Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coir is blended with a mix of nitrogen , phosphate and potassium fertilizers to form the new compost . |
| 2 | The localized system of medico-pedagogical influence on a child , in so far as it is differentiated in an institution for social education , ought to prevail to the extent that it is in accordance with the natural needs of the child and to the extent that it opens creative prospects for the development of the given structure — biological , social , and economic . |
| 3 | The statement that he overestimated the importance of sex in human psychology is refuted by an examination of his work and opinions . |
| 4 | A trade unionism that is paralysed by an obsession with parliamentary lobbying and television training for general secretaries can scarcely expect to win the wholehearted support even of its own members , let alone women engaged in domestic labour , part-time workers or the unemployed . |
| 5 | This is because the housing element within the grant is calculated for the duration of the academic year ( continuous from beginning of autumn term until the end of the academic year ) . |
| 6 | The cost is calculated with the benefit of advice from independent actuaries at what is expected to be a reasonably stable proportion of pensionable pay . |
| 7 | A student 's weekly expenditure — which is calculated on the basis of the price of a basket of goods in May — amounts to £160.13 . |
| 8 | The economic effects of a service such as education are clearly impossible to quantify accurately , and attempts by economists to calculate returns on investment in education are laden with many assumptions and are unavoidably narrow in approach ; in particular , the financial return is calculated on the basis of a ratio between income and the cost of educational qualifications [ Blaug , 1965 ; Morris and Ziderman , 1971 ] . |
| 9 | The financial cost is calculated on the basis of both direct losses — as a result of reduced earnings for the timber and wood processing industries — and indirect ones in the form of the loss of the forests ' environmental and social benefits , such as their protection of soil and water resources and their tourism and amenity value . |
| 10 | The maximum permitted expenditure is calculated on the basis of a fixed sum plus a limited amount based on the number of electors : in an average-sized English county constituency in 1983 , the ceiling was approximately £4,700 ( just over $7,000 ) . |
| 11 | Your pension is calculated as a proportion of your final pay , which could mean literally the last year you work or for example ( and this is a requirement for controlling directors and those earning over £100,000 ) the average of three consecutive years during the last ten . |
| 12 | the square roots obtained from all the interest category loan components are totalled and then each individual square root is calculated as a percentage of that total . |
| 13 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |
| 14 | Whereas in mechanics the moment is calculated as the product of a force and the distance of its application from a fulcrum , in statistics the moment is computed from the product of the weight percentage in a given size class and the number of class grades from the origin of the curve . |
| 15 | The block grant from central government is calculated as the difference between the GRP and what the authority plans to spend , so long as this expenditure is below a government assessment of what the local authority should spend . |
| 16 | The loss from taking up the unsubscribed shares is calculated as the difference between the market price on the last day of the offer and the subscription price , where n is equal to the number of shares taken up by the underwriters , P , i , m ; is the market price on the last day of the offer , P , i , s ; is the subscription price . |
| 17 | Total change is calculated as the sum of natural change and net international migration and excludes other changes such as movements of Armed Forces , the effects of changes in the definition of population , and other statistical adjustments . |
| 18 | An estimated enrolment figure is calculated by the addition to the UF figure of the U- figure weighted according to previous experience . |
| 19 | The cost or benefit is calculated by the volume of net imports , or exports , times the difference between EC prices and world prices . |
| 20 | It is calculated from the ratio of amplitudes of any two successive oscillations using the relation |
| 21 | The net income from all other sources is calculated from the information in the first interview data set . |
| 22 | In this case the theoretical yield is calculated from the amount of reactant which is not used in excess . |
| 23 | The slope is found from and the intercept from Once a and b are known then the value of y corresponding to every integer value x lying between xmin and xmax is calculated from the equation of the line and a dot is printed at the point x , y . |
| 24 | A discharge from the urethra can sometimes be demonstrated during the medical examination , but , since the urethral opening in the female is hidden between the folds of the labia , such a discharge will not be apparent to the woman herself ; even if she examines herself , the natural moistness of this part of the body will tend to mask any contribution from the urethra . |
| 25 | Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender . |
| 26 | The valley below the adventurers is hidden by a layer of thick mist that seems almost to glow . |
| 27 | Eventually they reach the shallow stretches where their parents spawned and they lie there resting , their heads pointing upstream , flank to flank and so thick that the pale sand of the river bed is hidden by the black of their backs . |
| 28 | If it is right then the coke is hidden among a load of coffee beans . |
| 29 | In contrast , an allegory is a story where the message is hidden in a type of code ; where the characters and/or events really represent other characters and events ; a story where every detail has a meaning . |
| 30 | Occasionally , the real eye is hidden in a mass of spots , sometimes white , and sometimes black . |