Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each prospective members is checked out by a KSA officer , and the standard of its installations in monitored . |
| 2 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 3 | Nathan is propped up against a rucsac with a cup , plate and two glazed eyes . |
| 4 | At the top of the fire-back the filling is smoothed off at an angle of about 45° . |
| 5 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 6 | The west wall of the gallery is given over to a work 17ft high and over 20ft long entitled Touch the Earth Again , and the ecological sentiment implied by this title is crucial to Setch 's work . |
| 7 | The old , old fashion ! ( 2 ) The fashion that came in with our first garments , and will last unchanged until our race has run its course , and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll ( 3 ) . |
| 8 | By the end this quartet depart the stage in a halting dance of death and Trevitt is rolled up in a carpet , leaving Bristow alone without partner or diary . |
| 9 | The attack is warded off with a forearm block . |
| 10 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 11 | Responsibility for various specific public services is hived off to a range of special agencies , though in each case ultimate responsibility for policy lies with one of the central departments . |
| 12 | There he 's caught up in a gas attack , and when he returns to Swindon he suffers recurring asthma . |
| 13 | Although composition through improvisation is the major thrust of this department 's practice , this is carried through in a manner that allows children to become skilled in the basic techniques of certain musical instruments . |
| 14 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 15 | The French then developed a sexpartite vault , wherein the intermediate pier is carried up as a vaulting shaft to carry a rib which transfers the vaulting compartment into six . |
| 16 | erm employed people have a regular activity erm on a daily basis , and that activity is carried out with a time structure , so that the hours of the day are different from each other , the days of the week are marked out as being different from each other , the weeks are marked out by being different from each other as well , and also you 're situated in time in a different way — you 're on some sort of career , you can see some way in which your life is progressing . |
| 17 | In the latter case , the higher-level program is translated as a whole into a lower-level program as a whole , and that process is carried out at a time before and separate from the time when the ( compiled ) program runs . |
| 18 | This is carried out on a package basis . |
| 19 | Some training is carried out as a goodwill gesture . |
| 20 | The reversal operation is carried out as a day treatment under local anaesthetic at a cost of £950 plus another £50 to £100 for pathology services . |
| 21 | If such doubts exist then an investigation is carried out over a maximum of four months to determine whether the merger should be prohibited or not . |
| 22 | The company 's computer-related business is carried out through a subsidiary , MT Computer Rt , in which IBM Corp took a minority stake in April 1992 . |
| 23 | When the reaction is carried out in a dish , complex moving patterns of coloured bands spontaneously arise , including concentric rings and spirals . |
| 24 | The routine management of the EIB is carried out by a board of directors , of which there are nineteen nominated by member countries , with France , West Germany , and the UK appointing nine directors . |
| 25 | In England and Wales , it is carried out by a branch of the Inland Revenue . |
| 26 | Generally this type of behaviour is carried out by a person in authority and the victim — because that is what the recipient has become — is reluctant or afraid to complain . |
| 27 | Solicitors ' Practice Rule 14 requires solicitors who wish to provide structural surveys or formal property valuations to ensure that : ( 1 ) the work is carried out by a principal or employee who is a chartered surveyor or who holds another professional qualification approved by the Council of the Law Society ; and ( 2 ) an appropriate additional contribution is paid to the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 28 | When , occasionally , police operations have to be investigated , the examination is carried out by a team from another force since the structural separation of forces makes collusion less likely . |
| 29 | Painting is carried out by a team of around 20 artists , all with art-school training , at their studio in Islington . |
| 30 | The work of the Land Registry is carried out by a number of District Land Registries located throughout the country . |