Example sentences of "is [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUGBY LEAGUE : John Joyner , Castleford 's veteran back row forward who made his Great Britain debut against Australia in 1978 , is to retire at the end of the season , writes John Whalley . |
| 2 | MAMAS AND THE PAPAS vocalist John Phillips is recovering at the University Of California , Los Angeles Medical Centre from a recent liver transplant . |
| 3 | I should imagine she is gazing at the floor , pursuing some thought which has escaped sideways from the main line of march , while he gazes almost anywhere but at her . |
| 4 | There is one large interesting watercolour with a background of the Langdales , a middle ground of Hornby Castle and a foreground of the lower falls at Rydal ; all this is explained at the foot of the picture . |
| 5 | The importance of grazing both cows and sheep over the same land ( either together or in succession ) , both for the good of the sward and the health of the livestock , is explained at the beginning of Chapter 6 . |
| 6 | Young men and underclass men in general are also portrayed in disparaging terms in the book , even though the explanation for their behaviour ( criminality , violence , drugs , hanging round pool halls , lick of responsibility for offspring ) is placed at the door of external forces . |
| 7 | This is placed at the bottom of the cylindrical casing . |
| 8 | The coarsest sieve required is placed at the top of a nest of sieves in which the screen openings become progressively smaller downwards . |
| 9 | For example , when a ball is placed at the top of a hill , it will roll downwards . |
| 10 | Siporax is placed at the heart of gravel which pre-filters the water before it reaches the sintered glass . |
| 11 | At the beginning of each trial food is placed at the end of each arm and the rat left to move from arm to arm , in whatever sequence it chooses , in order to retrieve the food . |
| 12 | To give it maximum prominence the statement concerning factorisation in Q[x] is placed at the end of this section ( 1.9.18 ) . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) Where under an agreement an officer of a regional council is placed at the disposal of a district council for the purposes of this section , that officer may perform the duties of clerk or assistant clerk of the aforementioned boards . |
| 14 | In Homeless History a blown-up snapshot of a young woman , circa 1930 , is placed at the entrance to a room where paper peels away from black mould , shattered plaster exposes beams and woodwork is broken . |
| 15 | As the backswing progresses , the shoulders turn around the spine angle which is pre-set at the address position . |
| 16 | Today 's stage nine is 120 miles from Wrexham to Rotherham and the Milk Race comes to Liverpool city centre tomorrow , the first riders set to arrive at around 2.30pm. finishing line for the stage is situated at the top of the cobbled William Brown Street . |
| 17 | This field is situated at the edge of the Zechstein salt basin and thin beds of halite extend over part of the structure . |
| 18 | The Dorset Square Hotel is situated at the back of Baker Street in , as the name suggests , a charming old square , once the location of the first Lords Cricket Ground . |
| 19 | Morvich is situated at the foot of the vast Beinn Fhada , also known as Ben Attow , a rough-topped mountain seven miles long and of considerable girth . |
| 20 | Easily Accessible : Greenrigg Hotel is situated at the foot of the Caldbeck Fells and only a mile from the Cumbrian Way in the more northern and in summer , less crowded area of the Lake District . |
| 21 | It is situated at the end of a rainbow . |
| 22 | But camp comes to life around that recognition ; it is situated at the point of emergence of the artificial from the real , culture from nature — or rather when and where the real collapses into artifice , nature into culture ; camp restores vitality to artifice , and vice versa , deriving the artificial from , and feeding it back into or as , the real . |
| 23 | Dornie is situated at the point where Loch Alsh branches into two and loses its name , continuing as Loch Duich and Loch Long . |
| 24 | In ‘ Kubla Khan ’ , Coleridge vividly imagines and describes a ‘ stately pleasure-dome ’ of enormous conception , which is situated at the point where the sacred river delves underground into a savage and huge network of caves ‘ measureless to man ’ . |
| 25 | A large cafeteria seating over 300 people and offering full self-service facilities is situated at the rear of the Manor House . |
| 26 | Protostomes , such as annelids and arthropods , are usually regarded as having spiral , determinate embryonic cleavage , and the embryonic blastopore is situated at the rear , at or near the site of the future mouth . |
| 27 | That is a duty which he owes to all those who may have occasion to use the article : and it is a duty which is broken at the time when he is negligent in making the article . |
| 28 | The nine thirty six London Kings Cross service that one is delayed at the moment as is the nine forty two Bournemouth service out of platform five . |
| 29 | Undeniably their faith is genuine , but the weakness is that their faith is developed at the expense of their understanding . |
| 30 | Of course , it may well be that there is a dominant culture within an organisation which is formed at the top and is transmitted downwards through formal and informal mechanisms . |