Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final analysis , Quelch and Hoff conclude , perhaps predictably , that the extent to which a standardised global product is practicable depends on two attributes : |
| 2 | He will replace existing director Donald Main , who is due to retire in 1995 . |
| 3 | This fragmentation will be further increased if and when a proposed new national commercial Channel 5 is added to the available terrestrial TV services : this is due to happen by 1995 , but there are doubts about its viability , and the precise format will remain unclear until a contractor is appointed , after a non-decision by the government in late 1992 . |
| 4 | More than £1.2 billion was handed over last year , although the amount is due to decline until 1998 when the levy will be discontinued . |
| 5 | Miss Johansen is due to leave in five weeks . |
| 6 | An earlier decision by the same judge preventing the four from organising or inciting mass pickets at the factory is due to go before three appeal judges next week . |
| 7 | An earlier decision by the same judge preventing the four from organising or inciting mass pickets at the factory is due to go before three appeal judges next week . |
| 8 | At the Poly , where we are already catering for 400 students , a new canteen designed by CCG is due to open in 1992 to serve 1000 students . |
| 9 | The link with France which is due to open in 1986 will have capacity equivalent to a 2000 MW power station . |
| 10 | The Wolds remand prison in Humberside is due to open in 10 days . |
| 11 | The tunnel is due to open in 1993 . |
| 12 | The mine is due to open in 1993 . |
| 13 | The hospital is due to open in 1993 . |
| 14 | The new limits also cover the controversial Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant ( THORP ) , which is due to open in 1993 and will handle spent uranium fuel from decommissioned Magnox reactors . |
| 15 | Labour 's electoral college is due to meet on 18 July . |
| 16 | This rulemaking exercise will be undertaken by the preparatory Commission for the ISA and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ( PREPCOM ) , which is due to meet on 15 March in Jamaica . |
| 17 | A public inquiry into the proposal is due to start on 8 June . |
| 18 | In the meantime , development work is continuing on the European fighter and production is due to start in 1997 . |
| 19 | of all Government-funded research and development has a military purpose and next year that figure is due to rise to 48 per cent ? |
| 20 | Borrowers pay 14.5 per cent interest , though it is due to rise to 15.5 per cent on 1 November . |
| 21 | Project Universe is due to end in 1985 , but there are moves to have the whole scheme extended , perhaps to researchers who just want to use the network to do day-to-day work . |
| 22 | The IAC reported for the last time in January this year and , under the terms of the 1990 continuation order , the 1987 Act is due to expire on 31 March 1992 . |
| 23 | Under the existing Gramm-Rudman law , the deficit is due to shrink to zero by 1993 . |
| 24 | Production is due to begin in 1986 when the Farringdon bus plant will start to churn out the 830 mm long and 330 kg ‘ gearboxes ’ at a cost ‘ comparable with existing transmissions ’ . |
| 25 | A team of professionals from Barcelona , headed by Ferran Mascarell , the city 's cultural delegate , will devise a preliminary scheme for the museum whose construction is due to begin in 1993 . |
| 26 | It is possible to cope with one of these legs being shaky and under pressure but not two at the same time . |
| 27 | The average reading speed at which comprehension is possible varies from 200–400 words per minute — with the majority of people sticking around the 200 word mark . |
| 28 | Crime does not stop at county borders when it is possible to drive through three counties in an hour . |
| 29 | Apart from the ethical concerns some people feel on this matter there is the pressing issue of the degree to which it is possible to extrapolate from one species to another , especially from non-human species to ourselves . |
| 30 | With the naked eye , or with binoculars , it is possible to distinguish between two stars which differ by only a tenth of a magnitude . |