Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A country 's real effective exchange rate is calculated by adjusting the nominal , trade-weighted exchange rate for differences in inflation at home and abroad . |
| 2 | Where these special rules apply , as they do in the majority of cases , the taxable investment income of the basic life assurance business is calculated by apportioning the worldwide investment income of the life fund by reference to the ratio of liabilities to UK resident policy-holders to liabilities to all policyholders . |
| 3 | The yield to maturity ( rm ) is calculated by solving the following equation : . |
| 4 | The money yield ( rm ) is calculated by solving the following equation ( assuming that the calculation is made on a coupon payment date so that AI = 0 ) : where S is the number of coupon payments before redemption . |
| 5 | This is explained by relaxing the previous assumption of risk neutrality . |
| 6 | The illogicality of the existing hierarchical model for educational institutions is highlighted by applying the following criteria : |
| 7 | The search space of the simulation is formed by partitioning the real search space 's set of states into disjoint subsets . |
| 8 | The approved issue number is formed by deleting the appended letter ( for latest development issues — e.g. development issue 2.3K is approved as 2.3 ) or by incrementing the issue number ( for latest approved issues — e.g. approved issue 1.3 is approved as 1.4 ) . |
| 9 | With respect to brokers and dealers s.15 of the SEA 1934 is amended by adding the following new subsection : |
| 10 | Like all jigsaws , bevel cutting is undertaken by adjusting the sole plate from 0–45° . |
| 11 | Testing is limited to checking the correct supply polarity and applying power to the board . |
| 12 | Its remit , however , is limited to improving the economic viability of meat production on hill and upland farms . |
| 13 | The effect of consent to treatment by the minor or someone else with authority to give it is limited to protecting the medical or dental practitioner from claims for damages for trespass to the person . |
| 14 | A medium cut is given by setting the front wheels to low , and the rear roller to high . |
| 15 | The work is targeted at identifying the fundamental mechanisms governing dermal penetration of chemicals and developing predictive mathematical models . |
| 16 | The manager 's role is confined to stimulating the subordinate to thinking through what results are to be sought and ways of achieving these . |
| 17 | Here , quantitative work is confined to tracing the relative frequency of occurrence in some globally defined section of speech , controlled for length by an independent measure like number of sentences , pages , or hours of speech . |
| 18 | The council , he says , is committed to achieving the financial savings within the current financial year but that compulsory redundancy will only be used as a last resort . |
| 19 | The Labour party is committed to removing the upper earnings limit for employed persons , but the hon. Member for Oldham , West has not made his party 's policy on the self-employed clear . |
| 20 | The DoH is committed to monitoring the new arrangements until July , but the findings will not be released until then . |
| 21 | Through these companies , GDA is committed to realising the economic potential of the priority regeneration areas of Castlemilk , Drumchapel , the East-End , Glasgow North ( Springburn ) , Gorbals , Easterhouse and Govan . |
| 22 | ‘ Labour is committed to changing the passive nature of our sex discrimination laws to require positive action to promote equality for women … ’ says a Shadow Ministry of Women consultation document . |
| 23 | At one level , EC regional policy is committed to improving the competitive potential of the less favoured regions ( LFRs ) . |
| 24 | ‘ The agency is committed to protecting the public purse from fraudsters who are determined to steal from the taxpayer for their own selfish aims , ’ the minister said . |
| 25 | The PageMaker User Group is committed to increasing the overall level of knowledge about the program so that its use will be improved . |
| 26 | Labour is committed to continuing the political initiative begun by Mr Peter Brooke , Northern Ireland Secretary . |
| 27 | An alternative approach to the equalisation of the geographical distribution of services is to concentrate on improving the physical and social standard of the ‘ undesirable ’ neighbourhoods . |
| 28 | Now the usual type of detector only indicates the magnitude of the potential difference between B and D. Thus , if balance is approached by reducing the in-phase component of , there will be a range of phasor potential differences across the detector , say , to , that corresponds to magnitudes of potential differences indistinguishable from the minimum . |
| 29 | Instead they can occupy the left- and right-hand portions of a single 2n-bit register After a multiplier bit has been examined , it is dropped by shifting the partial product and multiplier together one position to the right . |
| 30 | After a good deal of broad mockery of the group 's thespian pretensions , there follows yet another change of tack as the troupe 's hitherto self-absorbed leader , Genesius ( Louis Hilyer ) , converts to Christianity and is martyred for denouncing the oppressive regime . |