Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Where the relevant movement does not span the change in reference date of January 1987 , the indexation factor is calculated in the usual way using : where RD equals the retail price index for the month on which the disposal occurs ; and RI equals the retail price index for March 1982 or the month on which expenditure was incurred , whichever is the later .
32 Ann Ab Return ; annual abnormal return ( per cent ) , this is calculated in the same way as the last measurement , the only difference being the time period under consideration .
33 During look-up , the number of letters in a word of script is calculated by the x difference of the word divided by the mean letter width figure .
34 An estimated enrolment figure is calculated by the addition to the UF figure of the U- figure weighted according to previous experience .
35 The cost or benefit is calculated by the volume of net imports , or exports , times the difference between EC prices and world prices .
36 The ISE 's Special Committee on Market Development recommended in July 1990 that the Alpha , Beta and Gamma classifications on SEAQ should be replaced with a new measure called Normal Market Size ( NMS ) which is calculated by the stock 's liquidity and trading volume .
37 With deep-taped headings , the depth is calculated from the appropriate row of pockets to the top of the tape .
38 The net income from all other sources is calculated from the information in the first interview data set .
39 The slope is found from and the intercept from Once a and b are known then the value of y corresponding to every integer value x lying between xmin and xmax is calculated from the equation of the line and a dot is printed at the point x , y .
40 The value of M n is calculated from the intercept using equation ( 9.16 ) .
41 Results are plotted as against c as described and M n is calculated from the intercept .
42 From published tables can be related to , and M w is calculated from the 90° scattering then corrected by multiplication with .
43 It is calculated from the ratio of amplitudes of any two successive oscillations using the relation
44 In this case the theoretical yield is calculated from the amount of reactant which is not used in excess .
45 To correct for the displacement of the longitudinal image of the gall bladder from the central axis , a correction factor is calculated from the longitudinal and transversal scans of the gall bladder .
46 The other is to imply , by crediting before the deduction of dividends an amount equal to the goodwill component , that profit for the period is calculated after the goodwill release .
47 A discharge from the urethra can sometimes be demonstrated during the medical examination , but , since the urethral opening in the female is hidden between the folds of the labia , such a discharge will not be apparent to the woman herself ; even if she examines herself , the natural moistness of this part of the body will tend to mask any contribution from the urethra .
48 Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender .
49 The belt here is hidden under the over fall , and a further garment , a veil , is worn over head and shoulders .
50 It is as if in looking at something , the poet discerns an eternal substance that is hidden behind the manifest sense impressions .
51 is no doubt peculiar ; but , at the same time it is hidden from the external observer by the event horizon .
52 Eventually they reach the shallow stretches where their parents spawned and they lie there resting , their heads pointing upstream , flank to flank and so thick that the pale sand of the river bed is hidden by the black of their backs .
53 But the bottom of all the surrounding buildings is hidden by the high brick wall round the garden , and the top of them by the beige silk shades which are half-lowered over the windows .
54 He manages to penetrate the fastness of the dark lord disguised in a wolfskin , while she is hidden in the garment of a bat ; but it is her own enchantments , her beauty and her songs , which ultimately defeat the evil one .
55 We thought they must be making sure we had no hidden messages and Brian used to mock them , saying , ‘ The Kalashnikov is hidden in the bathroom . ’
56 Much is hidden in the mists of the early Triassic , which is probably the least-known episode in the long history of Phanerozoic time .
57 The valley is drained by the Clough River ( unusually so named , this being the only example I can think of where the word ‘ River ’ follows the name instead of preceding it ) .
58 However , there is a net outflow of as much as 10 per cent and it is this ‘ lost ’ fluid which is drained by the lymphatics and returned to the circulation .
59 If it is partitioned in the form unc where Y is of order ( n × p ) and unc square , of order p , ( 2 ) gives unc and only the first of these equations concerns us .
60 This is the same reader who , having decided that the ‘ Envoi ’ is ‘ literary , in a limiting sense ’ , is provoked by the word ‘ magic ’ in the middle stanza into deciding that ‘ the term ‘ literary ’ becomes a good deal more limiting , for the term ‘ aesthetic ’ rises to our lips , and so , perhaps , does ‘ American ’ ' And there we have it !
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