Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The intensity of the group sessions is broken up with other prison activities , and relaxation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The development department is broken down into product-oriented sectors which , in turn , are divided into discipline-oriented units . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The substrate ( carbohydrate , fat , protein ) is broken down into pyruvic acid ( 3C ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 : |
| 19 | In a board reorganisation , Sir Brian is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 20 | MAURICE SAATCHI , who with his brother Charles created Saatchi & Saatchi , the world 's biggest advertising group , is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 21 | Daryl Foster is stepping down as Western Australia 's coach after 17 seasons . |
| 22 | Such looking becomes the process whereby an object of experience is formed out of indeterminate data , first into figure against ground and then into other elements of an image . |
| 23 | International : Cotton republic is hanging on by slim thread |
| 24 | Everyone who is ahead of me is hanging on like crazy to their rung of the ladder . |
| 25 | The surrounding countryside is lush and fertile and much is given over to agricultural use . |
| 26 | And so the last page or so is given over to French names : Corbière and Jammes and De Regnier ; Tailhade and Romains ; Vildrac , Spire and Arcos — poets who at the present day have few readers even among the French . |
| 27 | The foreground is given over to common land , undulating , uncultivated , with clumps of fern and whin , gorse and bramble . |
| 28 | The ground floor of the gallery is given over to Gothic and ‘ International Gothic ’ art . |
| 29 | The third section of Demant 's 1936 Christian Polity ( Faber & Faber ) is given over to anthropological essays , such as ‘ Idols : Their Place and Influence in Religious History ’ where again we meet the names of Elliot Smith , Tylor , Ellis , Frazer , McDougall , Robertson Smith , and others . |
| 30 | Here information is given out to potential squatters detailing empty and derelict homes suitable for squatting . |