Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the realms of technical and long document publishing the Macintosh is catching up with PC-based systems ; Interleaf Publisher usually needs a PC/RT or a Sun workstation yet it runs just fine on a Macintosh II . |
| 2 | The best thing one could do I think is to go back to past trends . |
| 3 | Worcester 's population doubled from 4,000 to 8,000 between the mid-sixteenth and the mid-seventeenth century , a rise that is explained equally by natural increase and by immigration . |
| 4 | The failure to enforce laws is explained not by organizational complexity but by the ability of an external business and social elite to control the means of implementation . |
| 5 | The Animosity rule is explained below in complete detail . |
| 6 | One is contracting out to private sector firms the production of goods and services which the state provides free or at subsidized prices to consumers . |
| 7 | This course is intended primarily for Environmental Health Officers who wish to broaden the scientific basis of their work . |
| 8 | This publication is intended only as general guidance . |
| 9 | The intensity of the group sessions is broken up with other prison activities , and relaxation . |
| 10 | In some cases , where large aa lavas flow from land into the sea , this is true , and great quantities of steam are generated , while the lava is broken up into small glassy fragments which pile up in thick heaps at the front of the flow . |
| 11 | Plan the layout so that the page is broken up into short paragraphs with sub-headings and highlighting through the use of emphasised test and underlining giving the message impact and more chance of getting through . |
| 12 | The development department is broken down into product-oriented sectors which , in turn , are divided into discipline-oriented units . |
| 13 | A second principle is that a difficult task ( and nobody doubts that dieting can be very difficult ) is far easier to accomplish if it is broken down into small , manageable pieces . |
| 14 | The required action is broken down into small segments and a reward is given when the next segment of action is correctly performed — even if this is done by chance . |
| 15 | If a sponge is forced through a fine gauze sieve so that it is broken down into separate cells , these will eventually reorganise themselves into a sponge , each kind of cell finding its appropriate place within the body . |
| 16 | The strong linear flavour emphasizes , of course , the flatness of the picture plane and this effect is further strengthened by the fact that the entire picture surface is broken down into angular forms of almost equal size , which are all dealt with in the same vigorous technique . |
| 17 | The substrate ( carbohydrate , fat , protein ) is broken down into pyruvic acid ( 3C ) . |
| 18 | Instead , the animal may use up much of the ‘ reserve ’ oxygen ( held principally in the muscles , bound to the pigment myoglobin ) ; and , more significantly , it will derive much of the energy it needs by anaerobic respiration , in which sugar is broken down to lactic acid , without the use of oxygen . |
| 19 | All the information about an object is stored on the computer within what is called a hierarchical database , meaning simply that the information is broken down from broad categories such as ‘ geography ’ into more specific ones such as ‘ continent ’ , ‘ country ’ , ‘ region ’ and so on . |
| 20 | The offline workload is broken down by Offline into 15 minute portions ie. it will estimate what can be achieved in 15 minutes and then carry out that activity before assessing whether time permits any further work to be achieved . |
| 21 | The table top and the bottle provide the main compositional accents , while the remainder of the surface is broken down in secondary vertical and horizontal sections . |
| 22 | In other words , although the rule is broken all the time , it is broken deliberately for particular effects , which we would not perceive if the rule did not have some psychological reality . |
| 23 | According to Tillich , the way in which God is filled out with concrete symbols in the Christian tradition is by the use of certain aspects of man 's finite experience . |
| 24 | Example 39 is a canon by inversion at the 7th from Bach 's Musical Offering in which the ‘ royal theme ’ is filled out with additional notes of a chromatic nature : |
| 25 | They can not send us a box that is filled only with good apples , there has to be one that is bruised . ’ |
| 26 | In a board reorganisation , Sir Brian is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 27 | MAURICE SAATCHI , who with his brother Charles created Saatchi & Saatchi , the world 's biggest advertising group , is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 28 | Daryl Foster is stepping down as Western Australia 's coach after 17 seasons . |
| 29 | It is formed directly from soft tissue ( mesenchyme ) and not by ossification of cartilage and it belongs to the rare class of bones known as membrane bones . |
| 30 | This is formed mainly of blue-green algae and makes an efficient sediment trap . |