Example sentences of "and [is] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The HSE 's propensity ( or more realistically reluctance ) to prosecute , except as a last resort or where there is no alternative , is well-known and is touched on by Phil James in ‘ Reforming British Health and Safety Law : a framework for discussion ’ ( 1992 ) 21 Industrial Law Journal 83–105 , together with the related area of penalties . |
| 2 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 3 | Sometimes the ferret is even in the process of killing the rabbit , is hanging on by its teeth and is dragged out with the rabbit . |
| 4 | In some places metal sinks and is covered over so quickly that even Victorian losses can be out of range ; at the other end of the scale I found a 14th century key in a wood , that came up from a depth of only 2 inches . |
| 5 | He 's twice suffered strokes and is paralysed down one side of his body . |
| 6 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 7 | Manager Malcolm Crosby wants to accept a £750,000 bid from Premier League Southampton — but his chairman Bob Murray vetoed the move and is holding out for £1 million . |
| 8 | radiation has a range of about a hundred metres in air and is stopped by about five centimetres of lead or concrete . |
| 9 | The HST rake includes two catering vehicles ( TRSB and TRUK ) and is made up to nine cars by the addition of a Trailer Second . |
| 10 | Porosity is found mainly in oolitic grainstones and is made up of both primary intergranular and leached intragranular voids ( Fig. 16a ) . |
| 11 | This porosity probably formed in response to the same early leaching process that affected the lagoonal mudstones and boundstones , and is made up almost entirely of intragranular voids . |
| 12 | The Library Instruction Round Table ( LIRT ) is a unit of the American Library Association and is made up of academic librarians , school librarians , library school personnel , public librarians and special librarians . |
| 13 | It is long ( perhaps 50 to 100 bits ) , and is made up of a series of short encoded fields specifying gates to be opened and control signals to be transmitted . |
| 14 | The following Aria from Dallapiccola 's opera Il prigioniero has equal eight-beat phrase-lengths throughout ( indicated by dotted slurs ) and is made up of three rhythmic elements : repeated crotchets , occasional pairs of quavers , and the dotted rhythm , which occurs only twice : This thematic material ( which recurs frequently in the opera ) comprises a series which begins on C and covers the first five full bars . |
| 15 | I have expressed the view held by the whole of the committee , which represents countries with Governments of various political colours and is made up of members belonging to various political parties . |
| 16 | The Quintet , formed in 1990 , plays the music of a range of composers including Thelonius Monk , Dizzy Gillespie and Kurt Weill , and is made up of : Linley Hamilton ( trumpet/flugelhorn ) , Nick Scott ( bass ) , Brian Rice ( drums ) and Foggy Little ( guitar ) . |
| 17 | That no similar slogan has come from the car workers is important , and is tied up with the fact that ‘ the car plants for the car workers ’ makes no sense to the lads who work on the line . |
| 18 | The last example lies in a difficult area and is tied up with questions relating to be the law of confidence and restraint of trade . |
| 19 | Anyway I 've spoken to and is tied up until February which is fine because |
| 20 | Where Falstaff has spent his life deceiving others , here he deceives himself , and is thrust out of this medium so far above his resources , social or moral : ‘ I know thee not , old man , fall to thy prayers ’ . |
| 21 | But now he looks to have got the bit between his teeth and is buckling down to some series driving — and finally showing what enormous talent he has . |
| 22 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 23 | Each issue of CIRCLS usually concentrates on one main topic , with items of news included as relevant , and is sent out with regular NLSLS mailings to libraries throughout Scotland . |
| 24 | By the time I realise this , she 's doffed hat and denims , and is swimming out to us . |
| 25 | The piece of membrane where all of this action takes place breaks off and is swallowed up by the cell . |
| 26 | The institute is building a pilot coal pipeline at the Kuzbas coal fields , and is throwing out ideas such as container transport by pipeline for the future . |
| 27 | Below the cheek the head tapers down and is rounded off for the lower jaw ; the mouth finishes up about 2¼in wide . |
| 28 | This tale of parallel realities claims to be based on quantum theory , and is dressed up with suitable jargon . |
| 29 | Jon Marchant , Granada 's sponsorship controller , was a principal negotiator on the PowerGen deal and is drawing up ITV 's plan to put next year 's World Cup sponsorship out to tender . |
| 30 | This machine has a baby AT motherboard using an UMC chipset and the AMI BIOS , and is spurred along by a 128 Kb cache . |