Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] the [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 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 .
3 Thus , it is unnecessary to consider the alternative ground of maladministration .
4 She is due to join the other royals , including estranged husband Prince Andrew , at Sandringham 's Christmas church service .
5 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 .
6 AFF is due to publish the hefty State of the Environment later this year .
7 Monica is due to hit the big screen in January with the release of Dracula .
8 He borrows Grayson 's typewriter , with which he rewrites the paper he is due to give the next day ( scene ten ) .
9 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 .
10 During his two-week visit to Britain he is due to meet the foreign secretary , Douglas Hurd .
11 Brazilian President Fernando Collor has sacked the controversial Environment Secretary , Jose Lutzenberger , just two months before Brazil is due to host the UNCED conference .
12 It is pleasant to contemplate the Fabii learning Greek , while the Greeks were admiring Roman fides .
13 Where photographs are to be produced it is usual to ask the other parties to admit their authenticity .
14 It is usual to illustrate the grammatical function by inventing sentences which when written are ambiguous , and whose ambiguity can only be removed by using differences of intonation .
15 Although it is usual to use the regular church organist , there is no reason why you should not approach her and explain your situation .
16 It is usual to cover the obvious questions about background , education , qualifications and experience first .
17 The study is re- examining the national accounts measurement of government services ; it argues that most public servants in fact do things which can be measured and it provides some alternative estimates for real output growth in education , health and public administration ( which compares well with broadly analogous private financial services ) .
18 • Renault chief Raymond Levy says he is hesitant to conclude the present Renault-Mitsubishi-Volvo talks before the post-1992 level of Japanese imports to Europe is decided .
19 As far as is possible it is preferable to charge the actual cost incurred rather than a percentage assessment to the cost accounts .
20 By learning to produce muscular tension through tensing exercises and then releasing this tension , you will gradually find it is possible to release the physical tension from everyday stress in the same way , letting go .
21 By performing experiments with different values for the aspect ratio a/b of the cross-section it is possible to estimate the elastic constants but precise values are not obtainable except by considerable labour .
22 Since in these cases , it is possible to scale the null coordinates such that .
23 Today it is possible to explore the meandering River Steeping by hiring a rowing boat or canoe from a wharf near the railway station .
24 When the paper is viewed on the light box , a see-through view is obtained so that it is possible to see the rough copper track layout , like an X-Ray , in relation to the components .
25 Even with × 20 it shows up as nothing more than an elliptical blur , more or less devoid of detail , though it is possible to see the smaller companion galaxy M32 close beside it .
26 It is possible to see the national curriculum legislation as part of the government 's strategy to reduce the power of local authorities .
27 If the current position of any one product is plotted correctly on its life-cycle , then it is possible to assess the potential growth of sales , or the degree to which prices should be allowed to soften in order to maintain the market share , or whether the product should be superseded by another .
28 Using partial equilibrium analysis , and assuming that a non-member country is considering participation in an existing CU , an evaluation of the welfare effects is possible using the traditional concepts of producer and consumer surplus .
29 It is possible to recover the abstract shape of process ' first step behaviour from its semantics .
30 The parietal cell thus provides a striking example of how , by selective modulation of apical and basolateral acid-base transport systems , it is possible to reconcile the conflicting demands of varying transepithelial transport and maintaining cell homeostasis .
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