Example sentences of "is [verb] in the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No major spend on equipment is foreseen in the next 2 or 3 years until the existing LAN requires replacement when a full review of requirements would be necessary . |
| 2 | This metaphor is developed in the second last line to describe the voice of the tramp as ‘ as sweet as a bird 's … ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ If the recent burst of consumer demand is sustained in the next two or three months , it should ultimately be translated into increases in production , employment and income . |
| 4 | Such an inquiry is undertaken in the next four chapters . |
| 5 | Productivity and product wages determine the course of the profit share and an account of their movements is given in the next two sections . |
| 6 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 7 | If , for example , the bulk of the academic element is contained in the first two years of a course , then the second two can be devoted to developing teaching strategies . |
| 8 | The introduction to the study is contained in the first two or three paragraphs of the article , which also briefly summarize its results and implications . |
| 9 | You must first seek to interest the editor and to do this you must make certain that the essence of the story is contained in the first few sentences . |
| 10 | A FLOOD of new weekly television listings magazines will hit the market when what the Home Secretary calls the ‘ dotty ’ restriction on advance use of programme schedules is lifted in the next parliamentary session . |
| 11 | A final decision is expected in the next two weeks , although the Government yesterday refused to confirm or deny reports that it was to scrap the registers . |
| 12 | The re-launch of the share issue is expected in the next few weeks . |
| 13 | An announcement from the Home Office confirming the reopening of Oxford is expected in the next few weeks |
| 14 | Under terms of the acquisition , SmartStar will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sapiens International , which will pay up to 1.27m new shares ; closing is seen in the next several months . |
| 15 | This is shown in the first three columns of figure 8.6 . |
| 16 | This is shown in the first three columns of Figure 1.8 . |
| 17 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 18 | This point is noted in the First Periodic Report on the social and economic situation in the regions of the EC ( 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Or Natural Selection ? , but is introduced in the next short chapter where we take a brief diversion to present something of the vast integrated cycles by which life is maintained upon our planet . |
| 20 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
| 21 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
| 22 | The right of elderly people to take risks is emphasised in the first national guidelines on restraint in residential care and nursing homes . |
| 23 | The business gift sector is characterised by seasonal demand , and it is estimated that 80 per cent of this business is conducted in the last two months of every year . |
| 24 | The application of the material covered in the first six subjects to professional problems is tested in the last four subjects . |
| 25 | The general law relating to restraint of trade and business secrets is analysed in the first five chapters . |
| 26 | This is where the market research which is analysed in the first three parts of the planning cycle can help . |
| 27 | The Norwegian SNSF project found that 80 per cent of the pollutant content of the winter snowpack is released in the first 30 per cent of the meltwater ( Overrein et al. , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | An open meeting of students and staff is held in the first two terms of each year ( usually in week 7 ) , principally for students to express views and opinions to the Dean and staff . |
| 29 | The carpenter , the " " riche gnof " " , is mentioned in the first three lines but the narration moves swiftly on to the portrait of Nicholas . |
| 30 | A trial programme of prescribing methadone is to begin in the next two weeks at Edinburgh 's Saughton prison . |