Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference is explained by the greater likelihood of men having held pensionable jobs , both because full-time jobs held by men were more likely to have pension rights than women 's , and because , before the age of retirement , a majority of older women had either no paid job or a part-time job with no pension provision . |
| 2 | The want of technique is compounded by the greater nervousness felt when facing out and surveying the whole sweep of exposure below . |
| 3 | If the bench press is done on a decline , the emphasis is placed on the lower pectorals , giving men a strong outline to the lower chest , and women a muscular development which creates the impression of a larger bust . |
| 4 | Hence the question of democracy is placed in a broader social context , in which a predominant element is the interests and political orientations of social classes which are in conflict with each other . |
| 5 | Yet when it is placed within the wider social and economic context , retirement counselling assumes a breadth and an importance that far transcends the encouragement of useful and meaningful interests and hobbies to fill the ‘ idle ’ hours of leisure . |
| 6 | Zeus had been immemorially worshipped in the Altis , the sacred area between the little Hill of Kronos to the north and the river Alpheus to the south , just above the point where it is joined by the smaller Cladeus which skirts hill and sanctuary on the west . |
| 7 | One way of by-passing philosophical misgivings about the materiality of software is to appeal to the broader mandate of science museums to maintain a material record of technological change . |
| 8 | The tips of the ‘ diamond ’ are again folded to the centre and the process is repeated until a hard conveniently sized pad is formed with the lower surface completely smooth . |
| 9 | Females have two equal sex chromosomes , called ‘ X ’ , but males have only one X chromosome , which is partnered by a smaller one , the Y chromosome . |
| 10 | Company law is examined against the wider background of the Community rules which grant equal access to the markets of other member states , and which harmonise the conditions for the exercise of particular types of business activity . |
| 11 | Occasionally a reservation is received for an older work missed ( or turned down ) when originally published . |
| 12 | This condition is limited by the higher frequency listed . |
| 13 | By the end of Lanfranc 's life the number is given by a later domestic chronicler as a hundred , and it was still rising . |
| 14 | If she has a break of , in this illustration , eight years out of employment to rear to children , and works part-time for most of the years when they are still at school , the lifetime earning profile is given by the lower line . |
| 15 | The clinical literature , then , suggests that in the execution of certain types of movement or sequences of movement the left hemisphere is implicated to a greater extent than the right hemisphere . |
| 16 | Its particular advantage is that everything is contained into a smaller central area . |
| 17 | We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current … |
| 18 | In the Severn Estuary , N. lapillus reaches Sand Point above western-super-Mare ( Boyden et al. , 1977 ) but is confined to the lower shore up channel from Minehead , a distribution pattern that may reduce its exposure to water of reduced salinity . |
| 19 | These results support our previous finding that the proliferative compartment of background crypts is confined to the lower two thirds and does not extend to the upper parts of the crypts . |
| 20 | Blood vessels at the surface are constricted in cold conditions so that blood is confined to the deeper vessels , which has the effect of conserving blood heat . |
| 21 | In Labour 's ranks Marjorie Mowlam , the shadow citizen 's charter minister , is tipped for a higher profile job . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the fact that so much violent crime is committed by the younger generation — the modern equivalent of the sons of the primal father — certainly seems to point to a fundamental failure in socialization or , in other words , in superego-formation . |
| 23 | What the people who work in a local government planning office do is constrained by a further dominant ideology at some higher level of centrality . |
| 24 | This contrasts with the situation for a viscous magma such as rhyolite in which gas expansion is constrained in the lower levels of the magma column . |
| 25 | If the inherent friction torque of the system can be neglected the equation for the rotor position relative to equilibrium ( 4.3 ) is modified by the damper torque : So the single step response of a system with a VCID is third-order , compared to the second-order Eqn . |
| 26 | But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account . |
| 27 | Above all , and most curiously of all , it is to come to a deeper knowledge of the inexplicable mercy of God , and of that fierce love that simply will not let his world go . |
| 28 | It is usually more difficult to deal more effectively with a complaint if it is reported at a later date . |
| 29 | A MSS instrument like the one carried by Landsats 1–3 and described earlier is carried by the newer Landsats ; in addition , they have a more modern scanner called the Thematic Mapper or TM . |
| 30 | The NCVO is pressing for a simpler SORP and for the timetable for compliance to be extended to mid 1994 to allow charities more time to prepare . |