Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [is] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In this sense it is first and foremost the executive agency of the mind and is charged with the fundamental functions of decision-making and surveillance of the input from the senses as well as sensations arising from the instinctual drives of the id .
2 The dome is protected by a timber roof and is tiled on the exterior .
3 The new Executive Committee is now poised to take the membership of the IBOA into the future and is charged with the task of navigating the difficult course that lies ahead .
4 Muelle Deportivo is protected by its own breakwater and is located in the southern extremity of the main harbour .
5 The sense of right here goes well beyond the simple assertion of customary practice and is strengthened by the involvement of the local Member of Parliament and the approval of the justices at sessions .
6 A true ham is the whole rear leg of the pig and is cut from the carcase before it is prepared .
7 Does the Minister agree that , as Northern Ireland has the fewest days lost through stoppages or industrial action and is governed by the same industrial relations legislation as Great Britain , it should be in a special position to attract inward investment ?
8 It is perched on top of a rock just off the Normandy coast and is connected to the mainland by a causeway ( 435 ) .
9 The shape of the Earth determined in this way is known as the geoid and is represented by the surface defined by mean sea level over the oceans and the extension of sea level along imaginary canals across the continents .
10 ‘ An administrator is a creature of statute and is appointed over the affairs , business and property of a company falling within the definition of company in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 .
11 The ISMA , the main trade body of eurobond dealers was made a recognised overseas exchange under the Act and is overseen by the Securities and Futures Authority .
12 Malekith is sealed within his great black armour and is hailed as the Witch King .
13 Spunk accepts a glass or two of firewater and is led to the sack , where he proceeds to give her the pasting of a lifetime .
14 In the first one , he is content at the beginning , but then we begin to see , at the end of this part , that he is dissatisfied with his status , his loneliness and is cared by the criminal ‘ underworld ’ .
15 John Steel Lewes was buried in the desert and is listed on the El Alamein memorial as having no known grave .
16 A two-part special on Malta starts in this issue and is concluded in the February FlyPast .
17 TSTSTSTS … , the other of which lies to the right of the stable manifold of the origin and is represented by the doubly infinite sequence ( with mark ) …
18 ‘ Aqua Fortis ’ intros with a gentle lapping of waves before thickening into a pulsing yet controlled hypno-technological dream and is supported by the scary ‘ Asylum 3 ’ , which involves a story about some magic toys and sets up the rest of the track for a chilling rollercoaster ride into a spooky world that you really do n't want to enter .
19 Coastal Protection is the responsibility of riprian owners ; however I would point out that Port Edgar Harbour belongs to the Council and is administered by the Planning Department .
20 This is a straightforward service contract between the client and the software developer and is covered by the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 .
21 One 's normal identity loses its hold and is replaced by the feeling : ‘ I am the act of giving birth ’ .
22 Collaborative research is an important feature of the Institute and is undertaken within the Division and with other institutions in the Edinburgh area including the AFRC Roslin Institute , the MRC Unit of Human Genetics , and departments of the University 's Faculties of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine .
23 We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ .
24 Only in one circumstance can this aggregation take place : where the parent sets up a settlement for the benefit of that child and the income arises from that settlement and is paid to the child .
25 In Mensch 's theory the cluster of innovations comes in the depths of recession and is sparked by the low level of profits .
26 This is a measure of the internal friction and is related to the complex moduli by
27 The kitchen is thus three steps down from the living-room floor level and is paved with the same material — York stone slabs approximately 60mm ( 2–1/2in ) thick , below which a low-pressure piped hot water central-heating system is installed .
28 Slavery was not exactly an enviable affair , its memory haunts much of our literature and is aggravated by the recent Colonial past of many nations .
29 This is known as the package index and is obtained in the following way for each package :
30 A dependent wife 's pension is included in her husband 's income and is offset against the married man 's tax allowance .
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