Example sentences of "[pron] is [vb pp] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have had no choice but to take on board a sexuality which is defined in terms of its difference from the male , and therefore mystified ; which has been derived from biology and based around reproduction . |
| 2 | The static , closed image of the literary text that goes with the concept of structure is replaced by a dynamic , open one which is expressed in concepts like play and practice . |
| 3 | Depression , which is expressed in tears , can follow or else a sense of outrage at not being taken seriously , which can explode in the form of tears of rage . |
| 4 | Then again the painting illustrates in a very concrete fashion the pull Picasso felt between the desire to give forms an explicit , volumetrical treatment , and the need to flatten them up onto the picture plane ( compare , for example , the almost sculptural treatment of the breasts and the arms with that of the head , which is rendered in terms of two flat planes ) . |
| 5 | Try Fabriano 4 , from Osborne & Butler , which is supplied in rolls ( 1.5 by 10m ) and pads of loose sheets . |
| 6 | The reciprocal of the period , measured in seconds , is the pudding 's natural frequency of vibration , which is measured in cycles of movement per second , or hertz . |
| 7 | At the opposite end of the size range is the electro-hydraulic stepping motor , which is used in situations requiring very high torque . |
| 8 | The term " safety-critical " is applied to software ( and hardware ) which is used in situations involving risk to life and limb . |
| 9 | Hepatitis A , formerly known as ‘ infectious hepatitis ’ is caused by the hepatitis A virus , which is excreted in faeces . |
| 10 | There is , however , a fee of $5 per week , or part of , for the permit , which is paid in rupees . |
| 11 | A government review of the Prison Health Service was undertaken in 1990 and recommendations may emerge which will eventually improve the care which is provided in prisons . |
| 12 | The stillness , the sexual aura , that high-definition presence which is found in men and women heterosexual and homosexual and recognised equally by all : at its rawest and most baffling — 'star; quality ’ . |
| 13 | Wanting to be beautiful , wanting people to find us attractive , is a desire which is planted in girls at a very early age . |
| 14 | Myself and English , as she is taught in schools , came to a conflict and gradually to a more and more friendly agreement through the necessity of writing long letters daily to one who was neither a schoolboy nor an elder , the subject of the letters being matters concerning nobody else in the world . |
| 15 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 16 | Traditionally everything is carried in baskets on the head or shoulders , and you can often see these large wicker baskets full of cabbage , potatoes , oranges , apples or whatever is in season waiting at the side of the road for transport to the market in Funchal . |
| 17 | It is defined in terms of wages/salaries , number of perks , capacity for initiative , amount and nature of skills involved , security and the community esteem which might come from obtaining such jobs . |
| 18 | He presumably wants to say that the idea that there can be a general definition of the economic sphere is a residue of the classical claim that it is defined in terms of some universal trait such as human needs . |
| 19 | If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third . |
| 20 | The basic unit of credit is the module and in order to try to standardize its credit value across the many subjects and disciplines of the Modular Course it is defined in terms of notional student effort . |
| 21 | Implicitly it is conceptualized in terms of the personal behaviours which individuals indulge and which are well recognized as risk factors for various diseases . |
| 22 | Although the surface of the ocean basins is relatively uniform it is punctuated in places by volcanoes . |
| 23 | Currently it is engaged in studies in security and peacemaking , Christian attitude to AIDS , finance and ethics , and social vision . |
| 24 | Tarama is the dried , salt-pressed and lightly smoked roe of the grey mullet and it is stocked in delicatessens , good fishmongers and most large supermarkets . |
| 25 | The state of this condensed milk was that it is packed in tins bearing labels . |
| 26 | On one side it is subdivided in inches and 16ths . |
| 27 | Social policy is seen as concerned with the alleviation of social ills ; its objectives are accepted at face value ; and it is analysed in terms of its success in achieving such goals . |
| 28 | It is prized in cultures which use second-order systems of logic and dialectic to reason about the world . |
| 29 | There is no indication that there was any direct connection between the twelve ( of whom it is said in Acts that they stayed in Jerusalem ) and the advent of ministry in the churches in the gentile world . |
| 30 | When it is said in Psalms that the enemies will be smitten in the ‘ hinder parts ’ it has been thought by many people to refer to haemorrhoids , but the description could equally refer to the anal manifestations of secondary syphilis , condylomata lata . |