Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1 ) If the claim is for money secured by a mortgage or charge , legal or equitable , judgment may be entered only on application to the district judge on notice to the defendant ( Ord 9 , r 7 ) . |
| 2 | This area is very popular for camping in summer , and the lower part of the road is through moorland crossed by levadas where you may be lucky enough to see small wild pigs or , in the summer months , wild ponies as well as sheep , goats and the occasional deer . |
| 3 | The analogizing of knowing to seeing may pervade the concrete experience of coming to know , in the mystic 's vision flooded with light ; or it may be explicit in parable , as in Plato 's of mankind misled by illusory appearance as prisoners in a cave who see only the shadows on the wall . |
| 4 | The burden of the import duty is of course borne by the consumer of the tariff-laden import . |
| 5 | A secondary market exists for these shares , and they fluctuate in value according to demand , which is of course determined by the profitability of the trading on the Exchange . |
| 6 | This is of course exacerbated by the fact that they are now second hand . |
| 7 | The way the beam is reflected from the surface of the disc is of course affected by the presence of the pits , areas where the reflective surface has been burned away during the original encoding process . |
| 8 | Kant 's argument is of course inspired by his unshakeable belief in the synthetic character and the " apodeictic certainty " of mathematical propositions . |
| 9 | And this selectivity is of course justified by my immediate aim , which is phonological rather than sociolinguistic — to discover whether we can reasonably speak of a meat/mate merger in Belfast English . |
| 10 | Our technical staff will be pleased to advise you how best to do this if you absolutely have to , but the best management is of course provided by LIFESPAN , which means limiting yourself to just one process for your live data . |
| 11 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 12 | The sensible measure to use will be market share in the network operating system market says David Smith , the company 's UK systems marketing manager ; Smith puts Microsoft 's current share with LAN Manager at 30% and says that all of those should have switched to NT within a couple of years ; the lion 's share is of course held by Novell Inc , but Smith says the primary aim is not to try and win NetWare users — instead Microsoft will try to ‘ grow the entire market ’ |
| 13 | One example of the impact of the law affecting the work of engineers is from legislation imposed by government through the agency of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 14 | Erm the point I would like to make is is is in part made by Mr Girt , and that is that er with particular reference to Selby . |
| 15 | The damage is in part caused by the increasing incidence of road edges being dug up for laying pipes , cables and power lines . |
| 16 | Washington continues to challenge the scientific claim that global warming is in part caused by emissions of carbon dioxide . |
| 17 | The texture of the novel is in part created by the juxtaposition of dead metaphors and new ones created by slight adjustments to the normal patterns of the language : " … the sun looked down into the top of the dead tree and breathed warmly on the two people " ( p. 142 ) . |
| 18 | An international problem for many years , inflation is in part fuelled by governments printing money simply to maintain standards of living — unfortunately this technique has led to the undermining of the future prospects of the very people it was supposed to help . |
| 19 | Gay culture is in part constituted by a self-reflexive , ironic representation of desire itself , gay and straight , and of the objects of desire , again both gay and straight . |
| 20 | The conceptual hotch-potch of the traditional curriculum , based on subjects which are a random assortment of content-based , concept-based , skill-based and moral-based collections of ideas ( whose confusing absurdity is in part exemplified by the NCC 's cross-curricular skills which are exactly the same as the curricular subjects ) has never been designed from first principles to do the basic job of a curriculum , which is to help achieve aims in the most effective and efficient way . |
| 21 | This reduction is in part explained by the ending of free travel in Lothian for elderly and disabled people in September 1991 and the introduction of a subsidised flat-rate scheme instead . |
| 22 | The first is in part provided by banks in the form of overdrafts , that is , the company may , by agreement , write cheques for larger sums than it has on deposit . |
| 23 | The first is in part provided by banks in the form of overdrafts , that is , the company may , by agreement , write cheques for larger sums than it has on deposit . |
| 24 | The Denmark Farm Conservation Centre is in part financed by the Countryside Council for Wales , who have recognised the experiment as being of national significance . |
| 25 | The courts ' own role in reviewing managerial decisions is in turn defined by their own expertise . |
| 26 | Working for the train company Zentropa , he meets the boss 's daughter , Katerina Hartmann ( the compelling Barbara Sukowa again ) , and is in turn befriended by the entire family . |
| 27 | Each hypothesis is in turn extended by a single step . |
| 28 | Such an ideal does not stand isolated from the practices which strive towards it but interacts with those practices , helps to construct them , and is in turn constructed by them . |
| 29 | The research hypothesis is that each of these aspects exerts influence upon and is in turn influenced by the other two , and the project is designed to establish the precise nature of the inter-relationship . |
| 30 | This seems to suggest F major , but this is in turn contradicted by the F and D of the first violin . |