Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [to-vb] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new form of poaching has replaced the killing of deer for meat as the price of venison has dropped ; a single set of antlers is reported to fetch several hundred pounds . |
| 2 | The trial , which is expected to last another 5 weeks , has been adjourned until Tuesday . |
| 3 | The trial , in which 200 witnesses are due to testify , is expected to last another six weeks . |
| 4 | The bypass is part of a scheme to link the M4 and M5 motorways and the inquiry is expected to last another 6 weeks . |
| 5 | The Hitachi array is expected to use quirky 6.5 ’ disk drives and is pitched at a market Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp has made its own with its Symmetrix product , which Gartner Group reckons may be taking as much as 10% of the current mainframe disk market . |
| 6 | The project , which is expected to take some 18 months to complete , will enable all library staff to have access through the online catalogue to up-to-date information on all periodicals and newspaper titles currently received , including the date of the last issue received , and , in most cases , the expected date of the next issue . |
| 7 | And English Language Teaching at Longman which is of course the biggest er biggest profit contributor erm their blueprint sale is expected to exceed nine hundred thousand this year . |
| 8 | Last year turnover was 4.4 million while this year 's figure is expected to exceed 6 million . |
| 9 | The £156-a-year cap on losses is expected to help 6 million people in the first year of the poll tax . |
| 10 | With general interest in Australia running at a reasonably high level in Japan , the exhibition is expected to attract some 250,000 visitors . |
| 11 | The CPA Group , a leasing company based in Ireland is expected to buy several hundred new aeroplanes from a number of manufacturers . |
| 12 | The dolphin is one of the most visible victims of the major disturbance of marine life caused by the controversial airport 's construction , which is expected to involve some 60 per cent of the world 's dredging fleet . |
| 13 | The 600-megawatt Rotterdam station , due to begin operation in the mid-1990's , is expected to discharge 75 million tons of CO2 over its 25 year lifetime . |
| 14 | Iraqi engineers claim that the Third River is designed to reclaim 1.5 million square kilometres of salt-encrusted fields , which could increase Iraq 's crop production by 50 per cent . |
| 15 | Compuware is set to acquire some 900 new customers under its deal with Landmark , in addition to the 200 PD/MVS contracts it will inherit from IBM . |
| 16 | Since unemployment started rising nationally in March 1990 , 997,500 people have joined the dole queue and that figure is set to pass one million next month , when a General Election could be weeks away . |
| 17 | SHV , the powerful Dutch group which has aready made its presence felt in the UK oil industry , is known to have approaching 5 per cent of the capital . |
| 18 | A second park , the theme of which Disney has not yet decided , is projected to welcome eight million in its first year ( 1996 ) . |
| 19 | This measure is projected to raise 375 million francs a year . |
| 20 | It is estimated to employ some 750,000 persons in all , with 57,700 persons in direct manufacturing and a further 30,000 in public houses . |
| 21 | Its hold is estimated to contain some 2,000 tons of contaminated water . |
| 22 | Since this provides the opportunity for the child to score correctly 50 per cent of the time simply by guessing , each grammatical contrast is presented in blocks of four items and the child is required to get all four items correct to pass on any block . |