Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the liner is effectively sealed between three rows of bricks and brings it up above water level , preventing seepage . |
| 2 | It is nicely ringed on three sides by colourful high hills or else low mountains , and has a delightful old humpbacked bridge . |
| 3 | It 's not actually that complicated , because the range is basically divided into three types of guitars . |
| 4 | b ) If such notice is given or the employment is so terminated after nine months and within 15 months , the repayment will be half the amount . |
| 5 | c ) If such notice is given or the employment is so terminated after 15 months and within 2 years , the repayment will be one quarter of the amount . |
| 6 | SKF ( U.K. ) Limited Relocation expense repayment ‘ This payment is made upon condition that if within two years of the date upon which it is made , you give notice to terminate your employment with this company , or we summarily terminate it because of misconduct , you will make repayment to us as follows : — a ) If such notice is given or the employment is so terminated within nine months , the repayment will be the full amount . |
| 7 | As a first approximation , we may say that an idiom 's syntactic behaviour is broadly determined by two factors : the syntactic structure of the literal counterpart of the idiom ( if it has one ) , and the fact that distinguishable syntactic constituents are not semantic constituents , and therefore are not open , for instance , to adjectival and adverbial modification , nor can they be isolated for emphasis , etc . |
| 8 | The manual is broadly divided into two parts . |
| 9 | The current organisation and management of many areas of scientific activity , and of institutions dependant on such activity , is generally based on two assumptions . |
| 10 | Any willingness on the part of our courts to accord supremacy to community law is thus limited by two factors : ( a ) an unwillingness to hold that Parliament has limited its power to pass legislation conflicting with existing obligations under community law ; ( b ) lack of precedent for challenges to the validity of an Act of Parliament . |
| 11 | The structure of Liberal argument , both at the time and as it has come down to us in modern land law texts , is thus built upon two suppositions . |
| 12 | These are sure signs of a limestone bedrock , and this is soon confirmed by two limekilns in an open field , both long disused but remaining almost intact . |
| 13 | Coursework is directed towards the dissertation and is normally assessed by four essays on two or three of the following four areas : the beginnings of Christianity ; contemporary New Testament theology ; historical , philosophical and philological questions relating to the language and text of the New Testament ; the New Testament as literature . |
| 14 | The nose-wheel is normally lifted at seventy knots to rotate at ninety , but because of the wind I held her down to 95 for a clean lift-off at a hundred after a run of a thousand yards or so . |
| 15 | The Diploma is normally awarded after nine months on basis of satisfactory performance in three courses . |
| 16 | A sign at our local church is in oak , with gold lettering , but the latter is already fading after three years . |
| 17 | The coordination and crystal structure of ionic lattices is largely determined by two factors : the ratio of cations to anions the radius ratio of the ions |
| 18 | Life in Looe today is largely governed by two seasons ; the tourist season and the season spent recovering from it and preparing for the next . |
| 19 | We report a new procedure , coelocentesis , that is best done before 10 weeks . |
| 20 | Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care . |
| 21 | The choice of working fluid , unless dictated by the available standard equipment , is usually influenced by two considerations , the achievement of the desired values of the governing non-dimensional parameters and the performance of flow transducers . |
| 22 | Decentralisation is usually examined from two perspectives : |
| 23 | Secondly , the weeding process itself is usually based upon three criteria , described in more detail below . |
| 24 | The caravan is usually staffed by two officers who can provide all kinds of information on crime prevention in the home and on the street such as the new booklet ‘ Talking Sense , A Guide To Women 's Safety ’ . |
| 25 | The latter category , ( which did not include the 1976–83 military regime in Argentina ) is usually divided into two groups : those which have relations with the USSR , i.e. , pre-democratisation Brazil and Uruguay , and those which do not , i.e. , Chile , Paraguay , pre-1985 Guatemala , and Duvalier 's Haiti ( Valenta : 1983 , pp. 291–2 and Blasier : 1983 , pp. 81–91 ) . |
| 26 | A unit of Squig Hunters is always deployed in two ranks with all the Cave Squigs in the front rank and all the Night Goblins behind them . |
| 27 | In fact , the strongest impact is always made with three hits . |
| 28 | And yet ‘ Southyork ’ is still guarded by 16 police — costing the local taxpayers £350,000 a year — and kept spick and span by a full team of servants . |
| 29 | Bingo is still run on two Mondays per month during the winter . |
| 30 | Bingo is still enjoyed on two Mondays per month with members of the Village Association committee acting as callers . |