Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , there are deeper connections between care-giving and the social construction of masculine and feminine identities , as Ungerson ( 1983 ) and Graham have explored : ‘ Caring ’ becomes the category through which one sex is differentiated from the other … it becomes the defining characteristic of [ women 's ] self-identity ’ ( Graham , 1983 , p. 18 ) . |
| 2 | Further , in the world religions the sacred is differentiated from the social ; that is , that primitive religions are ‘ immanentist ’ , as Talcott Parsons underscored , while world religions are ‘ transcendentalist ’ . |
| 3 | Note that at the back of the head an allowance of approx. ½in has been left , and this is bevelled with a smoothing plane so that when viewed from above the head will lie at an angle to the neck . |
| 4 | In many statements of this sort racism is likened to a contagious disease , which people catch off each other , or a cancer in the body politic , something which can only be stopped by either eliminating its carriers , or protecting others , especially children , from contact with its ‘ breeding grounds ’ . |
| 5 | One such sceptic , a certain Montgomery , is likened to a prickly housemaid . |
| 6 | It 's no great surprise that a lecture on Othello is mooted in the Possessed notebooks , and that ‘ O , Iago , the pity of it ’ gets quoted in Russian . |
| 7 | Compensation is calculated to a complex formula which includes a basic award related to gross earnings and length of service and a compensatory award which seeks to meet the employee 's actual and future losses arising as a consequence of the dismissal . |
| 8 | The normal corporate tax rate is 31% and personal tax is calculated on a sliding scale , reaching a maximum of 30% for a taxable income of S$800,000 a year . |
| 9 | Spokesman Mike Newman said : ‘ The rent increases reflect the increased commercial opportunities open to tenants and is calculated on a fair open-market basis . |
| 10 | Unemployment Benefit is calculated on a daily basis , so that each day on which an Unemployment Benefit recipient works is a day for which he is not entitled to claim any benefit . |
| 11 | Supplementary Benefit is calculated on a weekly basis and is reduced by the equivalent of any earnings in the week that are in excess of £4 . |
| 12 | Interest is calculated on the daily cleared balance and paid direct to your account . |
| 13 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 14 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 15 | It is calculated at the following rates : |
| 16 | For Higher Rate Taxpayers , when the Bond matures or is surrendered the profit for tax purposes is calculated as the final proceeds less the original investment . |
| 17 | It is calculated in a similar way to ordinary pinch pleats in that the total measurement of unpleated fabric , i.e. , scallops and spaces , must equal the pole length . |
| 18 | The yield to put is calculated in a similar manner as the yield to call . |
| 19 | The portfolio beta is calculated in a similar fashion : . |
| 20 | The systematic or market or non-diversifiable risk of the portfolio is calculated in a similar way to that of an individual security ( see Eq.5.16 ) ) : variance due to the market ( 5.21 ) The unsystematic or non-market or diversifiable risk is calculated as follows : non-market variance . |
| 21 | Where the relevant movement does not span the change in reference date of January 1987 , the indexation factor is calculated in the usual way using : where RD equals the retail price index for the month on which the disposal occurs ; and RI equals the retail price index for March 1982 or the month on which expenditure was incurred , whichever is the later . |
| 22 | With deep-taped headings , the depth is calculated from the appropriate row of pockets to the top of the tape . |
| 23 | To correct for the displacement of the longitudinal image of the gall bladder from the central axis , a correction factor is calculated from the longitudinal and transversal scans of the gall bladder . |
| 24 | Firstly , Dustin is hidden under a folding bed which he is repairing in readiness for his first sexual experience , and then he is off-camera , talking to his parents , in the one comic-satiric scene that Woody Allen might not have disowned . |
| 25 | The belt here is hidden under the over fall , and a further garment , a veil , is worn over head and shoulders . |
| 26 | It is as if in looking at something , the poet discerns an eternal substance that is hidden behind the manifest sense impressions . |
| 27 | is no doubt peculiar ; but , at the same time it is hidden from the external observer by the event horizon . |
| 28 | But the bottom of all the surrounding buildings is hidden by the high brick wall round the garden , and the top of them by the beige silk shades which are half-lowered over the windows . |
| 29 | Here the oral pore although quite superficial is hidden by an opercular papillae , the distalmost in the oral series . |
| 30 | The computing power is hidden in a simple , compact box . |