Example sentences of "is [adj] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If just a few processes need soft water , it is practicable to pipe the soft water to the machines concerned . |
| 2 | Thus , it is unnecessary to consider the alternative ground of maladministration . |
| 3 | Unlisted Securities Market-quoted Sherwood , chaired by David Parker , is due to report the 30 per cent-plus profits increase on Tuesday . |
| 4 | She is due to join the other royals , including estranged husband Prince Andrew , at Sandringham 's Christmas church service . |
| 5 | I understand that the Scrutiny Committee is due to examine the detailed text on 27 November , and we certainly plan to have a debate in early December . |
| 6 | AFF is due to publish the hefty State of the Environment later this year . |
| 7 | Monica is due to hit the big screen in January with the release of Dracula . |
| 8 | He borrows Grayson 's typewriter , with which he rewrites the paper he is due to give the next day ( scene ten ) . |
| 9 | The Congress , which is expected to last 10 days , is due to consider the economic crisis and hear a state-of-the-nation report from Mr Yeltsin . |
| 10 | During his two-week visit to Britain he is due to meet the foreign secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 11 | Brazilian President Fernando Collor has sacked the controversial Environment Secretary , Jose Lutzenberger , just two months before Brazil is due to host the UNCED conference . |
| 12 | It is pleasant to see the same easy charm , quiet confidence and obliging manner re-establish itself in the new generation of ownership . |
| 13 | It is pleasant to contemplate the Fabii learning Greek , while the Greeks were admiring Roman fides . |
| 14 | Where photographs are to be produced it is usual to ask the other parties to admit their authenticity . |
| 15 | It is usual to illustrate the grammatical function by inventing sentences which when written are ambiguous , and whose ambiguity can only be removed by using differences of intonation . |
| 16 | Although it is usual to use the regular church organist , there is no reason why you should not approach her and explain your situation . |
| 17 | It is usual to cover the obvious questions about background , education , qualifications and experience first . |
| 18 | • Renault chief Raymond Levy says he is hesitant to conclude the present Renault-Mitsubishi-Volvo talks before the post-1992 level of Japanese imports to Europe is decided . |
| 19 | As far as is possible it is preferable to charge the actual cost incurred rather than a percentage assessment to the cost accounts . |
| 20 | By learning to produce muscular tension through tensing exercises and then releasing this tension , you will gradually find it is possible to release the physical tension from everyday stress in the same way , letting go . |
| 21 | By performing experiments with different values for the aspect ratio a/b of the cross-section it is possible to estimate the elastic constants but precise values are not obtainable except by considerable labour . |
| 22 | Given the assumption that aphasia always occurs after damage to the speech-dominant hemisphere ( which , of course , will not be the case where damage is restricted to regions outside the language areas of the brain ) it is possible to estimate the expected upper limit ( EUL ) for the frequency of aphasia generated by a particular model of speech dominance in the population . |
| 23 | Since in these cases , it is possible to scale the null coordinates such that . |
| 24 | Today it is possible to explore the meandering River Steeping by hiring a rowing boat or canoe from a wharf near the railway station . |
| 25 | When the paper is viewed on the light box , a see-through view is obtained so that it is possible to see the rough copper track layout , like an X-Ray , in relation to the components . |
| 26 | Even with × 20 it shows up as nothing more than an elliptical blur , more or less devoid of detail , though it is possible to see the smaller companion galaxy M32 close beside it . |
| 27 | It is possible to see the national curriculum legislation as part of the government 's strategy to reduce the power of local authorities . |
| 28 | If the current position of any one product is plotted correctly on its life-cycle , then it is possible to assess the potential growth of sales , or the degree to which prices should be allowed to soften in order to maintain the market share , or whether the product should be superseded by another . |
| 29 | In this system it is possible to replace the tactile , behavioural stimulus by its neurophysiological analogue , that is , by direct electrical stimulation of the sensory nerve inputs . |
| 30 | It is possible to recover the abstract shape of process ' first step behaviour from its semantics . |