Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [det] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the shock is delayed until some ten minutes after training , memory is not disrupted , and the chicks will avoid the bead . |
| 2 | In the third year the student chooses two branches of Chemistry to an advanced level , and is examined on all three branches . |
| 3 | Music is caught between these two tendencies , and good music embodies both in a satisfying unity , at once affirming the objective movement of bourgeois society and also negating this through subjective critique . |
| 4 | It is supplemented by some 800 loaves of bread , 400lb of porridge oats , 150 Christmas puddings and about 2,000 mince pies . |
| 5 | Bolton Health Authority , which says it learned only on Friday night that the doctor was an AIDS victim , is writing to all 260 patients he treated at the hospital and will make sure they are all contacted and offered counselling and tests if required . |
| 6 | The dorsal fin is ornamented with these two colours . |
| 7 | But the good work that is done in those two areas does not integrate the two very different types of science : the claim that geography is an integrating discipline is both unsustainable and diversionary . |
| 8 | Lot forty one Edison Gem there it is , Lot forty one eighty is offered for this eighty pounds , ninety , one hundred one hundred against you now , any more ? |
| 9 | The summary which follows is drawn from those two sources . |
| 10 | It is universal in the sense that it is used on all five continents . |
| 11 | The CT2 standard is used in some 20 countries , but AT&T says it has no immediate plans to market the telephones in the US , because the Federal Communications Commission has not approved CT2 phones for use in the US . |
| 12 | Production is declining for all three grapes and the vineyards are gradually being replanted with one of the three classic varieties . |
| 13 | This means that the figure for the average performance ( at the bottom of the table ) is based on some 7,500 words of text . |
| 14 | Since this year 's race avoids the Pyrenean peaks , all the hard mountain climbing is concentrated into these two days . |
| 15 | The field has already produced 650,000 barrels of oil and production is continuing at some 5,000 barrels a day — an excellent result , says Central Region production manager Mike Sigsworth . |
| 16 | Nothing else is known of these four lawmen , not even the period in which they are supposed to have lived . |
| 17 | The state is linked to all three components , through a set of institutions which : regulates the sphere of circulation , in order to ensure continued accumulation of surplus value in the sphere of production , but in doing so may promote the interests of certain intra-class groups over others ; oversees the processes of economic , biological and cultural reproduction ; and acts as the arena within which the popular democratic forces struggle over the other two . |
| 18 | High Quality Service — Renault UK 's Swindon-based National Parts Distribution Centre is linked to all 270 dealers by a special parts hotline . |
| 19 | Each neurone is linked by some 10,000 synapses . |
| 20 | A quarterly newsletter is distributed to several hundred members , and a monthly ‘ Spokesworker ’ goes out to a smaller group of committed activists . |
| 21 | A fascinating insight is provided into those two cultures by the fact that Western writers disapproved in the case of China , but greatly approved in the case of Japan . |
| 22 | So 34-year-old Madonna , who also owns a £1.5 million Hollywood mansion , luxury New York pad and £1 million cabin cruiser , is chucking in another million dollars for a bit of decorating . |
| 23 | Clearly , PLC- β1 is activated by all four members of the α q family ( α q , α 11 , α 14 , and α 16 ) . |
| 24 | In studying what is meant by these two topics we must think about shapes , and opposite or reversed shapes . |
| 25 | The general theory of society which is enshrined in these two books is spelt out with great verve , but not without ambiguity , in Durkheim 's methodological manifesto Les Règles de la method sociologique . |
| 26 | The work of the Department is conducted on all four campuses ( principally at Magee College and Jordanstown ) as well as off-site . |
| 27 | Other information is obtained by all six departments by continuous trawling , particularly of newspapers and journals . |
| 28 | Mr Pavlov said that the anti-crisis programme will work only if it is backed by all 15 republics . |
| 29 | The average Spanish farm is divided into some 11 pieces and as high as 26 in Douro region . |
| 30 | What is striking about these two books is the sense they convey — little less unusual now than when they were written — of a strong and independent black community , in which people found their own way rather than having it mapped out for them by white expectations . |