 10 | You can get the 4.29 from Richmond to York , which is supposed to connect with the 4.47 , but it 's always late … ’ |
| 11 | Mr Bush livened the act last week when he said he was giving Congress until March 27th to decide which current defence programmes should be trimmed to raise $870m for Panama and Nicaragua ( money that is supposed to come from the 1990 Pentagon budget ) . |
| 12 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 13 | Wellord ( 1979 ) suggests that work on the shop-floor is likely to peak in the thirties — those in their twenties lack experience and social skills , those in their forties are beginning to notice the effect of sensory changes and are less tolerant of fast or very heavy physical work . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , informal care by families faces considerable pressure at present and this is likely to intensify during the 1990s . |
| 15 | It predicts that there will be 8.5 billion people in 2025 , and that the world 's population ( currently 5.3 billion ) is likely to double by the 2050s , not the 2090s as previously estimated . |
| 16 | He is likely to concentrate on the 200 metres this year before moving up to 400 metres as a second-year senior boy next year . |
| 17 | It is imperative to persist in the four cardinal principles [ adherence to socialism , the dictatorship of the proletariat , the leadership of the Communist Party , and Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong thought ] , oppose bourgeois liberalisation , smash the ‘ peaceful evolution ’ schemes of antagonistic international forces and inspire patriotism and socialist consciousness . |
| 18 | For illustrative purposes , he uses the example of another similar manufacturer ( whose identity , he reports , he must keep secret ) who is able to conform to a one p.p.m zinc requirement . |
| 19 | If he is a lawful visitor it is necessary to go to the 1957 Act . |