Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I point it out because it is hidden away in a lot of business about freedom of information and other issues about which he is so keen . |
| 2 | If such a tube is placed vertically into a tank of water the level of the water in the tube will rise above that in the tank . |
| 3 | Each prospective members is checked out by a KSA officer , and the standard of its installations in monitored . |
| 4 | The landscape is broken only by a string of wine villages . |
| 5 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 6 | The only giggle ( not a niggle , this time ) I 've had is that , in common with most of the new GST range , the BoP box is filled mostly with a chunk of pink polystyrene — a case of more is less ? |
| 7 | Nathan is propped up against a rucsac with a cup , plate and two glazed eyes . |
| 8 | MARTINA Navratilova is courted tonight in A Celebration of 100 Women at Wimbledon . |
| 9 | The stage is tucked away like a box in the wall . |
| 10 | Its position as the Epic of the Romantic Age is still not beyond question , firstly because it is treated simply as a verse autobiography , and secondly because it combines poetry and philosophy . |
| 11 | Lyotard 's notion of the figural is formulated partly as a critique of Lacan 's dictum that the unconscious is structured like a language . |
| 12 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 13 | If a complaint is received directly from a member of the public , or if further information about the complaint is needed , the matter will be taken up in correspondence . |
| 14 | All the information on one general subject is gathered together into a FILE . |
| 15 | The west wall of the gallery is given over to a work 17ft high and over 20ft long entitled Touch the Earth Again , and the ecological sentiment implied by this title is crucial to Setch 's work . |
| 16 | The allowance is given either as a trading expense or as a deduction from patent licence income ( see s528 ) . |
| 17 | A list is given here as a reminder : |
| 18 | Anistreplase is given intravenously as a bolus ( 30 units ) and is therefore more easily administered outside hospital than an infusion . |
| 19 | The old , old fashion ! ( 2 ) The fashion that came in with our first garments , and will last unchanged until our race has run its course , and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll ( 3 ) . |
| 20 | By the end this quartet depart the stage in a halting dance of death and Trevitt is rolled up in a carpet , leaving Bristow alone without partner or diary . |
| 21 | Where a person claims possession of land he alleges is occupied solely by a person or persons ( not a tenant or tenants holding over ) who entered into or remained in occupation without his licence or consent or that of any predecessor in title of his , the proceedings may be brought by originating application under Ord 24 . |
| 22 | The attack is warded off with a forearm block . |
| 23 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 24 | The 2% drop in audit and business advisory services is blamed largely on a combination of the recession , fierce competition and ‘ severe downward pressure ’ on fees , while the knock-on effect of clients ' postponing discretionary spending was a 5% drop in management consultancy fee income . |
| 25 | His employers consider homosexuality a ‘ security threat ’ , and so he is interviewed here under a pseudonym . |
| 26 | Responsibility for various specific public services is hived off to a range of special agencies , though in each case ultimate responsibility for policy lies with one of the central departments . |
| 27 | Although composition through improvisation is the major thrust of this department 's practice , this is carried through in a manner that allows children to become skilled in the basic techniques of certain musical instruments . |
| 28 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 29 | The French then developed a sexpartite vault , wherein the intermediate pier is carried up as a vaulting shaft to carry a rib which transfers the vaulting compartment into six . |
| 30 | erm employed people have a regular activity erm on a daily basis , and that activity is carried out with a time structure , so that the hours of the day are different from each other , the days of the week are marked out as being different from each other , the weeks are marked out by being different from each other as well , and also you 're situated in time in a different way — you 're on some sort of career , you can see some way in which your life is progressing . |