Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Society 's motto is to serve law and justice ( ‘ Leges Juraque Servamus ’ ) and the mainstream work of many of its committees is to cope with literally hundreds of Government proposals for changes in the law . |
| 2 | British Gas South Western training is accredited by both the Institute of Supervisory Management and the Business and Technology Education Council to deliver the following programmes : |
| 3 | Often the key to success is maintaining at least a pair of species , and sometimes even a small group with one male and a few females is desirable . |
| 4 | My tip is to go for really good quality ski pants in black with braces and team that with a jacket that suits your style . |
| 5 | Our job is to go over there and come back with a result which keeps everything alive for us in the second leg at Parkhead . ’ |
| 6 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 7 | The whole idea of this is to go in there with an ope with a with a a a clean canvas and see what we 're |
| 8 | This is calculated on all ( or nearly all ) your income , after deduction of your personal allowance ; and in the case of a married man , the married couple 's allowance . |
| 9 | It is calculated in almost exactly the same way . |
| 10 | Here the amount of information coded is calculated by simply summing the number of times each category from the coding system was used . |
| 11 | We agree with MacGowan and Reeves that the half life may be inaccurate if it is calculated from only two values ; but perhaps that is why they have never seen a patient with normal renal function in whom the half life is as long as 7.6 hours , since in clinical practice two measurements are all one has to go on . |
| 12 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 13 | The difference is explained by more efficient ways of making goods , to a large extent brought about by computers and electronics techniques themselves . |
| 14 | The second band , with its very long progression of vibrational peaks , is assigned to both the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the π u level , while the third and fourth bands are assigned respectively to the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the level ; both levels are expected to be strongly bonding , as suggested by the lower vibration frequencies of the ions . |
| 15 | A concealed logical is assigned in exactly the same way as any other logical name , except that you specify /TRANSLATION=CONCEALED and you put an extra fullstop ( . ) |
| 16 | He stated : ‘ It is somewhat bizarre that local authorities should single out the nuclear industry with its accident-free transport record for attack when the public is placed at far greater risk by the routine traffic in fuels and chemicals which seem to be of little interest to our councillors . ’ |
| 17 | This is placed on chemically treated plastic strips which react with cancer cells , turning a fluorescent green . |
| 18 | … the staff of the College have realized that the future and reputation of the institution were in their hands and they have undergone the transmutation which occurs when full academic responsibility is placed upon professionally competent individuals . |
| 19 | Basic population estimates are updated annually , but heavy reliance is placed upon very dated sources , most notably the 1981 Census , which is already nearly seven years out of date and will be eleven or twelve years old before the 1991 Census results become available . |
| 20 | As long as attention is diverted to supposedly universal standards and the differences of opinion and taste which undermine them , it seems that all value slides into the subjectivity from which factual judgements are exempt . |
| 21 | It is regarded as a matter of national importance and , as such , it is emphasized in much the same way as other elements of education . |
| 22 | A great many human societies operate with " cognatic " systems of kinship , in which common ancestry is traced through both male and female links . |
| 23 | All such variations contain the same general idea : " we " , who are true kin , share a common substance through our shared links with the same ancestral past ; but wherever descent is traced through both males and females the distinction between those who are unmarriageable because they rate as true kin and those who are marriageable because they do not so rate becomes very fuzzy . |
| 24 | The back-up handle is again heaved back and forth for undercarriage and , after quickly selecting press cold on the air-conditioning panel to combat the rising personal temperature , a curving 130- knot approach is flown with quite high power on the remaining engine . |
| 25 | It is misplaced in both the revised and the original Purcell Society edition of the score . |
| 26 | The army list itself is intended to broadly represent an Orc and Goblin army . |
| 27 | The army list itself is intended to broadly represent the Empire army . |
| 28 | It is not necessary to draw only upon Eastern Europe for examples of a system of education which is centralised at almost every level below that of research work for higher degrees . |
| 29 | The village of North Ferriby is situated on gently rising ground on the north bank of the river Humber , about seven miles west of the city of Hull . |
| 30 | The power of pop is situated in so many other places than the good song , or good intention — in the strange , the intolerable , the unattainable , the curiously sexual . |