Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the amount of information coded is calculated by simply summing the number of times each category from the coding system was used . |
| 2 | This is placed on chemically treated plastic strips which react with cancer cells , turning a fluorescent green . |
| 3 | The army list itself is intended to broadly represent an Orc and Goblin army . |
| 4 | The army list itself is intended to broadly represent the Empire army . |
| 5 | The village of North Ferriby is situated on gently rising ground on the north bank of the river Humber , about seven miles west of the city of Hull . |
| 6 | A currency hoard is a sum of money put together by drawing all its coins from circulation on a single occasion , whereas a savings hoard is formed by gradually adding coins to a hoard over a period of several years ; the difference in the way the coins were collected will affect the internal composition of the hoard . |
| 7 | The government has already gone into court arguing that it is justified in not publishing the report — the case goes to the law lords on April 10th — and does not want to anticipate their decision . |
| 8 | Mrs Varden is hinting at possibly dismissing Miggs . |
| 9 | The fact that flat-dwelling in the public sector has become a relatively stigmatised form of housing in this country means that women dependent on public sector housing are caught in a design ‘ Catch 22 ’ : deviance is punished with badly designed and poorly maintained housing ; conformity is rewarded with better standard living conditions that nevertheless tend to reproduce patriarchal power relations . |
| 10 | Within the garden , particular attention is given to both plant and animal displays . |
| 11 | In this appendix , some further consideration is given to how to draw clear and informative pictures of data ( scatterplots and bar charts in particular ) . |
| 12 | The effect of a change in the relative spot prices , the present value of dividends and the risk-free interest rate on the spread basis is given by partially differentiating this equation with respect to ( S L - S s ) , D L , D s and r to get : The effect of an increase in the difference in the spot prices or an increase in the dividends on the asset in which a short futures position has been taken is ( given F L > F s ) a widening of the difference between the prices of the underlying assets . |
| 13 | He is not impressed by the idea of suggestion as the basis of crowd behaviour , for no explanation is given by simply referring to the suggestibility of people as the reason for crowds being influenced by leaders . |
| 14 | The mole fraction of component A in a mixture of A and B is given by where denotes the number of moles of denotes the number of moles of B and XA denotes the mole fraction of A. |
| 15 | In far too many instances real hard preparatory work is confined to well trained union negotiators . |
| 16 | Most of this form of DNA is confined to actively transcribed genes , where Rich speculates that it may function to keep an appropriate distance between successive molecules of RNA polymerase . |
| 17 | The Japanese are building artificial ski slopes in a new material which is claimed to closely simulate the sensation of snow . |
| 18 | A sticker is earned for initially sitting on the lavatory for the required length of time . |
| 19 | The building sits beside a river and is surrounded by carefully landscaped lawns — a far cry from the old office above the Uxbridge JS , only a mile down the road . |
| 20 | Each application is looked at carefully to make sure that those in most need will receive the service . |
| 21 | The committee , which is to report before Christmas , is expected at least to recommend the lifting of the ban on scientific whaling and to permit a target catch of 100 minke whales . |
| 22 | In a few years the number of BSE infected cattle is expected to drastically fall . |
| 23 | the need to plan operations as efficiently as possible for a given level of resources ( or budgeted level of income if a statutory authority is expected to largely generate its own income ) ; |
| 24 | This increase in greenhouse gases is expected to eventually force global temperatures to rise by 2 to 5 °C , although the full amount of warming will be delayed for a few decades because of oceanic thermal inertia . |
| 25 | The poll also shows that the communist-led Leftist Unity party — capitalising on the high jobless rate and union unrest — is expected to nearly double its vote from 4.6 percent to 8.7 percent , replacing Adolfo Suarez 's centrist party as the third most powerful force in Spanish politics . |
| 26 | It is Unikix 's ‘ openness ’ which is expected to best differentiate the product — while CICS AIX will support only IBM Unix , Unikix is easily ported to any flavour of Unix required . |
| 27 | The Army is expected to officially take over the base later this year . |
| 28 | Virtually every task in the ordinary school involves the use of sight , since the ordinary curriculum is designed for fully sighted pupils . |
| 29 | The day 's cheese-making gets going at around 8am when Karen adds a specially prepared culture or ‘ starter ’ , which is designed to slowly increase the milk 's acidity . |
| 30 | Micro Twist is designed to effectively convert DB15 AUI Ethernet ports to 10BaseT . |