Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objects in Braque 's painting like the Still Life with Fruit Dish ( Moderna Museet , Stockholm ) , which is roughly contemporary with the Compotier , are more faceted , and the whole surface is broken up in terms of the same angular but subtly modulated planes which carry the eye back into a limited depth and then forward again on to the picture plane in a series of gentle declivities and projections . |
| 2 | Moser ( 1978 ) typically deals with the way information is broken down in interpretation from sentences and context into meaning , and one can only presume that she proposes a similar process for the reconstruction of the message in the second language . |
| 3 | The table top and the bottle provide the main compositional accents , while the remainder of the surface is broken down in secondary vertical and horizontal sections . |
| 4 | This bloke is propped up in the corner of the cab , and blood all over the place . |
| 5 | Our red-haired chanteuse is propped up in bed . |
| 6 | Jamie is propped up in a neatly made bed on which lie two discarded magazines of which he might have read the covers . |
| 7 | Next day John is tucked up in bed at his flat in Tufnell Park . |
| 8 | The second CD is given over in the main to what I think of as Mark Goodier bands ( not a breath of criticism implicit in that , by the way ) . |
| 9 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 10 | It consists of a short phrase in the slow introduction to the opening movement , which in the Septet is given out in the major before being echoed in the minor , but which appears both times in the minor in the transcription . |
| 11 | As is pointed out in a robust response from Ernst & Young , the code is full of the desired qualitative attributes of boards and directors , but it is short on objective operational criteria . |
| 12 | It is pointed out in Washington that the President made a special point of ensuring that Mr Major was the first European leader to meet him in the White House . |
| 13 | Fully one-third of the marketable federal debt is rolled over in any year ; half is rolled over every two years . |
| 14 | By the end this quartet depart the stage in a halting dance of death and Trevitt is rolled up in a carpet , leaving Bristow alone without partner or diary . |
| 15 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 16 | I believe tobacco-smoke is the most effectual , but to one not a smoker it would require to be a case of hiring another to the office of smoking away the midges — a work many would gladly undertake , for tobacco is looked on in the Highlands as a very great good , almost as essential as the whiskey . |
| 17 | The evolutionary sequence for the history of mankind which is sketched out in The German Ideology is patchy and in some respects inconsistent , but the main features emerge clearly . |
| 18 | Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful . |
| 19 | From being despised , feeling inferior , wanting to be invisible , one is lifted up in full view on a cross of one 's own devising . |
| 20 | Although composition through improvisation is the major thrust of this department 's practice , this is carried through in a manner that allows children to become skilled in the basic techniques of certain musical instruments . |
| 21 | The plating is carried on in eight vats , one each for silver , nickel and black nickel , two for brass plating , and three for copper plating . |
| 22 | The teaching is carried on in the form of folklore and tribal legends . |
| 23 | For example , Kerr ( 1968 , p. 16 ) defines the school curriculum as ‘ all the learning which is planned and guided by the school , whether it is carried on in groups or individually , inside or outside the school ’ . |
| 24 | So long as production is carried on in units of production which have a degree of real economic autonomy and ‘ employ ’ distinct groups of workers ( despite their general interdependence in terms of input/output relations ) there will exist real grounds for conflict between particular groups of workers and the ‘ social interest ’ , however democratically the latter is generated . |
| 25 | Education in art and design is carried on in many different institutions ranging from polytechnics and colleges of higher education through specialist colleges of art to colleges of further education and technical colleges . |
| 26 | For the most part , agricultural education which includes education for horticulture , forestry , poultry husbandry and dairying is carried on in specialist colleges of agriculture and horticulture , together with some general technical colleges . |
| 27 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) At least one of the merging enterprises is carried on in the United Kingdom or by or under the control of a company incorporated in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes it is , provided the shooting is carried out in a responsible manner . |