Example sentences of "is [verb] [subord] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The zinc is formed whilst cooling along the line from A to E. To the right of E at temperatures equal to or lower than 270°C the solid consists of a mixture of cadmium and the eutectic mixture . |
| 2 | The allowance can not normally be paid for the first time after pension age because it is regarded as overlapping with the retirement pension . |
| 3 | The amount of the pension is not related actuarial to the sums which each recipient has actually paid in contribution ; but the right to receive it is treated as flowing from the possession of a contribution record , and indeed the pension rates are represented as related to the contribution rates , assuming contribution over a full working life . |
| 4 | A teacher is reported as speaking in the following way : ‘ Two huge girls were fighting . |
| 5 | IMI is depicted as lying below the efficient frontier EMF as the investor is engaged in the construction of a series of sub-optimal portfolios by the definition of the efficient frontier itself . |
| 6 | At other times it may be barely admitted to consciousness , if whatever it was is seen as threatening to the self . |
| 7 | Speech production is seen as relying on the reverse process — that is , the ability to translate abstract ideas into speech sounds and to articulate those speech sounds in such a way that they are comprehensible to other people . |
| 8 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
| 9 | To meet the needs of the present , it seems to me that as much precision as possible is used when deciding on the application of a pesticide . |
| 10 | In this way particularization is viewed as operating in the service of categorization , rather than as the counterpart , which provides the possibility of negation . |
| 11 | Putting these sentences into a broader situation reveals that they do not presuppose the same thing and that , in spite of Jespersen 's claim that the infinitive event is represented as occurring before the existence of the gladness , exactly the opposite is the case in the way the speaker represents the situation . |
| 12 | In this district lived ‘ Michelagniolo Buonarruoti ’ and Benvenuto di Giovanni Cellini , while Vasari ‘ Giorgino d'Arezzo pictore ’ is recorded as living in the Santa Croce district . |
| 13 | In both cases however the infinitive evokes a result — something therefore which is conceived as coming after the actual operation of perception . |
| 14 | Secondly , if the heading is read as referring to the California Plan , the term ‘ unworkable ’ is totally incorrect . |
| 15 | By the way , despite what Dove is quoted as saying in the note , there is a direct quotation from his ‘ assigned ’ opera , Figaro : in No. 5 , ‘ The Countess Interrupts a Quarrel ’ , after the clarinet has hinted at the Count 's ‘ Contessa , perdono ! ’ , there is his spouse 's ‘ Più docile io sono … ‘ , the second phrase warmly harmonized à la Steve Reich — a little too sweet for my taste I 'm afraid . |