Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apse is widely believed to represent the peak of Gothic architecture in Italy and was completed at a time when many of the architects working on the project had been brought in from Germany . |
| 2 | Abraham 's story is widely used to justify the irrationality of faith . |
| 3 | This exemption is widely used to exempt the distribution of confidential material such as long form reports , business plans and investment memoranda to small groups of potential investors . |
| 4 | The move is widely expected to see the society — which is currently a tied agent of Standard Life for the sale of investments — reviewing the options for starting its own life-assurance operation . |
| 5 | The real-time board computer is presumably intended to supersede the company 's HP1000 technical and industrial minis , though it does n't say so . |
| 6 | This means that , although it was originally intended to publish a longer work , it was never completed and that the three volumes out of the planned six , or some other combination , are all that will ever be available , unless some other author is eventually commissioned to complete the job . |
| 7 | Moses is expressly commanded to count the people upon entering the Sinai wilderness to ensure that they can subsequently be accounted for . |
| 8 | The affidavit can also be sworn by some person such as a director , company secretary or similar company officer , or a solicitor , who has been concerned in the matters giving rise to the petition , or by some responsible person who is duly authorised to make the affidavit and has the requisite knowledge . |
| 9 | The army sets out on its way to France , and Roland is duly posted to lead the rear , together with the flower of Charlemagne 's feudatories , the twelve peers of France . |
| 10 | This is made particularly difficult because no specific psychological mechanism is necessarily proposed to explain the relationships underlying the effect . |
| 11 | It is constantly adapting to meet the requirements of its customers . ’ |
| 12 | This lining is highly folded to increase the area for the absorption of nutrients . |
| 13 | Holding the mussel with both forefeet , it begins pounding it on the rock until it is sufficiently broken to allow the otter to extract the flesh with its teeth . |
| 14 | While the university is taken to stand at " the apex of the educational edifice " , its position there is sufficiently elevated to cause the writers of the Report to retreat ( in this instance only ) into a narrow conception of their frame of reference , thereby justifying a refusal to address the work of the universities as a whole . |
| 15 | This ensures that the patient 's conscious mind is sufficiently relaxed to allow the subconscious to offer up whatever it may choose to reveal . |
| 16 | But Mr Rychetsky argues that the Liberal Club is merely trying to safeguard the reforms by winning popular support for them . |
| 17 | The C&G claims the cash distribution is merely designed to bring the reserves of the two societies in line . |
| 18 | After sleeping on the split decision loss of his WBO super-bantamweight title to Puerto Rico 's Daniel Jimenez at the Lewisham Theatre , McKenzie and Duff both feel there is enough left to offer the world scene . |
| 19 | The UK is only beginning to realise the potential of partnerships ; education has been shy to join hands with business and vice versa , but it has to happen . |
| 20 | The vet is only trying to assist the cat , but there is no way that the animal can associate the injection , or the forcible administration of a medicine , with its feeling healthier later on . |
| 21 | Although in word-processing this key acts in the same way as the typewriter lever that moves the paper up one line , on a computer it is only used to force the word-processor to move one line — usually at the end of a paragraph . |
| 22 | Remember : keep your hands on the mast — the rope is only used to raise the rig . |
| 23 | Thus if the chargee is entitled to payment on demand he is not required to give the company a reasonable time in which to raise the funds to make payment and is only required to give the company time in which to put into effect the mechanics of payment . |
| 24 | The first player is only allowed to fill the spoon on three occasions . |
| 25 | Clause 8.1.1 is so worded to circumvent the problem by which any time given by a creditor to a debtor could have the effect of releasing the guarantor from its obligations . |
| 26 | Plasma is apparently used to raise the levels of protein in the body and blood to raise the level of oxygen , but both it appears are equally unacceptable to a committed Jehovah 's Witness as being , or being derived from , the body tissues of another . |
| 27 | Nobody is better placed to understand the pain and loneliness of the stand-up comic better than Steve Martin . |
| 28 | Mr. Routley added : ‘ We believe that a charitable trust dedicated to conserving railways is better equipped to revive the WHR than a county council . |
| 29 | But Chevenement has created a body which is better equipped to achieve the objectives laid down in the law . |
| 30 | DUDLEY Moore is finally going to catch the chickens in the Tesco advert . |