Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charm of his style , the persuasiveness of his appeal to history , the breadth of his understanding , the way in which earnestness is blended with joyfulness in his religion — and all things pervaded by reason and good sense — have won disciples for Hooker in all subsequent generations . |
| 2 | In the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible , which is an important part of the sacred literature of all three religions , God is likened for instance to a judge , a king , a midwife and a mother eagle . |
| 3 | The change of allegiance on the part of individual scientists from one paradigm to an incompatible alternative is likened by Kuhn to a ‘ gestalt switch ’ or a ‘ religious conversion ’ . |
| 4 | If variation in breeding success is calculated for stags of above a year old ( the age of sexual maturity ) , it greatly exceeds more realistic measures of variation in breeding success such as variation in seasonal success within cohorts or lifetime success ( see Table 23.3 ) . |
| 5 | Viscosity varies greatly with temperature and the table of timings provided is calculated for analysis at the standardized temperature of 20°C . |
| 6 | This relief is calculated with reference to an assumed general rate liability for 1990/91 which is £248 . |
| 7 | A week 's pay is calculated in accordance with a series of statutory rules . |
| 8 | If the auction process fails — for example because no bids are received — the shares remain in the ownership of the former holder and the dividend is increased to a rate , known as the default rate , which is calculated in accordance with a prescribed formula . |
| 9 | Example 4:4 Turnover rent YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days : ( 1 ) the annual sum of £ ( " the basic rent " ) ; and ( 2 ) such sum as is calculated in accordance with the Schedule hereto ( " the turnover rent " ) SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " gross turnover " means the aggregate of all sums : ( i ) received by the tenant in return for goods supplied or services rendered in the course of any trade or business carried on by him in the demised property or partly in the demised property and partly elsewhere ; and ( ii ) payable to the tenant by any person in consideration of the use or occupation of the whole or any part of the demised property ( b ) " a rental year " means a period of twelve calendar months beginning on ( c ) " net turnover " means the gross turnover less : ( i ) any sum actually paid by the tenant to HM Commissioners of Customs and Excise by way of VAT or other tax chargeable on the supply of goods or services ; ( ii ) any sum refunded by the tenant to his customers in respect of defective or unsatisfactory goods or services ; ( iii ) per cent of any sums received by the tenant in return for services for which orders are received at the demised property but are performed wholly elsewhere ( d ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( 2 ) The turnover rent for a rental year shall be : ( a ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ and ( b ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ ( 3 ) Within one month after the beginning of each rental year ( time being of the essence ) the tenant shall deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant of the tenant 's gross turnover and net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year . |
| 10 | Where the transfer between husband and wife is one on sale , the fee is calculated in accordance with Scale A , of the 1992 Fee Order on the amount of the consideration . |
| 11 | People who become disabled as a result of industrial injury or disease may also claim disablement benefit , which is paid in compensation for the disability itself , and is calculated in relation to the assessed level or percentage of disability suffered as a result of employment . |
| 12 | Where the entitlement to dividends in respect of non-equity shares is calculated by reference to time , the dividends should be accounted for on an accruals basis . |
| 13 | Where shares are issued by way of or in substitution for dividends , and the value of the shares issued is calculated by reference to the value of the dividend payable on any class of shares , the value calculated for this purpose should be reflected in the profit and loss account as an appropriation of profit . |
| 14 | This allowance is calculated by reference to the RI and the RD factors . |
| 15 | Relief is calculated by reference to the difference between an assumed rate bill for 1989–90 and the community charge which your authority would set if authorities in the area were spending in 1990–91 in line with assumptions made by the Government . |
| 16 | The amount of margin needed is calculated by reference to both the price of the underlying security or index and the exercise price of the traded option . |
| 17 | Example 4:3 Index-linked rent : upwards only YIELDING AND PAYING the annual sum of £ … ( " the basic rent " ) payable quarterly in advance on the 25th of March the 24th of June the 29th of September and the 25th of December in each year and in addition such sum payable on each of the above dates in advance ( " the index-linked rent " ) as bears the same proportion to one quarter of the basic rent as is borne by the figure shown in the General Index of Retail Prices ( " the index " ) for the month immediately preceding the months in which payment of any particular instalment of rent is due to the figure ( which is the figure shown in that index for the month of … ) minus one quarter of the basic rent PROVIDED THAT ( 1 ) if after the date of this lease the index is calculated by reference to a different base date or base figure then the index-linked rent shall be calculated as if that change had not taken place ( 2 ) if the index ceases to be published or if for any reason it becomes impossible or impracticable to calculate the index-linked rent then either the landlord or the tenant may by notice require the rent to be thenceforth reviewed at such times and in such manner as may be agreed between them or in default of agreement be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors who shall have regard to market practice prevailing at the time of such notice in relation to new lettings of property of the same type as the demised property ( 3 ) in no circumstances shall the total rent payable under this lease be less than the basic rent |
| 18 | If the consideration for the takeover is calculated by reference to a formula then Appendix 2 of the Code should be consulted . |
| 19 | Gall bladder volume is calculated by multiplication of the uncorrected bolume by the square of the correction factor . |
| 20 | The value of the work done in some cases ( although less frequently in industrial construction ) is calculated from bills of quantities . |
| 21 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 22 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 23 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 24 | In descent rock features may look quite different , distances are hard to judge and much of the terrain is hidden from view by intervening convexities . |
| 25 | A one-page note to the policy and resources committee of the Yorkshire Water Authority last summer revealed that : ‘ The village is drained by sewers via two outfalls to the Derrings Beck . |
| 26 | The two principal isotopes of oxygen , , are chemically very nearly identical , but modest fractionation between them can occur when oxygen is partitioned between phases in which it is bound in very different ways . |
| 27 | The significance of the data lies in the way that odd nitrogen is partitioned in autumn in the long-lived reservoir of HNO 3 , rather than the temporary reservoir of N 2 O 5 . |
| 28 | When he sets out from Rivendell Boromir blows his horn , the family heirloom , and is rebuked by Elrond for doing so ; but he takes no notice . |
| 29 | The threshold sensitivity of the instrument is adjusted by means of VR1 . |
| 30 | ‘ She 's inundated with work over there she 's just done a 13-part sitcom for CBS , for example . ’ |