Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 TV hostess Amanda de Cadenet is shaping up beautifully as a mum .
2 Each criterion is broken down further into a number of different categories with varied weighted values .
3 The excess sail is rolled up neatly around the mast out of the way and still I 've good a good sail shape .
4 It should be noted in all these changes that an underlying Government objective is to pass on much of the cost of training to the industry .
5 Clearly , the predisposition of the parents is carried down partially to the children .
6 Distribution of United Distillers brands in New Zealand is carried out principally by the Magnum Corporation .
7 I do not think that people in Cornwall want to allocate blame at the moment , but they do want to ensure that the environmental clean-up is carried out both in the short term and the long term without hold-ups .
8 This validation is carried out either by a SCOTVEC team if it 's a private centre or by the Director of Education if it 's a local authority centre .
9 Currently , external course assessment is carried out either by the organization providing the course , or by individual users for the benefit of their own authorities .
10 Grouse shooting , for example , occurs only during a fixed period each year , whilst military training is carried out periodically throughout the year .
11 All day-to-day work on LIFESPAN is carried out interactively with a Visual Display Unit ( VDU ) .
12 Well the centre is made up largely of the president er and the congress but the congress is made up of politicians elected from the states local , local politicians locally accountable .
13 The encoder is set to generate a position pulse corresponding to a 0° switching angle and this pulse is fed back directly to the phase excitation circuit , when the appropriate position is reached during the first step .
14 The bill of exchange is written out initially by the seller who becomes the drawer .
15 Shower mixers take their supply from the bathroom hot and cold pipes ( thermostatic shower mixers do not run hot when cold water is drawn off elsewhere in the house ) .
16 A lethal tree is growing out horizontally from the righthand bank , not visible until you are committed to the bend .
17 We train the staff to know how to do their job , and we tell them what is going on elsewhere in the Hotel .
18 The Berg , with all its elusive nuances and its stormy outbursts ( in the orchestra as well as in the solo part ) , is graphically outlined here , with the weight and support of palpable involvement in what is going on emotionally in the music 's undercurrents .
19 But most of the work is going on actually in the auditorium where they 're stripping out all the wood er and putting in great big holes where they can put the fire exits in .
20 Research on methods for controlling pests without chemicals is going on all over the world and the latest greenfly predator to come under scientific scrutiny is the lacewing .
21 That was fun , compared to what is going on now at the NEA .
22 High on the wall of my room , near the open window , waiting for the lights to come on , a gecko is clinging on hopefully to the knobbly plaster .
23 Be that as it may , the intuitive reality of such structures is borne out also by the fact that generations of language teachers have recognized that they have a leading role to play in the initial stages of learning , because of what I have called their valency or combining power .
24 A huge cast of characters — each of whom are given intermeshing chapters to narrate the US perspective on the mess and sacrifice of World War Two — is flung out all over the globe .
25 Advertising revenue is holding up well in the Down Recorder says managing director Colin Crichton .
26 A close family friend said : ‘ Everyone is getting along famously considering the circumstances .
27 Where there are complicated angles in the shoulders I generally find that the most straightforward method is to mark off directly from the parts to which the rail is to be jointed .
28 Some of that has to do with the guitar — we need material which is set up more for the guitar . ’
29 The nature of the political horse-trading ahead if the region is to gain a status potentially worth many millions of pounds is set out clearly in a paper to be considered by a meeting of the commission today .
30 The luxurious cream decor is set off beautifully by the patterned curtains .
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