Example sentences of "is [verb] [subord] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 2 | Such a change would entail the creation of a clearing house , presumably in Brussels , whose job would be to reapportion VAT receipts to ensure that revenue is accrued as now in the country of consumption rather than production . |
| 3 | The prize is seen as well worth the effort . |
| 4 | He ought , whether he remains technically an employee or is treated as a partner or is classified as somewhere between the two ( eg taxed under Sched D on his " salary " ) , to be in a position to know enough about his firm to judge what amounts to a reasonable restriction and not to need the court 's protection if he should have agreed to covenants in stringent terms . |
| 5 | For example , a child who is assessed while slightly under the weather or simply in a bad mood will be likely to perform below par , and a comparison of this assessment with a prior or subsequent assessment will provide a distorted impression of any real changes which have occurred . |
| 6 | In this first type of exclamation , the impression then is that the person who would have been evoked as the subject if the verb were in a finite form is represented as somehow before the infinitive event . |
| 7 | The bare infinitive no longer suffices , however , when its actual spatial support is represented as somehow before the time corresponding to the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 8 | Fourthly , there is the satisfaction of a kind of orthodoxy , perhaps with respect to what is taken as somehow of the greatest significance or fundamentality . |