Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] is [vb pp] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the energy is thrown out of the exhaust pipe and in heat loss from the radiator , and in a erm small losses in friction inside the engine and gearbox , but most of it is lost in this conversion from heat from burning petrol into the mechanical energy of the rotating energy . |
| 2 | Most of it is preserved in some way ; it is transported and various methods are employed to change and enhance its appearance ; it may be prepared or pre-cooked for convenience and finally aesthetically packaged for maximum appeal . |
| 3 | Reason can not decide the truth or falsity of what is revealed in such cases , but can decide whether the revelation is genuine . |
| 4 | On the basis of what is revealed in this survey , there seems to be a very good case for ensuring a maximum involvement of all the teachers in a school in the whole process . |
| 5 | The property of a circumstance that ( 5 ) it necessitates its effect , although we did not pause to consider the matter , is in a way essential to a final element in a definition of a causal circumstance , more particularly a specification of what is included in such a circumstance . |
| 6 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 7 | With their characteristic and pervasive atmosphere of sexuality and sensuality and their erotic tales presented or disguised within verbal play , it is hardly surprising that many have considered " pornography " to be an appropriate term to describe at least a good part of what is found in these fabliaux . |
| 8 | Having systematically run down and denigrated public services since 1979 , they now expect the country to be grateful for being offered lower standards of service than we used to enjoy , and ones that are derisory in the light of what is enjoyed in many other European countries . |
| 9 | The larvae ‘ hatch ’ in the eggs , and their emergence from them is triggered in some way by the arrival of the insect on the skin of the mammal host . |
| 10 | I start from the assumption that we are interested in what is done in any communicative act . |
| 11 | What an evolutionist believes is totally and completely opposite to what is stated in this verse . |
| 12 | There are two open bothies on the route but contrary to what is written in some places , the farm at lonely Carnmore on the Letterewe estate is not inhabited except for part of the year . |
| 13 | Finally , and contrary to what is implied in much of the recent discussion of the " flexible firm " , we were not able to obtain much strong evidence that the use of other forms of " flexible " labour was positively associated with the use of temporary labour . |
| 14 | Contrary to what is implied in much of the recent discussion of the " flexible firm " we found that establishments using either of the two forms of temporary worker were , in general , no more ( or less ) likely than other establishments to use certain other forms of " non-standard " worker — namely part-timers , freelancers and homeworkers — which the survey identified [ see Tables 3.14–15 ] . |
| 15 | Every product undergoes change with the passage of time and sooner or later becomes unsatisfactory , by which is meant in this context that it no longer conforms to its specification . |