Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 2 | Market buildings , in particular , have proved especially elusive in the small towns and there is little to compare with the forum or macellum of the cities . |
| 3 | When this is done there is little to choose between the UK , France and West Germany . |
| 4 | Despite extensive evidence from numerous independent sources to the effect that there is little to choose between the performance of a well formulated detergent and the invariably more expensive combined products , known as sanitisers , a whole industry has been built around marketing sanitisation . |
| 5 | ‘ As to the ability to determine that issue between the parents , it appears to me that there is little to choose between the family court in England and that in Australia . |
| 6 | There is little leaching from the catchment area , which is small and covered with perennial ice , bare rock or scree , with hardly any mineral soil or vegetation . |
| 7 | Over the past decade subcontracting small firms have formed a significant proportion of all new business formation on the UK and yet there is little known about the characteristics , performance and the specific needs/demand for financial services by these firms . |
| 8 | The head deals with the first , class teachers with the second , and there is little blurring at the edges . |
| 9 | Now that all this complication is unnecessary owing to the introduction of valves , one horn is universally used for notation purposes . |
| 10 | Tucker , who is due to retire in the autumn , said : ‘ I regard the honour as a tribute to the work of Navy News staff past and present , and I 'm particularly proud of the fact that ours has always been virtually an in-house production . |
| 11 | In particular , ‘ Big Al ’ , one of Scotland 's all-time great jumpers , is surprised at the omission of Appleson in favour of the veteran Peter Dods , 34 , who is due to retire after the tour . |
| 12 | PLANS for a voluntary split of business interests is among options which British Gas has proposed to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission which is due to report on the future of the industry next month . |
| 13 | Asthma is due to spasm of the airways that lead to your lungs . |
| 14 | Former North British 0-6-0 Maude No. 673 is due to return on the Bo'ness and Kinniel Railway after a year-long boiler overhaul . |
| 15 | And Ireland 's top traditional dancers are bracing themselves for even more misery at the end of this month when the 18-year-old whizz-kid is due to return for the World Championships in Dublin . |
| 16 | Whether tax is due depends on the size of your overall estate . |
| 17 | The anniversary falls just before the regiment is due to amalgamate with the Duke of Edinburgh 's Royal Regiment as part of the defence cuts . |
| 18 | A recommendation to demolish the block of 1930s-vintage flats where the family lived is due to go to the council 's housing committee on 5 April . |
| 19 | The tycoon Deacon Chiu is building three film studios at his Tang Dynasty Village , which is due to open in the middle of this year . |
| 20 | The centre is due to open in the basement of Grange Road Baptist Church soon after Easter . |
| 21 | IN STYLE : Belfast International Airport 's new £5 million 108 bedroom hotel , which is due to open in the spring of 1993 |
| 22 | The 25-person , privately-owned White Cross is busy setting up overseas operations : a Dallas , Texas-based office is due to open by the end of the year and a Far East office will follow in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 23 | ICI 's Genklene plant in Runcorn , Cheshire , is due to close before the end of 1995 . |
| 24 | At the same time , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley is due to decide on the future of Bart 's . |
| 25 | And the TCCB disciplinary committee is due to meet at the weekend to decide whether to increase Lamb 's punishment for the awful crime of failing to get his comments cleared by Lord 's before they were published in the Mirror . |
| 26 | The information from the first Panel Survey supplied in the form of grids as well as reports is being analysed to ensure that necessary modifications to the approach or to the methodology will be identified and approved before the second Panel Survey , which is due to start in the autumn . |
| 27 | Building work at the Cotswold Water Park at Somerford Keynes in Gloucestershire is due to start in the autumn . |
| 28 | A tantalising mixture of talent is due to appear at the Town Hall in Oxford on Friday . |
| 29 | This is due to appear towards the end of the year , but in the meantime the two companies have extended their relationship so that Office will be sold through all Novell reseller channels . |
| 30 | The permanent rail track has been installed between France and England , and to mark this achievement , a joint TML and Eurotunnel party is due to travel through the Tunnel , albeit in a borrowed train , in the middle of March . |