Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently the EEC Nine is only 64% self sufficient in lamb and mutton and around 95 — 97% in beef . |
| 2 | ‘ None of us can understand how he fell — the window is only 2ft square . ’ |
| 3 | Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach . |
| 4 | Unfortunately for those who are left-handed , a MouseMan Cordless for them is not available.By comparison the receiver unit is a modestly styled compact box with a conventional 9-pin D-type serial lead . |
| 5 | Precisely who first devised the conical form of the sail on the special stunters that followed out of California and Hawaii is not recorded.The camber of the sail was natural anyway , the Radcliffe bridle had established the bridle points , but the new designers ( Tony Cyphert and Don Tabor are often credited ) added the rear cross-spar and this permitted the trihedron bridle which also absorbed the strain on glass fibre spars . |
| 6 | The blight of ‘ 87 is not media cowardice , record companies asleep at the wheel , callous insipidness , the return of rock , incoherence , a lack of great songs , but rather , a surfeit of PASSION . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom is already th number one destination for foreign investment in the Community . |
| 8 | It would be unwise to come to any firm conclusion , remembering that the majority of those we know about are amongst the sandhills which are constantly being eroded by the winds which expose them , that the eastern part of the island down to Kildalton is largely deer forest which is rarely visited except by stalkers , that there are probably many more cists to be discovered . |
| 9 | It 's not sales technique until he actually gets the appointment , he ca n't present anything . |
| 10 | France operates a complex system of subsidised credits rather than grants and the minimum interest rate to be borne by plan beneficiaries is usually 2% pa . |
| 11 | Immigration has a lot to do with this , but so do the social mores of a state that is still 60% Mormon . |
| 12 | The main reason for the enormous price differential is possibly aircraft utilisation . |
| 13 | Alan is also series editor for the New Perspectives series , and the Oxford Supplementary Skills series . |
| 14 | There 's also Data Integrity 's Systems Perils Policy , available from any Lloyds broker , for bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted . |
| 15 | The new fare is now £199 return . |
| 16 | His alternatives are predictably bleak : ‘ Much of what is now sheep country could profitably be reforested with nut-trees ’ ( 1977 : 60 ) . |
| 17 | One day , while Sumner is out duck shooting , his wife 's ex-lover bursts into the house and rapes her , followed by his friend . |
| 18 | The Glasdir deposit is about 2km south of Coed y Brenin . |
| 19 | The proportion varies between systems but a typical profile is about 50% heat and 30% to 40% electricity . |
| 20 | It just grew and grew — I related to it more and found that the repertoire became more and more slide , so now the set is about 70% slide . |
| 21 | It is n't means testing generates the poverty trap , it is the benefits that generates the poverty trap . |
| 22 | Mr Widmer Bus company to sue councils over ‘ £800,000 debts ’ A bus company is to sue three Cleveland boroughs over what it claims is almost £800,000 worth of unpaid debts . |
| 23 | At high-enough frequencies to satisfy , there is virtually 100% transmission and negligible phase shift . |
| 24 | This being so , there is virtually 100% transmission of each Fourier component of the signal with each component suffering a phase shift of β per section , where β is given by equation ( 9.23 ) or ( 9.27 ) . |
| 25 | Total research income for the department is around £1.5m pa from a wide variety of sources . |
| 26 | Ontario , Canada-based , ATI Technologies Inc has struck up a deal with Metro Link Inc to run ATI 's Ultra graphics accelerator board and Metro 's Metro-X X11.5 server together to give Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 systems X-Windows functionality . |
| 27 | Shannon ( 1951 ) demonstrated that there is over 50% redundancy in the English language by investigating the ability of readers to predict what letters were missing from words . |
| 28 | When the outburst comes it is very effective.The lyricism of Tennyson 's poetry is magnificent . |