Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The perception of shape and pattern in apparently disorderly ( but dynamic and mobile ) things is usually mentioned with reference to visual perception , and it is commented on in the sciences and the arts alike : it is prominent , for example , in the notebooks of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins ( J. Milroy , 1977 ) , in his careful descriptions of cloud formations , waterfalls and other dynamic phenomena , and much of the poet 's imagery depends on a kind of ‘ observer 's paradox ’ ( rather different from the familiar Labov version ) , through which a dynamic phenomenon can nonetheless appear to have stable shapes and patterns within it and , conversely , a static phenomenon may appear to contain mobility . |
| 2 | The amount of energy lost to the material per unit weight is referred to as the ‘ radiation dose ’ . |
| 3 | Whoever goes to register the death is referred to as the person ‘ responsible for the disposal of the deceased ’ and is given a range of forms including the death certificate , the form that the undertaker needs to have as authorization to proceed , and another form relating to benefits available . |
| 4 | In this case the field is described in terms of a complex potential function that is referred to as the Ernst potential ( see Ernst 1968 a ) . |
| 5 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
| 6 | The first of the three lamps is referred to as the backlight , and its function is to provide a rim of light from behind the subject in order to separate it from the background . |
| 7 | The buyer of haulage services ( the customer ) is referred to as the ‘ trader ’ , and the goods carried by the carrier for the trader is the ‘ consignment ’ . |
| 8 | The technical process by which items are selected and tried out on a large group of children is referred to as the process of standardisation and the group of children is referred to as the standardisation sample . |
| 9 | The technical process by which items are selected and tried out on a large group of children is referred to as the process of standardisation and the group of children is referred to as the standardisation sample . |
| 10 | This period saw the beginning of attempts by conferences of representatives of states to draw up treaties or conventions on different aspects of the law of armed conflict , what is referred to as the jus in bello , that is , the rules of how war should be waged if it should break out . |
| 11 | The companion book which is a sequel to the Checklist is referred to as the ‘ Teacher 's File ’ and recommends appropriate commercially available materials . |
| 12 | The regularised patterns of union-management interaction , or the network of institutionalised bargained relationships , is referred to as the ‘ bargaining structure ’ . |
| 13 | Britomartis had a male companion , whether son , brother , or consort is unclear , and he is referred to as the Master of Animals . |
| 14 | The full sequence covered by our models is referred to as the circuit of gene-culture coevolution . |
| 15 | The model is referred to as the ‘ grandmother cell ’ theory because it predicts that we should have populations of cells in our brains that fire only when we see our grandmothers . |
| 16 | In some parts of the world the situation is referred to as the post-modern age or ‘ el postmo ’ , indicating the absence of new values in the wake of the bankruptcy of old ones . |
| 17 | This transfer of power is referred to as the Meiji Restoration , or the Meiji Revolution , after the reign name now adopted by the young emperor who had succeeded to the throne the year before . |
| 18 | This indexed list is referred to as the lexicon . |
| 19 | Typically in the open ocean situation sea water contains thirty fives parts per thousand of salt , usually expressed as that symbol , sometimes you 'll see it written as parts per thousand P P T and what that means is that there are thirty five grams of salt per kilogram of water and that 's usually given the symbol S and is referred to as the salinity . |
| 20 | People who know their animals well have a strong sense of what they are going to do next from what is referred to as the animals ' ‘ body language ’ . |
| 21 | When the event precipitating the change is a visual or auditory stimulus under experimental control the resulting activity is referred to as the visual or auditory evoked potential . |
| 22 | Current revolutionary activity in the sub-continent is referred to as the ‘ Second War of Independence ’ : the nineteenth-century fight to gain political emancipation by ousting the Spanish has been succeeded by the struggle to achieve economic liberation by discarding the yoke of imperialism . |
| 23 | The radioactive decay , through which a radionuclide loses half its radioactivity , is a fixed length of time for each element , and is referred to as the half-life of a substance . |
| 24 | Frequently , this strategy is referred to as the ‘ best practicable means ’ or ‘ good practice ’ strategy and is associated with the traditional British approach to air pollution control . |
| 25 | This is referred to as the crystallisation of the charge . |
| 26 | This is referred to as the principle of actualism by Douglas ( 1980 ) citing Russian geologists Gorshkov and Yakushova and , whereas it is rejected by Douglas and also by Ollier ( 1979,1981 ) , it is possible to believe that although the past development of an area may not be explicable in terms of the processes at present operating in that area , nevertheless study of present processes may collectively help to illuminate the past . |
| 27 | In continuum mechanics D/Dt is referred to as the material time derivative . |
| 28 | For a given load the maximum operating speed is referred to as the " pull-out " rate , so in this example the pull-out rate for a load of 0.2 Nm is 500 steps per second . |
| 29 | The first is referred to as the efficient markets hypothesis . |
| 30 | ( The key is referred to as the Enter key as it is used to enter a command , and sometimes as the Return key in word-processing because of its similarity with the typewriter carriage return lever . ) |