Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of Wordsworth 's poems are attempts to show how we associate ideas ( see ‘ Hartley ’ , p. 80 ) , and he often points out how the second idea — ‘ the echo of the voice ’ in this case — is blended with the first idea on which our conscious attention is fixed — ‘ my eye / Was fixed upon the glowing Sky ’ . |
| 2 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 3 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 4 | Where the relevant movement does not span the change in reference date of January 1987 , the indexation factor is calculated in the usual way using : where RD equals the retail price index for the month on which the disposal occurs ; and RI equals the retail price index for March 1982 or the month on which expenditure was incurred , whichever is the later . |
| 5 | The profit chargeable for income tax purposes is calculated in the same way as if the Bond has been fully encashed at the date of death . |
| 6 | Ann Ab Return ; annual abnormal return ( per cent ) , this is calculated in the same way as the last measurement , the only difference being the time period under consideration . |
| 7 | With deep-taped headings , the depth is calculated from the appropriate row of pockets to the top of the tape . |
| 8 | The belt here is hidden under the over fall , and a further garment , a veil , is worn over head and shoulders . |
| 9 | It is as if in looking at something , the poet discerns an eternal substance that is hidden behind the manifest sense impressions . |
| 10 | is no doubt peculiar ; but , at the same time it is hidden from the external observer by the event horizon . |
| 11 | But the bottom of all the surrounding buildings is hidden by the high brick wall round the garden , and the top of them by the beige silk shades which are half-lowered over the windows . |
| 12 | The camera is an auto-focus and the aperture is adjusted by the internal meter . |
| 13 | Before the family are contacted an appointment is arranged with the nominated paediatrician so that they can see the family within a day of their being approached by the primary health care team . |
| 14 | The genealogy is arranged in the following pattern : |
| 15 | Unless you are certain that the statute has not been amended since that date , take the cumulative supplement , which is arranged in the same way as the main work . |
| 16 | The difference is explained by the greater likelihood of men having held pensionable jobs , both because full-time jobs held by men were more likely to have pension rights than women 's , and because , before the age of retirement , a majority of older women had either no paid job or a part-time job with no pension provision . |
| 17 | The nature of the rebellion is explained by the social character of the island with a cohesive clan structure and social solidarity ; the leaders included radicals who had returned from Japan and schoolteachers . |
| 18 | Indeed , that part of the over-representation of teenagers amongst the temporary labour force which is not explained by the temporary working of persons still at school is explained by the high proportion of the age group in special youth training schemes . |
| 19 | It is explained by the slow growth of GDP in the UK ; consequently , comparisons of GDP per head place Britain in a very lowly position . |
| 20 | This is explained in the financial review on pages 28 and 29 . |
| 21 | This is explained in the next section . |
| 22 | As is explained in the next section , informal arrangements may be preferable . |
| 23 | The graphics subsystem is built around custom chips and plugs into the TurboChannel of the host processor : it 's intended for the Alpha-based Titan 2.0 — a multi-processor graphics workstation — but it will also run on the MIPS-based Titan 1.0 . |
| 24 | The North Atlantic deep-sea ophiuroid fauna , comprising of approximately 120 species , is revised for the first time . |
| 25 | The problems of providing this service are varied , and the view that procedures under local anaesthesia are less satisfactory than those under general anaesthesia is compounded by the current funding emphasis on day case surgery to the detriment of outpatient work . |
| 26 | The want of technique is compounded by the greater nervousness felt when facing out and surveying the whole sweep of exposure below . |
| 27 | The problem is compounded by the poor preservation of organic ( especially plant ) materials in the recent savannah . |
| 28 | This minefield is compounded by the moral nature of the problem ; about what is and is not acceptable behaviour . |
| 29 | In John Pope-Hennessey 's 1965 catalogue of the Kress Collection it is assigned to the second quarter of the sixteenth century |
| 30 | The headship of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory is assigned by the Hebdomadal Council , on the recommendation of the Physical Sciences Board and of the General Board of the Faculties , for specified periods of not less than five years , to a person holding an established academic post in the department , who will usually be a professor or reader or the holder of such a title . |