Example sentences of "[noun] is [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the field of comparative religion is opened up for the students in the study of the faiths of the modern world . |
| 2 | When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created . |
| 3 | If all is satisfactory the credit card is handed back to the customer with a copy of the sales voucher and a receipted bill . |
| 4 | Leaving bridle line ‘ C ’ slack , pull on the connector ring ( sometimes a snap and swivel is fitted instead ) so that lines ‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ are taut and the ring is held down at the level of the rear cross-spar . |
| 5 | This latter recommendation is tied up with the setting up of a Media Enterprise Board which would provide funding — funding derived from an advertising levy — for all newly established media . |
| 6 | ( Similarly , the self-relatedness within God 's triunity is opened up as the basis on which he calls into being creatures other than himself , creatures whose raison d'être is to mirror and participate in his relation to himself . ) |
| 7 | The gear is piled up to the beams |
| 8 | A substantial part of this firewood is brought in from the villages to be sold in the cities , although nobody really knows how much . |
| 9 | Highly charged personal reminiscence is bound up with the anthropological perspective which gives it an impersonal respectability . |
| 10 | Once a disk is put into the disk drive ( see Figure 1.8 ) , a command is typed in on the keyboard , the microcomputer takes a copy of a particular program from the disk and puts it into its memory . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough football club is knocked out of the first round of the War Cup by Bradford . |
| 12 | The amount of work in a programme is shared out amongst the different processors of the computer . |
| 13 | Anthropology is bound up with the understanding of lived circumstances rather than abstract thought , the basis of anthropological knowledge being first and always ethnography . |
| 14 | A whole pig is served up for the main New Year feast , and bean curd , sausages and special wine are prepared . |
| 15 | ( A satisfactory solution was not to be reached until the work of Horta de San Juan , where , using the tendons as an axis , the back of the neck is swung around into the front of the shoulder . ) |
| 16 | A bending spring is slid down inside the pipe for support as it is bent across the knee . |
| 17 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 18 | The width of standard film is 35mm ; part of the width is taken up by the sprocket holes , and the picture or ‘ frame ’ size is 24mm X 36mm . |
| 19 | ( The Danish Government 's view on the registration of fishing vessels is set out in the section of this report dealing with question ( 3 ) . ) |
| 20 | But it is imperative to ensure that research is carried out on the value of screening for gestational diabetes in those hitherto neglected settings . |
| 21 | As body weight is transferred back to the centre of the machine , lifting the bike still further , the rider heaves himself forward over the front . |
| 22 | It is safe to push backwards , moving down wind with the nose into wind , provided that the airbrakes are open and weight is applied down on the nose . |
| 23 | The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral . |
| 24 | The interview is made up of the two sets of interrelated emotions — those of the adviser and those of the client . |
| 25 | Several days later his car is fished out of the creek . |
| 26 | Once dry of all fluids the car is loaded on to the factory 's rolling ‘ D production ’ line . |
| 27 | I see the way the snow is kicked up off the paws of the dogs , the way their breath explodes around their heads . |
| 28 | A clear example of the ultra vires rule is set out in the following case . |
| 29 | ‘ My rent is paid up for the next six months , ’ Caro had assured her airily , ‘ before I knew I was leaving . |
| 30 | In resisting the sideways forces the daggerboard starts to behave like a sail and a force is set up between the high and low pressure sides of the foil ( F1 ) . |