Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If just a few processes need soft water , it is practicable to pipe the soft water to the machines concerned . |
| 2 | With regard to the control of corporate crime , there is little to deter the corporate criminal . |
| 3 | Associated British Ports , which owns Southampton , Hull and Cardiff , believes that a Channel Tunnel strategy is unnecessary given the overall prospects for growth of trade within and beyond Europe . |
| 4 | Thus , it is unnecessary to consider the alternative ground of maladministration . |
| 5 | It should be noted that the persons present need not have a common purpose ( R. v. Mahroof ( C.A. , 1988 ) ) ; that once again it is unnecessary to produce a frightened bystander ; and that unlike riot , it is sufficient to intend to threaten violence . |
| 6 | If applying two coats , lightly rub down the first coat when it is dry to form a good key for the second coat . |
| 7 | For him it is strenuous to climb a steep hill , because he has to keep pushing his own vertical mass upwards and can not gain any momentum . |
| 8 | She is due to join the other royals , including estranged husband Prince Andrew , at Sandringham 's Christmas church service . |
| 9 | Quoting Lord Lewis of Cambridge University as being ‘ sceptical of claims made by Mr Di Meana about nitrate concentrations in British water ’ , the newspaper ventured the opinion that ‘ Backing for Lord Lewis may emerge today when the Royal Society is due to hold an open seminar on scientific evidence about the purity of the water supply . |
| 10 | I understand that the Scrutiny Committee is due to examine the detailed text on 27 November , and we certainly plan to have a debate in early December . |
| 11 | AFF is due to publish the hefty State of the Environment later this year . |
| 12 | Monica is due to hit the big screen in January with the release of Dracula . |
| 13 | He borrows Grayson 's typewriter , with which he rewrites the paper he is due to give the next day ( scene ten ) . |
| 14 | The Congress , which is expected to last 10 days , is due to consider the economic crisis and hear a state-of-the-nation report from Mr Yeltsin . |
| 15 | During his two-week visit to Britain he is due to meet the foreign secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 16 | The NII , which blames staff shortages and hold-ups at the CEGB for the delays , is due to make a full statement next week . |
| 17 | He is due to get a comprehensive view of the country this week , from watching marines train in California and visiting the 82nd Airborne Division in North Carolina , to a touch of military tourism on the site of the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg . |
| 18 | Brazilian President Fernando Collor has sacked the controversial Environment Secretary , Jose Lutzenberger , just two months before Brazil is due to host the UNCED conference . |
| 19 | Poland has introduced an import surcharge , and is due to announce a new set of customs duties . |
| 20 | The US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , is due to begin a Middle East tour later this week in an effort to get the peace talks started again . |
| 21 | What is also over until further notice is the New-York Historical Society 's exhibition programme , although a travelling show of Audubon watercolours is due to begin an eighteen-month tour at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. in October . |
| 22 | In addition , it is normal to put a maximum period during which claims can be made — usually six or seven years for taxation , since that is the normal limitation period , and two to three years for other warranties ; but this obviously needs to be looked at in each case in the light of particular facts , warranties , assets and liabilities . |
| 23 | One surprising factor is that given a new case is only around £50 there is nothing stopping you from moving everything into a new box if the old one is n't big enough to take a standard size motherboard . |
| 24 | One of the biggest problems in desktop publishing is that to archive a finished newsletter or whatever takes up an entire floppy disk for one issue — and it 's even worse if you want to squirt the thing down the wire for someone else to print out . |
| 25 | The suggestion is that to sell the extra bills and bonds to fund a high PSBR , interest rates must rise to attract investors . |
| 26 | It is pleasant to contemplate the Fabii learning Greek , while the Greeks were admiring Roman fides . |
| 27 | For this reason it is usual to report an electronic absorption spectrum as a list of peak positions and extinction coefficients , or as a list of the extinction coefficients at various wavelengths . |
| 28 | Where photographs are to be produced it is usual to ask the other parties to admit their authenticity . |
| 29 | It is usual to hire a new vehicle on a fully maintained basis for a period of about three years . |
| 30 | It can take as much as six months for all required figures to be available and it is usual to issue a provisional index six to seven weeks after the end of the month in question and revise this later . |