Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the realms of technical and long document publishing the Macintosh is catching up with PC-based systems ; Interleaf Publisher usually needs a PC/RT or a Sun workstation yet it runs just fine on a Macintosh II . |
| 2 | And erm this one is slowly closing on that one , this one is catching up on this one at quite a rate of knots . |
| 3 | Their approach is to go back to first principles , looking at the constraints that link objects and events in the real world to what happens in the retinal image and then looking for rules that can be used unambiguously to recode retinal events in terms of the outside world ( Poggio , Torre , and Koch 1985 ; Ullman 1986 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The Irish way is to go back to some shebeen and carry on with the whisky all night long , ’ she replied . |
| 5 | The best thing one could do I think is to go back to past trends . |
| 6 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 7 | A rumour circulates and someone is shuffled off to some distant department . |
| 8 | One is contracting out to private sector firms the production of goods and services which the state provides free or at subsidized prices to consumers . |
| 9 | The intensity of the group sessions is broken up with other prison activities , and relaxation . |
| 10 | In some cases , where large aa lavas flow from land into the sea , this is true , and great quantities of steam are generated , while the lava is broken up into small glassy fragments which pile up in thick heaps at the front of the flow . |
| 11 | Like kung fu , karate is broken up into many styles , each professing to have within its range of techniques the answer to many combat situations . |
| 12 | In fact , the calculation of the new y can be simplified by recognising that , in the notation of Section 8.1 , if the edge p to q is deleted without adding the edge I to J , the tree T is broken up into two smaller sub-trees . |
| 13 | This fascinating program is broken up into several parts . |
| 14 | Life Assurance ( this is broken up into three basic types ) |
| 15 | Plan the layout so that the page is broken up into short paragraphs with sub-headings and highlighting through the use of emphasised test and underlining giving the message impact and more chance of getting through . |
| 16 | The aperture is broken off along one such suture , giving the specimen a pointed margin . |
| 17 | The TriAxis offers three basic modes of operation ( Rhythm , Lead 1 and Lead 2 ) and each of these is broken down into two or three sub-groups , making eight modes ( or if you prefer , tonalities ) in total . |
| 18 | Each group is broken down into many different variants depending on the particular way in which the image is transferred onto the paper ; daisy wheel , ink jet , thermal transfer and so on . |
| 19 | The development department is broken down into product-oriented sectors which , in turn , are divided into discipline-oriented units . |
| 20 | The stringing process is broken down into nine easy to follow stages and the course summary acts as a remember to jog your memory as you go along . |
| 21 | The AIS section is broken down into nine different sections on its own menu page . |
| 22 | Route B : This is broken down into five steps , one of which is the formation of the lattice from its gaseous ions . |
| 23 | A second principle is that a difficult task ( and nobody doubts that dieting can be very difficult ) is far easier to accomplish if it is broken down into small , manageable pieces . |
| 24 | The required action is broken down into small segments and a reward is given when the next segment of action is correctly performed — even if this is done by chance . |
| 25 | If a sponge is forced through a fine gauze sieve so that it is broken down into separate cells , these will eventually reorganise themselves into a sponge , each kind of cell finding its appropriate place within the body . |
| 26 | The CPC international syllabus is broken down into four main parts : |
| 27 | Stage II is broken down into four sections of one week each . |
| 28 | The strong linear flavour emphasizes , of course , the flatness of the picture plane and this effect is further strengthened by the fact that the entire picture surface is broken down into angular forms of almost equal size , which are all dealt with in the same vigorous technique . |
| 29 | At present the market is broken down into three broad sectors : vitamins , worth £90m ; dietary supplements such as evening primrose oil and ginseng , worth £96m ; and fish oils , worth £47m . |
| 30 | The programme is broken down into three sections . |