Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Internationally , there is little planned this season , following the failure of the Irish team to qualify for the World Cup finals in Australia . |
| 2 | For those in social housing in or close to the LDDC , there is little to suggest any short-to medium-term improvement in housing conditions . |
| 3 | In those circumstances , it is unnecessary to express any view on the proper construction of the charter and statutes beyond saying that I have heard nothing which persuades me that the views of Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 were wrong . |
| 4 | All this variety of opinion , assessment and recommendation will be considered by The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice , which is due to report this month . |
| 5 | Whilst no such boycott is due to happen this year , Testing is not compulsory and parents would still be able to withdraw their children if they so wished . |
| 6 | He is due to arrive this morning at the Divulje barracks near Split on the Croatian coast and travel on , weather permitting , to a camp known as The Redoubt near Tomislavgrad in south-west Bosnia . |
| 7 | Ellie is due to foal any day and naturally Margaret is on tenderhooks . |
| 8 | Speakers there included former managing directors of BBC-TV , Sir Paul Fox and Bill Cotton , and Sir Michael , who is due to attend another farewell dinner tonight , hosted by the BBC . |
| 9 | Health Images UK Ltd , owners of the medical centre at Yarm Road which is due to open this month , say they would welcome plans to expand the site . |
| 10 | Admittedly , St Andrews boasts four 18-hole courses and a 9-hole one ( a fifth 18-hole course , the Strathtyrum , is due to open this summer ) . |
| 11 | The ship is due to sail that day : on shore with the captain at a prize-fight , he overhears a plot to kidnap a certain American lady visiting Los Xicales with her brother , and rides out on a bicycle to warn them but also expecting that this will be the moment foretold for that second meeting . |
| 12 | The Bundesbank is due to meet this morning , and the cost of borrowing is likely to remain unchanged to keep a lid on the German economy . |
| 13 | Parliament is due to meet this week . |
| 14 | bridge switch : Work is due to start this weekend on a £25,000 scheme to replace a footbridge over the A167 in Ferryhill . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , BASE is due to announce this week how it intends to spend an extra £4 million awarded by the Office of Science and Technology over the next three years . |
| 16 | A new Training Course is due to begin this January , based in Kent , near the M25 , on a weekly basis , with one residential weekend per term , to be held in Buckinghamshire . |
| 17 | The chip set is currently in pre-production ; high volume production is due to begin any day now . |
| 18 | The result : LANtastic for TCP/IP , is due to ship this autumn and it provides LANtastic clients with a range of terminal emulations , File Transfer Protocol between Digital Equipment Corp , IBM Corp and Unix hosts and distributed file sharing using the Network File System protocol . |
| 19 | A store address is not required by a shift instruction , so it is normal to use this portion of the instruction to specify the number of bit positions to be shifted . |
| 20 | The obvious problem here is that to provide such sight lines would |
| 21 | The first is that to understand any society it is necessary to consider the religious basis of that society . |
| 22 | These are available on prescription when the patient is at home but it is usual to give several days ' supplies to patients in case they are unable to obtain a prescription immediately . |
| 23 | The same should be done when a patient drops out of treatment , except that , in this case , it is usual to offer another appointment , reiterating the therapist 's willingness to help . |
| 24 | Symptoms of rust disease are shown as small , reddish-brown , raised spots on the leaf under-surface , and as control is difficult , it is preferable to destroy such plants including the roots , and to plant new specimens in a different place . |
| 25 | It is preferable to encourage those strategies which indicate a groping after meaning ( contextual hypotheses ) rather than those which show a grasp of surface features only . |
| 26 | This system can be a manual one but with computerised time-recording packages available at under £500 it is preferable to make some investment in technology . |
| 27 | If it is possible to incorporate some escape exit and some point of anchorage , then so much the better . |
| 28 | If there is sufficient space it is possible to choose some people to play leapfrog during the chorus . |
| 29 | Using randomization , it is possible to generate many examples of a similar nature that , if required , can also be self-grading against pupil performance . |
| 30 | Although it is not possible to give any exact statistics of the physically disabled , it is possible to give some indication of the extent of the problems they face . |