Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The centre is due to open in the basement of Grange Road Baptist Church soon after Easter .
4 IN STYLE : Belfast International Airport 's new £5 million 108 bedroom hotel , which is due to open in the spring of 1993
5 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 .
6 Building work at the Cotswold Water Park at Somerford Keynes in Gloucestershire is due to start in the autumn .
7 And is that done in the work ?
8 Mr Grigson , is that moving in the direction which you wished to get an answer to your question ?
9 The power vested in the federal government is that delegated in the United States Constitution : all other powers not delegated rest with the states or the people .
10 The most intellectually satisfying explanation is that embodied in the doctrine of karma , in accordance with which the dead child may be regarded as having completed the final stage of a soul-life that , in previous incarnations , had almost earned its passage and , after one more brief sojourn , was able to escape from the cycle of death and rebirth .
11 The Local Government Act 1972 specifically states that the only business which can be transacted is that appearing in the summons convening the meeting .
12 It shines , on a silvered copper plate , which is solid to hold in the hand — but the image is evanescent , even when the plate is tilted to just the correct angle to the eye ( like looking at a hologram today ) and the street becomes magically present in all the exorbitant detail that the Daguerreotype possessed .
13 It is possible to include in the wording of the Deed that the covenant will cease if certain conditions occur — for example , if you become unemployed or your income falls below a certain level .
14 A bird 's eye view of Chesterfield Central circa 1940 , taken from the highest point it is possible to reach in the town — the top of the church steeple .
15 For a small extra charge it is possible to travel in the observation car .
16 Q I have often admired large shoals of Yellow Tangs , but people seem to be divided as to whether this is possible to achieve in the hole aquarium .
17 If one believes that God ( whatever one may mean by God ) is equally available to all times and places , then it is possible to start in the present in acquiring one 's religious sensibilities and formulating what one may mean by God .
18 He says that as well as being the major sponsor of the game , the Midland is the largest private sector employer in Sheffield , and the game provided another opportunity for the bank to demonstrate that it is prepared to invest in the city .
19 It is their custom , even on their largest ships , to show no lights at night — on the principle that it is better to see than to be seen , and that it is easier to see in the dark without the distraction of lights .
20 It is not a quality that it is sensible to expect in the generality of students .
21 Reception under conditions of distraction is taken to its extreme in television , which is half watched in the course of pursuing other activities and in which very often , especially among children , entire programmes are not viewed at all ; instead , fingers rarely leave the remote control device as there is a constant change of channels ( Ellis 1982 , p. 137 ) .
22 Rarely is this expressed in the statute .
23 It is this sharing in the suffering of God that is so convincingly and magnificently expressed in Margaret Spufford 's recent book , Celebration .
24 Less than an hour later , at Bath , the strain of running the campaign as party chairman only to lose his own seat is painful to see in the face of Chris Patten , who bites his lip .
25 THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market .
26 Bed and breakfast is readily available and there is much to see in the area .
27 Primarily , however , an empirically based study of public order policing is impossible to undertake in the midst of the province 's continuing violent conflict , and certainly could not be done with the degree of depth , empirical focus , familiarity , and , frankly , personal safety which an ethnographic study of routine policing allows .
28 Mr. Perry also referred to the legislation which governs council houses in Scotland but it is impossible to imply in the Act of 1985 express words which the legislature chose to insert in the Rent Acts and in the Scottish Act ( Housing ( Scotland ) Act 1987 ) but chose not to insert in the Act of 1985 .
29 Any claim that , because there are competing interpretations , either is equally valid in the absence of knowledge of the programmer 's intentions in the matter , is impossible to maintain in the face of the long rolls of encashable instruments pouring out of its printer .
30 It is impossible to believe in the journey of the spirit without believing that there is something else after this life .
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