Example sentences of "[vb pp] is [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an indirect system , the only connection to the rising main usually permitted is the obligatory one going to a drinking water tap in the kitchen ( though some existing houses may have other connections — for a WC , for example ) . |
| 2 | Clearly , one of the invincible conventions of the ‘ Romance ’ label is that desire should not be consummated before at the very least a proposal of marriage has been secured by the heroine — ‘ the only pain permitted is the sweet pain of unfulfilled desire ’ … |
| 3 | What convinces me that this child is deluded is the conflicting reports of the so-called apparition . |
| 4 | Secondly , giving a second full course of vaccine without determining whether the person being vaccinated is an infectious carrier would mean that the person could potentially transmit infection for at least six months before being identified . |
| 5 | Also expected is a hand-held CD-Rom player developed by Apple and Toshiba . |
| 6 | Molar loss is the number of places in the mandible where a tooth should be present but is not ; and molars expected is the total number of teeth that should be present in the available sample of mandibles ( mostly this is 3 per mandible ) . |
| 7 | Included is the actual program code for a finished application called Databox . |
| 8 | Included is the devastating Golden Gun , the pieces of which ( five in all ) are scattered around . |
| 9 | In Canberra last week , he continued to blow as coldly as he had at Twickenham earlier this month and was disappointing , though whether he will be react positively to being dropped is a moot point . |
| 10 | The knowledge that confidence will be respected is an important feature of effective nurse/patient communication , and is incorporated in professional codes of practice in a number of countries . |
| 11 | But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process . |
| 12 | As the last record added is the first in the overflow chain , it is helpful if this physical order is also the logical order of the record keys . |
| 13 | If the lecturer to be deleted is the only one that reports to a particular senior lecturer , then the information that the senior lecturer did supervise a lecturer is lost if the lecturer record is deleted . |
| 14 | It is thought that the mechanism whereby all the genes in the chromosome are inactivated is a chemical modification of the DNA . |
| 15 | The line to be edited is the second line in the file E.CLI . |
| 16 | The dry anus suffers pain ; the penetrated is a humiliated man . |
| 17 | The way in which royal messengers allegedly searched far and wide for a suitable bride ignores the likelihood that the union with Emma was motivated purely by political considerations , while the statement that they sent other sons to Normandy to be educated is a misleading reference to the exile of Emma 's offspring by Æthelred . |
| 18 | The most controversial option being considered is a possible union between the Church of England and Roman Catholics . |
| 19 | The first tax considered is a proportional tax on lifetime income at rate t , with the proceeds being used to finance current government spending . |
| 20 | Oh , this is actually from varieties , this extract and erm , I 'm giving it to you , cos varieties here , but because the other element which we have n't considered is the actual appearance on the page of erm , middle English well this is actually early modern English . |
| 21 | One of the options being considered is an index-linked pension . |
| 22 | What has been rudely shattered is the cosy depiction of British history as the progressive ‘ conquest of violence ’ ( Critchley , 1970 ) which is celebrated in the conventional accounts of the British police ( Reith , 1938 , 1943 , 1956 ; Critchley , 1967 ; Ascoli , 1979 ; Stead , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | One family tradition which is rigorously upheld is the big soul-food blow out which they all enjoy whenever Sheila returns from a tour , or when a TV project is over . |
| 24 | Presented is a veritable battleground of academic crossfire surrounding the alleged misogyny of Degas , by contributors Deborah Bershad , Anthea Callen , Hollis Clayson , Heather Dawkins , John House , Richard Kendall , Linda Nochlin , Griselda Pollock and Richard Thomson . |
| 25 | Although the structure which is presented is an ideal — similar indeed to the Ten Commandments , nevertheless in the same way that the Ten Commandments are relevant to our legal system so the principles which underlie the Pentateuch are relevant to economic life — principally because they express universal truth . |
| 26 | The effect of the maxim is to add to most utterances a pragmatic inference to the effect that the statement presented is the strongest , or most informative , that can be made in the situation ; in many cases the implicatures can be glossed by adding only to the propositional content of the sentence , e.g. " Nigel has only fourteen children " , " the flag is only white " , " Harry only got a fine " . |
| 27 | The picture of studying law as a wearisome task in which lots of dull rules and regulations have to be memorised is a distorted one . |
| 28 | Er the er of course it is more or less Welsh district than they 're they 're very well attended is the Welsh churches . |
| 29 | ‘ To say I am absolutely gutted is a total understatement — but if he thinks this is the end of the matter , he 's got another shock coming . |
| 30 | In ( 19 ) and ( 20 ) we have the less common case of a property extended by an entity , E P ; we continue to assume that a qualified property remains a property : Where we are considering some actual form of words with a view to describing their categorizations and relationships , and especially where the phrases are somewhat more complex , it may be appropriate to partly invert the notation , and to omit the separate representation of the word-meaning , as in ( 21 ) which so depicts the intensional structure of ( 18 ) and ( 19 ) : Qualification is clearly an ordered relation and we shall assume that it is a binary relation ; one of the two elements related is the principal element ( on co-ordination , see Section 1.9 and Chapter 8 ) . |