Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcohol is broken down by the chemicals called enzymes in the liver through which blood circulates once every four minutes . |
| 2 | The disc is filled out with the tone-poems Pohjola 's Daughter and En Saga , the latter ( I always think ) just five minutes too long . |
| 3 | It is a top-down approach in that the entities are identified first , followed by the relationships between them , and then more detail is filled in as the attributes and key attribute(s) of each entity are identified . |
| 4 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 5 | Its lemon fragrance is given off by the leaves without the need to rub them , unlike lemon balm and , even when dried , continue to be pungently scented for years , so that they constitute an excellent ingredient for potpourris . |
| 6 | Fuller information than is given by about the fluctuations at a single point can be obtained by measurements of , etc . |
| 7 | Thus , despite the formalization of a system of state subsidy with the foundation of the University Grants Committee , any fears that university autonomy might be lessened were considerably allayed by the known attitude of the President of the Board of Education , H. A. L. Fisher , enshrined in his dictum : " The state is , in my opinion , not competent to direct the work of education and disinterested research which is carried on by the universities . " |
| 8 | An analysis is carried out of the relations between dopamine and motor functions . |
| 9 | Robert Hassan inspects all returns for their validity and between them , a daily check is carried out on the adjustments of each loom . |
| 10 | It is important that planning is carried out by the managers involved in the activities of a business so that they can relate to the plan and feel that the plan is their plan . |
| 11 | Investigation in these areas is carried out by the police . |
| 12 | Outside the governmental research activities major work is carried out by the universities , through departments of social administration and social policy , sociology , applied social science , social medicine and so on . |
| 13 | The tree is caught up in the constellations . |
| 14 | The incorrectly fitted coping is sorted out by the skaters allowing full skate action to commence but not for long . |
| 15 | In the seemingly endless , and to male ears repetitive , chatter that goes on among women … a massive and encyclopaedic confidence is built up in the gossipers … gossip serves exactly the same grooming functions for the women as poker for the men … |
| 16 | Another avid audience is made up of the enzymes which add phosphate groups to proteins , some of which help in the production of impulses . |
| 17 | For Paul , that offering is made up of the lives of the many Gentiles who have turned to faith in God . |
| 18 | The text of the book is made up of the scripts of programmes broadcast in a radio series and then edited and developed . |
| 19 | The greatest collection of letters to have survived from post-Roman Gaul , however , is made up of the poems of Venantius Fortunatus , many of which are verse epistles . |
| 20 | In a many-to-many binary relationship , the relationship becomes a member record , its key is made up of the identifiers of the entities of the conceptual data model which the relationship was linking and if the entity is the carrier of attributes , these become fields of that record . |
| 21 | The former is made up of the utilities of the various classes or groups in society , while the latter is the utility of the community as such , discussed by Pareto in terms of maximisation of national military and political power . |
| 22 | The Auditing Practices Committee ( from 1991 , known as the ‘ Auditing Practices Board ’ ) of CCAB Ltd ( which is made up of the councils of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland , the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy , and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants ) issued an Explanatory Foreword which explains the scope and authority of Auditing Standards and Guidelines . |
| 23 | The practical effect of this provision is that if an MNP is formed by , say , a merger of a foreign legal firm and an English firm , the firm name used by either may be adopted as the name of the MNP if it is made up of the names of present or former principals who are or were lawyers ; a new name may be used derived from the names of one or more present or former principals of either firm ; a name previously approved by the Council may be used ; or application may be made for approval in writing by the Council of a name which does not otherwise comply with the requirements of rule 11(1) ( A ) . |
| 24 | Much of the difference between costs and revenues is made up by the losses of owners . |
| 25 | The idea of a triangle is made up from the ideas of being a closed figure , and having three straight sides ; the idea of gold from those of yellowness , malleability , and fusibility . |
| 26 | A price is settled and the fish is pushed back down the stairs , flumpity , flump , bump . |
| 27 | This can be seen as a system for design in which the mapping of function on to the geometric domains is raised to the next level in which the requirement to manage and control the process is mapped on to the sub-processes or departments . |
| 28 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 29 | As we have seen , the long-lived gene as an evolutionary unit is not any particular physical structure but the textual archival information that is copied on down the generations . |
| 30 | Every week a readiness roster or ‘ go-team ’ is drawn up with the names of three or four Operations Inspectors and three or four Engineering Inspectors who are ready to go to an accident site at a moment 's notice . |