Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [det] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the shock is delayed until some ten minutes after training , memory is not disrupted , and the chicks will avoid the bead . |
| 2 | In France , the LFA is designated under all three available Articles with a comparatively small area under 3(5) . |
| 3 | Some months later , they relented , thought twice , listened to some extra argument about how every jury is skewed in that two or three of its number are not over 65 , and , as such , does not express itself as a cross-section of the populace . |
| 4 | In the third year the student chooses two branches of Chemistry to an advanced level , and is examined on all three branches . |
| 5 | The table Andy is perched over is stacked with several hundred champagne glasses , forming a glittering pyramid rising a couple of metres from the table 's surface . |
| 6 | Given the complexities of some of the procedures which police officers are required to operate under this legislation , it is not surprising to find that the Metropolitan Police , and no doubt many other forces as well , have issued a set of elaborate and detailed instructions which indicate to an officer precisely how he is to proceed in any one of the many contingencies that may arise and which are designed to ensure that he acts in accordance with the statute as interpreted by the courts . |
| 7 | The devout and thankfully expressive countenance of the wife and mother is too admirably depicted to be overlooked or mistaken by anyone as she is occupied with those two most delightful of maternal duties , suckling her infant and teaching her child to pray to God . |
| 8 | The interface is stabilized by some 400 2 of total buried surface area , much less than the 880 2 buried in the more intimate association of CD4(D1D2) . |
| 9 | Music is caught between these two tendencies , and good music embodies both in a satisfying unity , at once affirming the objective movement of bourgeois society and also negating this through subjective critique . |
| 10 | It is supplemented by some 800 loaves of bread , 400lb of porridge oats , 150 Christmas puddings and about 2,000 mince pies . |
| 11 | Bolton Health Authority , which says it learned only on Friday night that the doctor was an AIDS victim , is writing to all 260 patients he treated at the hospital and will make sure they are all contacted and offered counselling and tests if required . |
| 12 | The dorsal fin is ornamented with these two colours . |
| 13 | But the good work that is done in those two areas does not integrate the two very different types of science : the claim that geography is an integrating discipline is both unsustainable and diversionary . |
| 14 | The experience of the workforce is reflected in that 18 per cent have contributed 25 years of more , to the company . |
| 15 | Lot forty one Edison Gem there it is , Lot forty one eighty is offered for this eighty pounds , ninety , one hundred one hundred against you now , any more ? |
| 16 | The damage , is fairly obvious to see is produced by these two and it 's worth pointing out that persistence can be related to this catalase enzyme . |
| 17 | The summary which follows is drawn from those two sources . |
| 18 | The only reason I 've beaten you this time is look at that sixteen Do n't even know four one for are you ? |
| 19 | It is universal in the sense that it is used on all five continents . |
| 20 | The CT2 standard is used in some 20 countries , but AT&T says it has no immediate plans to market the telephones in the US , because the Federal Communications Commission has not approved CT2 phones for use in the US . |
| 21 | Brilliantly presented and documented , the report argues that BSL , used by about fifty thousand deaf people , should be accorded the status of a minority language like Welsh , which is used by some five hundred thousand Welshmen , and Scots Gaelic , used by some eighty thousand Scots . |
| 22 | Production is declining for all three grapes and the vineyards are gradually being replanted with one of the three classic varieties . |
| 23 | This means that the figure for the average performance ( at the bottom of the table ) is based on some 7,500 words of text . |
| 24 | In its Baroque inspiration its closest musical cousin is Enescu 's First Piano Suite , though Eckhardt-Gramatt é's; side of the family is decidedly schizoid : there is a manic playfulness on almost every page of the work , and a knock-about unpredictability that is encountered throughout all six works . |
| 25 | If joint and several liability is accepted , there is nothing to prevent the vendors from settling between themselves in a private agreement the basis on which they would each be required to contribute if a successful claim is brought against any one vendor . |
| 26 | Since this year 's race avoids the Pyrenean peaks , all the hard mountain climbing is concentrated into these two days . |
| 27 | The field has already produced 650,000 barrels of oil and production is continuing at some 5,000 barrels a day — an excellent result , says Central Region production manager Mike Sigsworth . |
| 28 | Nothing else is known of these four lawmen , not even the period in which they are supposed to have lived . |
| 29 | The state is linked to all three components , through a set of institutions which : regulates the sphere of circulation , in order to ensure continued accumulation of surplus value in the sphere of production , but in doing so may promote the interests of certain intra-class groups over others ; oversees the processes of economic , biological and cultural reproduction ; and acts as the arena within which the popular democratic forces struggle over the other two . |
| 30 | High Quality Service — Renault UK 's Swindon-based National Parts Distribution Centre is linked to all 270 dealers by a special parts hotline . |