Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This is calculated daily and paid into your account every quarter . |
| 2 | The booklet is revised annually and has become widely recognised as one of the best guides available for local groups . |
| 3 | As the sea cuts into the land , the cliff collapses and the collapsed material is broken down and transported away , there results the slow development of a wavecut platform . |
| 4 | Strength and mobility of joints improves , and because the muscles need more energy , stored body fat is broken down and utilised , leading to a reduction in weight . |
| 5 | Usually the cargo is broken down and sold off , then the ship reappears with false papers reregistered under a Honduran or Panamanian flag of convenience . |
| 6 | Most procaryotes , using oxygen , depend on the simpler process of fermentation for their energy , where chemical food is broken down and burned inside the cell . |
| 7 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 8 | The autumn colours come when the green pigment chlorophyll is broken down and re-absorbed into the tree . |
| 9 | Thus undergraduate physics is always being decapitated — once an aspect grows to be important , it is lopped off and becomes an engineering subject ( electronics , semiconductor devices , fibre optics , acoustics , quantum electronics , electron microscopy , etc. , etc. , etc . ) . |
| 10 | Push the connector firmly into the boss shoulder making sure it is aligned properly and remove surplus cement |
| 11 | Faithful , reliable dog provided it is treated properly and trained with firm kindness . |
| 12 | If bacterial meningitis is diagnosed early and treated promptly , most people make a complete recovery . |
| 13 | You must be like a piece of wood in the ocean : wood always floats to the surface , even though it is rolled over and held under . ’ |
| 14 | The unpaid interest is rolled up and added to the total debt . |
| 15 | The mix forms a slurry which is rolled out and heated to remove water , then thickened into a solid strip . |
| 16 | Such measures will ensure that the child is carried successfully and born in a healthy condition . |
| 17 | If the ACT for any particular accounting period is displaced , the ACT is carried forward and treated as paid in the next period ( see below ) . |
| 18 | Assessment is by coursework ; dissertation work is carried out and supervised on the basis of individual interests . |
| 19 | I further accept that some of this foam is carried downstream and contaminated the plaintiff 's water . ’ |
| 20 | The finished case is thrown upon the floor ; the long narrow strip which is to form the frame of the drawer is laid upon the bright strip of ready-pasted paper , then bent together and joined by an overlapping bit of paper ; the edges of paper below are bent flat , the ready-cut bottom is dropped in and pressed down and before the fingers are withdrawn they fold over the upper edges of the paper inside the top . |
| 21 | Under the law of a number of member states ( though not the UK ) , transfer of central management and control from the state of registration is only possible if the company is wound up and reincorporated in another member state . |
| 22 | This is the raison d'être of the Communities ' official publication Directory of Community Legislation in Force , which is re-edited annually and lists all Community legislation in force at the date of publication along with indications of all amendments to it . |
| 23 | The way in which the term 'sand " is picked up and used without explanation is characteristic of this novel , which demands the closeness of reading more usually required of verse . |
| 24 | This note is picked up and amplified by Alexis Hunter 's donations , the wry painting ‘ Fear of the Intellectual Wife ’ and the photoseries , ‘ Approach to Fear XI — Effeminacy Productive Action ’ . |
| 25 | Now what I would like to do is come back and see you either next week or the week after . |
| 26 | I once saw a science fiction movie about time-travellers in the future ; towards the end of the film the whole story is speeded up and re-run in about two minutes . |
| 27 | Language is presented gradually and recycled frequently , so that all pupils gain essential confidence and a satisfying sense of achievement . |
| 28 | When given orally , it is absorbed rapidly and has excellent tissue penetration . |
| 29 | This is fair enough when the proprietary foliar feed is made up and used correctly . |
| 30 | Of course , I 'm well aware that this was never the point and that posing potential is at maximum only when the guitar is strapped on and slung low . |