Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 2 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the kite that Lord Hanson has flown is bobbing around in the political and financial winds . |
| 4 | The evolutionary sequence for the history of mankind which is sketched out in The German Ideology is patchy and in some respects inconsistent , but the main features emerge clearly . |
| 5 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |
| 6 | After dilution , the determination of ammonia is carried out in the normal way . |
| 7 | Also , enforcement is carried out in the same way by the weights and measures authorities , sections 27–33 . |
| 8 | So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear . |
| 9 | The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story . |
| 10 | He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives . |
| 11 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 12 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 13 | A cartridge pleat heading is made up in the same way as pinch pleats ( page 22 ) , but the bases of the small tubes ( pleats ) are not pinched up but left rounded by filling with a soft stuffing such as wadding . |
| 14 | The little booklet , which is turning up in the oddest of places , tells us for instance that ‘ Butter is a natural product — alternatives are different . ’ |
| 15 | If the adventurers want to see what is going on in the Black Pit , all they have to do is rap twice in rapid succession with the rod upon the rail . |
| 16 | The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East immediately tried to suppress that , and that is indicative of the battle that is going on in the Labour party — It was said by the Leader of the Opposition himself . |
| 17 | This is precisely the limitation of state-centrist approaches and why all analyses that begin and end with nation-states have such difficulty in finding explanations of what is going on in the global system . |
| 18 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 19 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 20 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 21 | Customers , or suppliers , or competitors , or even what is going on in the outside world , seem of far less importance than the endless struggle to achieve and operate the perfect bureaucracy . |
| 22 | The industrial paradigm has been based on the idea that the purpose of life is the satisfaction of our physical needs ( including our intellectual need to understand what is going on in the physical universe ) . |
| 23 | I am very pleased to see what is going on in the coming year . |
| 24 | They get to find out what is going on in the local employment scene . |
| 25 | What is going on in the Royal Family ? |
| 26 | This will tell you how much ‘ dead money ’ is tied up in the three products . |
| 27 | The actual request is set out in the first part , which gives the relevant addresses and which may specify a particular mode of service . |
| 28 | A clear example of the ultra vires rule is set out in the following case . |
| 29 | Practice as to translation requirements varies greatly ; although the relevant information is set out in the Practical Handbook published by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague conference , which is held by all Central Authorities , other applicants often fall foul of the rules . |
| 30 | A foreign lawyer becomes an RFL by going through a process of registration which is set out in the 1990 Act . |