Example sentences of "is [adv] [n mass] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ None of us can understand how he fell — the window is only 2ft square . ’ |
| 3 | Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach . |
| 4 | The United Kingdom is already th number one destination for foreign investment in the Community . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Immigration has a lot to do with this , but so do the social mores of a state that is still 60% Mormon . |
| 8 | The main reason for the enormous price differential is possibly aircraft utilisation . |
| 9 | Alan is also series editor for the New Perspectives series , and the Oxford Supplementary Skills series . |
| 10 | The new fare is now £199 return . |
| 11 | His alternatives are predictably bleak : ‘ Much of what is now sheep country could profitably be reforested with nut-trees ’ ( 1977 : 60 ) . |
| 12 | The Glasdir deposit is about 2km south of Coed y Brenin . |
| 13 | The proportion varies between systems but a typical profile is about 50% heat and 30% to 40% electricity . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At high-enough frequencies to satisfy , there is virtually 100% transmission and negligible phase shift . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Total research income for the department is around £1.5m pa from a wide variety of sources . |
| 19 | Shannon ( 1951 ) demonstrated that there is over 50% redundancy in the English language by investigating the ability of readers to predict what letters were missing from words . |
| 20 | When the outburst comes it is very effective.The lyricism of Tennyson 's poetry is magnificent . |