Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 By lining a perforated box with filter matting , covering with a layer of gravel , and filling with planting media and bog plants it 's possible to set up a vegetable filter over the back of a tank .
2 As is indicated in the chapter on teaching in role , it 's possible to set up the pre-requisites through carefully chosen opening lines .
3 To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from .
4 Alexa , who lives with her parents in a village near Maesteg , Mid Glamorgan , is due to carry out a second week of jury service from Monday .
5 The UK government , which is due to take over the presidency in the Council in the latter half of 1992 , will set the enforcement of existing Community legislation as a top priority during its presidency .
6 Aeroflot is due to start up a Stansted to St Petersburg service on March 28 and has indicated it might apply for transatlantic routes later in the year .
7 From the seller 's point of view , rather than expose himself to the vagaries of litigation , and the need to negotiate with each buyer as to exactly what remedies are appropriate in each case , it is preferable to set out a specific and detailed procedure which deals with the remedying of defects .
8 ( It is possible to set up a system to gradually add your tank water while discarding the shop water but this should not be necessary ) .
9 If , at the time the contract is made , it is possible to point out the particular goods upon which the parties have agreed , then those goods are specific .
10 Each tail movement or posture tells us ( and other cats ) something about the animal 's emotional condition and it is possible to draw up a ‘ de-coding key ’ , as follows :
11 At the end of the overview phase , it is possible to draw up a second interview plan and the next , longer , phase aims to fill in the detail .
12 On one hand , it is possible to pick out a dominant instance by its relationship with other aspects of a social structure .
13 There is still some way to go before we have an agreement on economic and monetary union , but the discussions so far have shown that it is possible to thrash out a sensible position in negotiations .
14 With practice it is possible to speed up the procedure by keeping one hand on the carriage and using the other to manipulate the stitches with the transfer tool .
15 It is possible to build up a design through various tones by repeated immersions in the acid and stopping-out with varnish .
16 If this is the same person as the author of the Gospel then it is possible to build up a picture of him .
17 It is valuable to collect information from the family network , and from involved professionals , as by weighing up and balancing different contributions it is possible to build up a picture of recent events to complete an assessment .
18 In cases like the French verb system it is possible to build up a drill containing all the tenses of the verb and all the pronouns within the framework of one drill .
19 From the response of these waves as they travel through the Earth it is possible to build up a general picture of the properties of its interior .
20 However , using this facility , it is possible to build up a library of machine code utilities for use by a number of programs .
21 Thus it is possible to build up an accurate map of which etchings were printed together and so establish their place in a general chronology .
22 Thus by fixing a suitable exposure , at which some cells contain logic 1 and the others logic 0 , it is possible to build up an image of the view area .
23 By textual analysis of documents it is possible to build up an impression ; we shall conclude that Paris was a significant cradle of modern conducting .
24 It is possible to make up a tube by winding and gluing layers of brown paper round a suitable former .
25 This completes the three Nordic countries , where it is possible to make up an international champion .
26 The fact that it is possible to make up an Irish champion in one week draws not only a high proportion of exhibitors from the north , but also many exhibitors from the UK who travel by ferry and aeroplane to take part in what is known as The Circuit .
27 Here , and probably only from the air , it is possible to make out a large area , still recovering from a heather fire which several years ago set alight the peaty turf which burned below the surface for several weeks .
28 Higher rate taxpayers face a liability to an extra 15% tax if the income is withdrawn , but it is possible to roll up the interest and take it in a year when the investor is only a basic rate taxpayer .
29 Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained .
30 From this it is possible to work out a recipe for some common ailments .
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