Example sentences of "is [adv] [art] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In large hotels the front reception office is basically the sales department dealing with enquiries , necessary records and charts for letting accommodation . |
| 2 | While a number of different leeches will be seen in the garden pool it is only the fish leech that causes any serious problems . |
| 3 | The most versatile paper is perhaps the 140lb weight , because it is strong enough to handle traditional watercolour techniques and a reasonable amount of water , yet it is moderately priced . |
| 4 | There is thus a 5% difference in the extent of collaboration between an author 's first and subsequent publications . |
| 5 | There is thus a 5% difference in the extent of collaboration between an author 's first and subsequent publications . |
| 6 | Lawrence said : ‘ Wilkinson is not a £3m player but he has worked tremendously hard throughout the season . |
| 7 | The findings , contained in an exclusive ICM Research poll for The Scotsman , are further evidence that the country 's current moral panic is not a media invention but a widespread social concern . |
| 8 | This last is not the day.today catering provided by a commercial restaurant , a hotel dining room or a canteen , but catering at one-off " events " . |
| 9 | When such questions are raised it is always the kin family that people are thinking of . |
| 10 | British Gas Somerset District engineers had quite a challenge to install the new gas supply , as the castle is up a 60° gradient hill and then 300 metres of pipe had to ‘ scale ’ ramparts and battlements to the new meter . |
| 11 | There is also a 5% chance any pack animal will shed its load if it spends a turn indulging in this annoying behaviour . |
| 12 | There is also a 50% discount at the Golf Academy . |
| 13 | While the clock is chiming , there is also a 50% chance per character per round of being attacked by another object in the room : the rocking-horse bites , a chair leg strikes at a shin , a table drawer flies out and strikes a vicious blow in the stomach , a toy soldier stabs at an ankle , and so on . |
| 14 | The Developer 's Toolkit for OS/2 2.1 contains bindings , tools , sample programs and documentation , and there is also a Multimedia Presentation Manager Toolkit/2 . |
| 15 | The Developer 's Toolkit for OS/2 2.1 contains bindings , tools , sample programs and documentation , and there is also a Multimedia Presentation Manager Toolkit/2 . |
| 16 | There is also the $145m loan to protect MGM-Pathe from bankruptcy . |
| 17 | ANDY and Fergie 's Dallas-style mansion — dubbed ‘ Southyork ’ by the locals — is now a £1,000-a-day ghost house and should be turned over to the homeless , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 18 | Burnside water , as it was aptly called , is now the headquarters building rebuilt in the 1920's as a multi storey plate glass building of some note at that time . |
| 19 | John Maddox , the editor of Nature , wrote in 1982 : ‘ The OED is uniquely a data base … , which will suggest to many that it should by now be stored on a long reel of magnetic tape , floppy disks , or some other means of data storage . |
| 20 | Its plush interior ( full leather trim is about a £1000 option ) is roomy enough for five to sit in comfort . |
| 21 | It is n't a graphics accelerator , but it 's capable of moving at a decent lick when put on a fast bus . |
| 22 | Secondly , this drive is n't a 33Mb drive , it 's a 20Mb one . |
| 23 | In developed countries e.g. in Europe , there is around a 15% chance of a baby born to an HIV positive mother being infected , however in other parts of the world this can rise to 35–40% . |
| 24 | Now carp can obtain energy from much cheaper foods such as lipid and carbohydrate and this is why the fish farmer provides carp with a protein composition of 30 to 40 per cent . |
| 25 | This is where a sales idea could come in , but for the right reasons it could be good , but also , for the bad reasons , it could be totally wrong . |
| 26 | It is essentially a sales tax levied at a percentage of the final price of the product ( 17.5 per cent from 1991 ) , but is collected at each stage in the production process . |