Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 5 games ; - ) Another ‘ famous ’ thing in football is to wait until at least xmas . |
| 2 | On board will be the British-built instrument that will attempt to answer why the Sun 's outer atmosphere — the corona — is heated to over 1 million degrees , boiling off charged particles to produce the solar wind . |
| 3 | The loss of that money is resented by at least one member of the England Committee , who told me : ‘ Our football in Sweden was the worst in my lifetime , but we should be strong enough to face up to the situation . |
| 4 | Any action by the teacher which is deemed an offence is retaliated against without question . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Each Chorus is commented on in turn . |
| 7 | This spontaneous surge of ‘ substitute fictions ’ ( 169 ) is commented upon by many of those who take to keeping computerized journals . |
| 8 | The strength of the civil service culture is commented upon by Hennessy who suggests that , after three decades of travelling up the hierarchy , senior civil servants become indistinguishable from each other : |
| 9 | The first option is referred to as a world-wide contract , and the second is known as a territory-by-territory contract . |
| 10 | The amount of energy lost to the material per unit weight is referred to as the ‘ radiation dose ’ . |
| 11 | This type of defect is referred to as a ‘ luminescence centre ’ . |
| 12 | The signal is plotted as the temperature of the sample is increased , up to 500°C typically , and the output is referred to as a glow curve ( fig. 7.10 ) . |
| 13 | The big company is referred to as ‘ the mink-lined rat-trap ’ and , after a good talking-to from Betsy , Tom spurns it in favour of old-fashioned American self-reliance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The formal proletariat is basically urban in composition and along with the dominant class and the bureaucratic-technical class , makes up ( what is referred to as ) the modern sector of Latin American economies . |
| 16 | 27 where she is referred to as as Mary ) to develop her own peculiar brand of pidgin Italian , of which she is very proud . |
| 17 | At this stage the healing area is reddish in appearance and is referred to as granulation tissue . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Once the connection is made and established it is referred to as an S-R bond . |
| 20 | Henceforth , the embryo is referred to as a fetus . |
| 21 | This condition is referred to as full surrogacy , or uterine fostering . |
| 22 | A more general equilibrium also requires the total demand for money to be equal to the total supply of money : this is referred to as equilibrium in the money market . |
| 23 | For the purpose of constitutional law , it has a more technical meaning signifying more or less what in popular language is referred to as ‘ the government ’ , which term embraces , rather vaguely , the Prime Minister , Cabinet , central government departments and all that goes with it . |
| 24 | For example , he is referred to as Father , as Person , as One who acts and who shows love , power and justice . |
| 25 | This is referred to as a form of idolatry ; it is the particularization or objectification of the Ultimate and consequently a form of demonization . |
| 26 | Hence the reason why it is referred to as Truth force , or Soul force . |
| 27 | Chastity is referred to as one of the greatest disciplines . |
| 28 | The esoteric tradition relates that all physical , moral and psychic energy patterns emitted throughout time are imprinted in this sub-strate or background of primordial ‘ pre-matter ’ , which acts as a reservoir of information and is referred to as ‘ the first stadium in the evolution of matter ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The resulting copy , being at one remove from the original , is referred to as a second generation tape , and it will be slightly lower in quality than the original . |