Example sentences of "is [adv] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently the EEC Nine is only 64% self sufficient in lamb and mutton and around 95 — 97% in beef . |
| 2 | Membership is only £5 p.a . |
| 3 | ‘ None of us can understand how he fell — the window is only 2ft square . ’ |
| 4 | The door of my fishhouse is only 2ft 9″ wide . |
| 5 | Della Grice , a service controller at Hygiene Bristol recently wanted to jump out of an aeroplane , a strange idea , thought other branch members particularly as now she is only 4′ 6″ ! |
| 6 | ‘ Simon Osborn is like a choirboy , Gareth Southgate is a clean , fresh player , Bowry is only 9st 7lb , and Ndah is still a youth player . |
| 7 | Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach . |
| 8 | If A is not pos. def. , the elements of B are in general complex . |
| 9 | In both ( i ) and ( ii ) , unc is negative , and so C is not pos. def. ( see 1.22 , Theorem X ) . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for those who are left-handed , a MouseMan Cordless for them is not available.By comparison the receiver unit is a modestly styled compact box with a conventional 9-pin D-type serial lead . |
| 11 | Precisely who first devised the conical form of the sail on the special stunters that followed out of California and Hawaii is not recorded.The camber of the sail was natural anyway , the Radcliffe bridle had established the bridle points , but the new designers ( Tony Cyphert and Don Tabor are often credited ) added the rear cross-spar and this permitted the trihedron bridle which also absorbed the strain on glass fibre spars . |
| 12 | The blight of ‘ 87 is not media cowardice , record companies asleep at the wheel , callous insipidness , the return of rock , incoherence , a lack of great songs , but rather , a surfeit of PASSION . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom is already th number one destination for foreign investment in the Community . |
| 14 | It would be unwise to come to any firm conclusion , remembering that the majority of those we know about are amongst the sandhills which are constantly being eroded by the winds which expose them , that the eastern part of the island down to Kildalton is largely deer forest which is rarely visited except by stalkers , that there are probably many more cists to be discovered . |
| 15 | France operates a complex system of subsidised credits rather than grants and the minimum interest rate to be borne by plan beneficiaries is usually 2% pa . |
| 16 | Immigration has a lot to do with this , but so do the social mores of a state that is still 60% Mormon . |
| 17 | That is still 1.3m b/d above target , but the discrepancy is smaller than that left by previous efforts at self-restraint . |
| 18 | The main reason for the enormous price differential is possibly aircraft utilisation . |
| 19 | Alan is also series editor for the New Perspectives series , and the Oxford Supplementary Skills series . |
| 20 | The new fare is now £199 return . |
| 21 | His alternatives are predictably bleak : ‘ Much of what is now sheep country could profitably be reforested with nut-trees ’ ( 1977 : 60 ) . |
| 22 | A good recent example of business introduced in this way was through Kellogg 's of Trafford Park , where Renata Knopp ( Modern Languages graduate 1984 ) is now Staff Personnel Officer . |
| 23 | One day , while Sumner is out duck shooting , his wife 's ex-lover bursts into the house and rapes her , followed by his friend . |
| 24 | this is purely staff costs . |
| 25 | The Glasdir deposit is about 2km south of Coed y Brenin . |
| 26 | The proportion varies between systems but a typical profile is about 50% heat and 30% to 40% electricity . |
| 27 | Mrs Ivory is about 5ft 3ins tall and very slim with Oriental features and long black hair . |
| 28 | It just grew and grew — I related to it more and found that the repertoire became more and more slide , so now the set is about 70% slide . |
| 29 | The Fijian is about 6ft 4in and weighs 16½ stone and leaving Horan like that is unheard of . ‘ |
| 30 | It is n't means testing generates the poverty trap , it is the benefits that generates the poverty trap . |