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 | The United Kingdom is already th number one destination for foreign investment in the Community . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Immigration has a lot to do with this , but so do the social mores of a state that is still 60% Mormon . |
| 12 | That is still 1.3m b/d above target , but the discrepancy is smaller than that left by previous efforts at self-restraint . |
| 13 | The main reason for the enormous price differential is possibly aircraft utilisation . |
| 14 | Alan is also series editor for the New Perspectives series , and the Oxford Supplementary Skills series . |
| 15 | The new fare is now £199 return . |
| 16 | His alternatives are predictably bleak : ‘ Much of what is now sheep country could profitably be reforested with nut-trees ’ ( 1977 : 60 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | this is purely staff costs . |
| 19 | The Glasdir deposit is about 2km south of Coed y Brenin . |
| 20 | The proportion varies between systems but a typical profile is about 50% heat and 30% to 40% electricity . |
| 21 | Mrs Ivory is about 5ft 3ins tall and very slim with Oriental features and long black hair . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Fijian is about 6ft 4in and weighs 16½ stone and leaving Horan like that is unheard of . ‘ |
| 24 | Lane has breathed a sigh of relief that he therefore can not be caught this week , for Mark James ( 5th ) is his closest rival present and he is almost £75,000 points behind . |
| 25 | Mr Widmer Bus company to sue councils over ‘ £800,000 debts ’ A bus company is to sue three Cleveland boroughs over what it claims is almost £800,000 worth of unpaid debts . |
| 26 | That is almost 10m tonnes above the EC 's harvest estimate of 157.5m tonnes . |
| 27 | At high-enough frequencies to satisfy , there is virtually 100% transmission and negligible phase shift . |
| 28 | This being so , there is virtually 100% transmission of each Fourier component of the signal with each component suffering a phase shift of β per section , where β is given by equation ( 9.23 ) or ( 9.27 ) . |
| 29 | The clock rate is then 500m Hz , because there are clock cycles per step command . |
| 30 | Total research income for the department is around £1.5m pa from a wide variety of sources . |