Example sentences of "is [adj] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlisted Securities Market-quoted Sherwood , chaired by David Parker , is due to report the 30 per cent-plus profits increase on Tuesday . |
| 2 | In practice it is possible to combine the two methods . |
| 3 | The Great Bear is now practically overhead ; Capella is fairly high in the west and Vega in the east , so that it is interesting to compare the two ; in brightness they are almost equal , but Capella is a yellow star whereas Vega is vivid blue . |
| 4 | It is interesting to compare the two years . |
| 5 | Size is often difficult to judge , but the rounded wings of the buzzard are so much shorter that once the sheer length of an eagle 's wings has been experienced , it is impossible to mistake the two . |
| 6 | It is impossible to divorce the two . |
| 7 | That may apply to some African countries , but it is hard to imagine the two biggest aid recipients , Egypt and Bangladesh , doing a great deal more to feed themselves . |
| 8 | In two cases involving admirable heroines and dubious companions it is hard to separate the two categories . |
| 9 | ‘ It is good to get the three aquatic disciplines together , and for youngsters like Paul Latimer and Graeme Smith it is a first chance to be part of the senior squad . ’ |
| 10 | Jane Taylor 's The Dry Garden : Gardening with Drought-Tolerant Plants ( Hodder/Frances Lincoln , March £18.99 , 0 7112 0772 0 ) offers a larger plant range than Beth Chatto 's now classic Dry Garden ; again it is useful to compare the two . |
| 11 | It will be gearing up this year , but is unlikely to repeat the 1991 rights issue . |
| 12 | It is important to keep the three elements conceptually distinct , especially when trying to explain the basic nature of a given type of stratification structure . |
| 13 | ( 43 ) in HepG2 cells , where immune serum against NF-IL6 is able to inhibit the IL-6 induced complex in gel retardation experiments . |
| 14 | Psychologism , through its influence in marriage guidance and churches , and also through its effects in the world of work — in personnel management , for example — is able to link the two spheres in a way religion used to be able to do but can not do any longer . |
| 15 | It is perverse to dissociate the two passages conceptually and insist that the starvation refers to routine annual invasions of the Megarid . |
| 16 | However , since they are usually areas of low vegetation dominated by rough grasses frequently with bracken ( Pteridium aquilinum ) , gorse ( Ulex sp. ) , and scattered trees , in ornithological terms it is convenient to consider the two together . |
| 17 | It is convenient to relate the three meetings in terms of a diagram similar to that used by Eliot in his paper . |
| 18 | Sometimes it is difficult to separate the two , but basically a hand-out is a prepared statement complete in itself , whereas , a worksheet requires student effort to complete and should stimulate further work . |
| 19 | It is difficult to fit the two together , and to know which visits in the two books correspond . |
| 20 | In addition to structures , therefore , there are also classes , and Poulantzas is anxious to keep the two categories apart — a desire which is particularly clear in his discussion of the relations which bind entities of each type . |
| 21 | But more than that he is anxious to win the one big race about which he has always dreamed — the National . |
| 22 | In order to compare risk and memory it is necessary to have the two available for the same well defined events . |
| 23 | It is tempting to contrast the 1977 approach with that outlined in the 1988 Action for Cities ( HMSO , 1988a ) . |
| 24 | Before dismantling the fence , it is wise to number the three wires as they are of slightly different lengths . |