Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 If word recognition is completed before the context can be used to generate a prediction , then the context would not be expected to have much of an effect upon the word , and more experienced readers do appear to be less influenced by context .
32 A contract for the sale of land or an interest in land is completed when the deed is delivered and the buyer pays the price .
33 There is also a video , starring Angela Rippon , which explains the services of a KSA member offer ; this costs £10 , but the fee is refunded when the video is returned .
34 The situation is simplified if the utility function is homothetic , and that assumption is made in what follows .
35 The resulting graphical construction is simplified if the size scale is represented by equal increments , usually represented by phi , half-phi or quarter-phi divisions .
36 The traveller in Philips 's poem delights in a magical illusion , a pleasing unreality , which is mourned when the ice falls away .
37 Furthermore , Webb himself indicated that ‘ much of what is claimed as the progress of socialism might be equally well described as a merely empirical development from the principles of Canning , Peel , Bentham and Gladstone ’ .
38 The offence is committed where a person recklessly engages in conduct which places another person in danger of death or serious bodily injury .
39 The general rule is that a battery is committed where a person touches or strikes another , grabs hold of their sleeve or lapels and so on , without implied or express permission .
40 The Disciplinary Code in Schedule 1 to the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 contains an offence of ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ , which is committed where a member of a police force without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force .
41 Improper disclosure of information , which offence is committed where a member of a police force ( a ) without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force …
42 The Committee therefore proposes the enactment of a statutory provision which will clearly state that rape is committed where a woman consents to sexual intercourse as a result of threats of force , explicit or implicit , against the woman herself or any other person , ‘ but that it should not be rape if , taking a reasonable view , the threats were not capable of being carried out immediately . ’
43 No offence against section 8 of the Vehicles ( Excise ) Act 1971 is committed where the vehicle is used or kept on a private road , i.e. a road which is not repairable at public expense .
44 Where the offending message is in written form , the offence is committed where the defendant ‘ distributes or displays ’ it .
45 Here the offence is committed where the defendant inflicts actual bodily harm upon the complainant with intent to have sexual intercourse .
46 The principal offence , located at the time of field work in the Rivers ( Prevention of Pollution ) Act 1951 , s.2 , is committed if a person ‘ causes or knowingly permits to enter a stream any poisonous , noxious or polluting matter …
47 Generally the rest of this phrase means that the offence is committed if the vehicle or part of it proceeds past the traffic lights on the left or nearside of the approaching vehicle .
48 Similarly , the case of displays or visible representations , the offence is committed if the material is visible to the public generally , but not , apparently , if it can he seen only by persons inside another dwelling .
49 The reformulated law makes it plain that an offence is committed if the defendant conducts himself in a way that causes his victim to anticipate that the defendant is about to use unlawful violence .
50 However , when the same function is considered as a potential , it then leads to the Kerr solution .
51 Thus , if the clause is reasonable it will stand for all the classes of liability under the UCTA for which exclusion is permitted if the requirement of reasonableness is satisfied .
52 However , earlier exercise is permitted if the participant leaves the employment of the Group through death , redundancy , retirement , injury , disability , or the company or undertaking by which he is employed being transferred outside the Group ; or in the event of a takeover , reconstruction or voluntary winding-up of the Company .
53 ( A strange distinction , this , since the KEF arrangement is probably the closest yet to a true concentric — the others are misnomers and should really be termed coaxial. ) claim that their composite driver is essentially free from the dispersion discontinuities in and around the crossover region , which inevitably result when tweeter and bass/midrange driver are physically separated ( because the directivities of the two drive units do not match in the crossover region the perceived tonal balance is modified as the listener moves position ) .
54 You will know which pipe is frozen because the tap at the end of it will no longer be working .
55 In this example the half stepping excitation scheme is being used , so the Phase is excited for half of the total cycle and the torque is maximised if the phase current is turned on when d L A /d 0 is positive .
56 The Solution is equipped with an audible alarm which is emitted when the ascent speed exceeds 10 metres per minute , when the dive becomes a decompression dive and when the decompression ceiling is reached .
57 However , it is a very similar process to the one by which the pitch of the siren on a fire engine is deepened as the vehicle rushes away from the listener .
58 Further genetic progress on mastitis resistance is expected because the weighting gives to it in the Norwegian breeding programme has recently been more than doubled .
59 This is the first occasion on which a Roman horde in Britain has been correctly excavated and much new information about the burial of such treasures is expected as a result .
60 Most gas fields occur where the vitrinite reflectance at the Top Carboniferous is between 1 and 2% Rm , a few fields are located between 2 and 3% Rm and only one small field ( Uchte ) is located where the vitrinite reflectance is 4.5% Rm .
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