Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is mostly made up of perennial plants which will come up fresh in spring , there are one or two evergreen shrubs added for structure : an upright rosemary and a couple of spiky yuccas . |
| 2 | The family of the entertainer Leslie Crowther , who was critically injured in a car crash three months ago , says he 's slowly getting back to normal . |
| 3 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 4 | For tonight 's game , Burscough will welcome back Gary Winn , who joins a squad that is slowly getting back to full strength . |
| 5 | Like it or lump it , the world is slowly turning on to Graphical User Interfaces , whether they be Windows , the Apple Mac 's operating system , or the Next — not forgetting OS/2 v 2.0 , of course . |
| 6 | Mastery of the code of reading is intimately bound up with oral competence in a language . |
| 7 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |
| 8 | Two flattened ‘ U ’ yokes protrude from the facia , which in ‘ IL is nicely laid out with modern avionics to IFR standards including DME , glideslope and transponder . |
| 9 | You wo n't see all this fancy formatting on your document ; it 's all carried out by coded instructions . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's all simulated out of woven soya protein . ’ |
| 11 | Work is only carried out during normal working hours , Monday to Friday . |
| 12 | This was not to imply that planning is an activity which is only carried out by senior management . |
| 13 | Playing Richard is so bound up with physical attitude , and I think that as actors we are not well enough equipped to meet that kind of physical thinking in that kind of role . |
| 14 | We all know in very broad terms that locality is somehow bound up with social relations and social change . |
| 15 | Thirty-nine years after Roy became a schoolboy football star on the front page of the then new comic , Tiger , he is finally bowing out of big time . |
| 16 | The population of aphids is normally kept down by other animals that feed on them . |
| 17 | This is normally run off with other effluents without difficulty , but care may be needed if the waste water contains soap , because insoluble lime soap may precipitate in the drains and cause blockages . |
| 18 | It is normally controlled dually by psychogenic effect from the forebrain and by reflex effect direct from the spinal cord , but the two effects can work independently . |
| 19 | School cleaning in Lincolnshire is already carried out by private contractors . |
| 20 | There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps . |
| 21 | The installed heron is already banking away on invisible air forces , away from the mayhem . |
| 22 | The story is largely made up of legendary motifs , biblical recollections and Christian hostility ; it is after all meant to explain how the Christians took over a Jewish synagogue in Antioch which preserved , according to another source , the mantle of Moses , the surviving fragments of the Law tables , the keys of the Ark and other treasures . |
| 23 | In Whitehall the contest between the spenders and the controllers is largely played out behind closed doors ( Heclo and Wildavsky , 1981 ) . |
| 24 | Brown mustard is the one grown commercially as it is a shorter plant , at 120–150cm ( 4–5ft ) and the seeds do not fall off easily ; it is largely used instead of black mustard , and has a slightly less hot flavour . |
| 25 | Although a native of such areas as the Middle East and the Caucasus , it is largely used only in French cooking . |
| 26 | We have already established that conflict is best handled not by clever lips for healthy friendships , but by self-understanding , well-practised interpersonal skills for listening and the resolving of differences , and the careful application of God 's principles for the specific areas of life and experience in which we find ourselves . |
| 27 | They are not suitable instruments for exploratory research , which is best carried out by in-depth investigation of a small number of speakers . |
| 28 | Examination and determination : The government should acknowledge that the handling of asylum applications is best carried out by qualified interviewers with knowledge of conditions in the applicants ' country . |
| 29 | The presence of infection is usually noted only during routine faecal examination . |
| 30 | For me , however , the performance is a revelation , unearthing a vast amount of inner detail that is usually glossed over in other recordings . |