Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 2 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 3 | This division is intended only to simplify the analysis and should not be taken to imply that the aggregate level of unemployment in a country can readily be divided into completely separate and distinguishable categories . |
| 4 | This stage is intended mainly to ease the initial awkwardness , the interviewer does not really want your detailed impressions of the weather or the route you took to get to the interview . |
| 5 | It is a matter of construction of the contract and the surrounding circumstances as to whether the prohibition is intended merely to place the vendor in breach of contract and exposed to a claim for damages or whether the prohibition is intended to render the assignment ineffective and make it clear that the contract is personal . |
| 6 | Here the button is pressed once to select an ‘ icon ’ from the screen menu and twice to open a file for that particular piece of software . |
| 7 | Likewise we suspect , from the ignorance he displays in scene one of Chetwyn and his work , that his praise of Chetwyn 's university , in the next scene , is given merely to uphold the approbation maxim and thus the Politeness Principle . |
| 8 | The rear of the standing male is slotted vertically to take the folded iron blade ( now missing ) . |
| 9 | Of course it is considered better to have a boy , but the birth of a girl is celebrated with the same joy by the women in the family . |
| 10 | ‘ Because it is permitted only to charge a profit of sixty pfennigs if soda is served with whisky . ’ |
| 11 | Whatever plan of management is adopted , however , it is important that some form of biliary drainage is instituted urgently to lessen the risk of cholangitis . |
| 12 | Mr Heseltine is expected soon to release a white paper on energy policy which could set out plans for saving some of the jobs at pits BC want to close . |
| 13 | Funds are being provided by the Suffolk Water Company and the National Rivers Authority to help prevent the fen drying out because of local water extraction and the European Community is expected soon to approve a £1.9 million grant for the scheme [ see ED 71 ] . |
| 14 | ( That student 's essay , by the way , was graded C. ) But when the assessor is expected merely to grade the product he/she will keep such insights to him or herself . |
| 15 | Their use ( down to say , D ) is recommended only to complete the contour of a phrase which would otherwise lose its shape . |
| 16 | They fear that they are now looking at a successor tax which is designed simply to allow the Government to muddle through to the next election . |
| 17 | We add the commentary at the very last minute and it is designed simply to strengthen the picture-story , not to add to it . |
| 18 | The curriculum already exists and is external and objective to both teacher and pupil , and their interaction is designed simply to bring the learner to that state of knowledge at which the teacher has already arrived . |
| 19 | It is a bucket-shaped attachment that deploys when a plane lands ; it is designed solely to stop the plane flying . |
| 20 | The voice of ‘ Cassandra Castratrix ’ is adopted strategically to perform an operation of creative mut(il)ation on the text of Herodotus . |
| 21 | The list is presented mainly to alert the design team to the many dimensions that it is possible to work in . |
| 22 | It is said only to underline the specific nature of the German revolution . |
| 23 | Our linguistic habits have preserved , as if in amber , an interpretation of the world which we no longer consciously accept , which is exploited here to suggest a link between our thought patterns and those of Neanderthal man . |
| 24 | Only a lightly sketched attempt is made here to place the ‘ kinship defenders ’ and the ‘ society-as-parent protagonists ’ in the context of broader viewpoints and sets of values ; a thorough analysis could be a very lengthy exercise . |
| 25 | No attempt is made here to provide a comprehensive survey of the literature ; the intention rather is to introduce the basic experimental techniques and to summarise some of the principal findings and theoretical issues . |
| 26 | My chair with its high back and strong iron wheels is positioned correctly to catch the sun . |
| 27 | The depletion of stocks of minerals and fossil fuel is done mainly to satisfy the First World 's boundless greed for gadgetry , and to encourage the Third World to follow its degrading example . |
| 28 | Elsewhere , it was stressed that no one wished to interfere with the ‘ responsible and competent parent ’ , but where they were not so , ‘ action is needed either to reinforce the consciousness or replace the incompetency ’ . |
| 29 | All too often the change of conditions when the sale is made and the fish is taken home , is all that is needed finally to send the unfortunate creature to that great big goldfish bowl in the sky . |
| 30 | Blood is needed primarily to detect the presence of antibodies to the treponeme of syphilis , which may indicate either present or past infection . |