Example sentences of "and is [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Group was formed on the initiative of Financial Public Relations Ltd and is chaired by ex-MP Sir Robin Chichester-Clark of head-hunters The Welbeck Group . |
| 2 | But Ian Shiels , who works in the warehouse and has been responsible for football activity in the past , is aware of this and is hoping for better things to come . |
| 3 | Shame , his novel of Pakistan , was short-listed for the Booker Prize and is believed by many to be his finest work . |
| 4 | The guest turns the pages and is perplexed by some of the photos . |
| 5 | An all colour production with 13 pictures , this A2 ( 420 x 594mm ) calendar features some of Kos 's best work to date and is printed on high quality art paper . |
| 6 | The text details the methods used in the selected illustrations and is spiced with good advice and instruction . |
| 7 | The Repeater Pistol is a smaller version of the Repeater Hand Gun , and is fired in one hand , leaving the other free to wield a sword . |
| 8 | And the immune system normally functions to protect us in this way , and is regulated in such a manner that it does not attack bits of oneself , but only legitimate foreign targets , and thereby is our ally . |
| 9 | The work is an inward-looking , powerfully searching piece and is played with great beauty and purity of tone and rapt concentration by Marieke Blankestijn and the orchestra . |
| 10 | This procedure is not limited to totally new projects and is applied to significant modifications to existing plants . |
| 11 | This MasterCard will display the University name and logo and is accepted in nine million establishments worldwide . |
| 12 | Confidentiality for the client has always been of paramount importance within the CAB and is accepted by all workers as an essential part of their work . |
| 13 | These forms are a cumbersome sheet , like a medieval scroll , although a short form is available and is accepted by most authorities . |
| 14 | The mandible of Petrobius and other Machilidae ( Fig. 9 ) has a single posterior articulation and is rotated by promotor-remotor movements that bring the molar regions and the apices of opposite mandibles into close apposition . |
| 15 | Poor Pat already thinks he 's been raised from the dead and is destined for some great thing , to help Marcus to save the world ! ’ |
| 16 | Obje objection site D thirty nine extends to some one point two five hectares and is bounded on three sides by hedgerows , trees and tracks , and on the south side by the boundary with existing property . |
| 17 | The software is menu-driven and is split into three main elements : client database ; fee/client ledger ; and time ledger . |
| 18 | Catmint is native to Asia , Europe including Britain , mainly the south , and is grown in cool , temperate regions in North America . |
| 19 | It is often a by-product of intensive livestock rearing and is created by large quantities of animal slurry which is disposed of inadequately . |
| 20 | The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents . |
| 21 | Even so the book has a lot to offer and is packed with useful data . |
| 22 | The Festival Cake below costs £18 ( incl. p&p ) and is packed with sun-dried fruits , cherries , pecan and brazil nuts . |
| 23 | Particles in the form of small flakes take up different orientations in different regions of a flow ; when light enters from one direction and is viewed from another , bright and dark patches reveal the structure of the flow ( e.g. Figs. 4.8 , 16.11 , 17.8 ) . |
| 24 | The permanent-magnet stepping motor has a similar stator construction to the single-stack variable-reluctance type , but the rotor is not toothed and is composed of permanent-magnet material . |
| 25 | The racialization of place , the construction of a political geography in which certain areas like Brixton and White City are coded in terms which mark them out as ‘ front lines ’ of racial confrontation ( inner city/urban jungle/ghetto ) is thus the outcome of complex antagonisms within and between the police force and working-class communities , and is reinforced from both sides . |
| 26 | The whole isolation chamber is housed inside an outer building and is mounted on rubber blocks so that vibration from traffic etc. does not reach the volunteers . |
| 27 | The disk is round to subpentagonal , up to 11 mm in diameter ; and is covered with stubby spinelets with an irregular crown of many points . |
| 28 | Everything , therefore , resides in and is sustained within one absolute consciousness . |
| 29 | This clever name , with its neat evocation of new and old , describes a concept which was developed in Sweden and is spreading to rural areas across the world . |
| 30 | This was the Roman capital of their western empire and is crowned to this day by the massive Porta Nigra , Germany 's finest Roman relic . |