Example sentences of "is [prep] [art] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survival curve for the study shows that the highest mortality is during the first four years after diagnosis . |
| 2 | The critical time for an adverse effect on language development is during the first three years of life ( Sak and Ruben 1981 ; Zinkus et al . |
| 3 | The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow . |
| 4 | If the toll-road is not manned , that will almost certainly be because the road is closed by snow , as it normally is for a good seven months out of the twelve . |
| 5 | Sited in the car park , south of the station , the design is for a new two storey building , brick built and externally reminiscent of traditional nineteenth century railwaymen 's lodging houses . |
| 6 | It also covers the starter motor and the break master cylinder , and that is for a full twelve month period . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister 's formulation is that it is for the other 11 member states now to demonstrate to us in watertight treaty terms that the right of all member states to determine their own foreign policies is not being abandoned or abdicated . |
| 8 | At each anniversary National Savings will write and say what the guaranteed rate is for the next 12 months . |
| 9 | Skipper Denis McBride is with the Irish Sevens squad in Hong Kong , Scott Kirkptrick is in the States , Stuart Duncan ( knee injury ) and Ken Tuta ( suspended ) are out until the end of the season . |
| 10 | At the general meeting of 13 February mentioned above , and on advice from STA headquarters , conveyed by the ETS secretary John Common , the men voted to return to work on " the November conditions " , that is with an extra 2s 6d on the stab rate ( to bring it up to the Glasgow figure ) plus some concessions on overtime , but no joy on piece rates or on the question of hours . |
| 11 | But he said : ‘ We would not expect this to be the case when the ambulance station is within a few hundred yards of the person who made the call . ’ |
| 12 | All that need be noted here is that , whilst none of these approaches is unproblematic , it is within the latter two perspectives that radical adult educators will find the most potential for development . |
| 13 | Arguably , the most valuable material is in the remaining three chapters where the authors discuss a European emphasis on preventive and social action which is less apparent here . |
| 14 | De Corpore contains only hints about these sciences , and their further development is in the other two parts of Hobbes 's Elements of Philosophy — De Homine and De Cive . |
| 15 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 16 | He has just received a hefty testimonial pay-out and is in the last 18 months of his current contract . |
| 17 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ An offender armed with a knife is in the same 14 year category as one armed with a blunt instrument . |
| 19 | Despite the masterpieces they contain , Italy 's museums are so uninviting and so often closed that they have very few visitors : only the Uffizi is over the one million mark ( 1,048,185 ) , with the Accademia in Venice at a mere 183,474 ( compared with the London National Gallery 's four million visitors ) . |
| 20 | What is common to all of them and to others , as it is to the first two sorts of " if " statements , is that none states the kind of connection of one thing with another which is expressed by any dependent conditional . |
| 21 | It can accurately tell him where he is to the nearest ten metres or so . |
| 22 | The show is on an extended nine point , nation-wide tour with Angela Barrett 's atmospheric pencil and watercolour studies for five stories by Hans Christian Anderson . |
| 23 | Its population is around the 3.3 million mark compared with some 56 million in the UK . |