Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems pretty strong minded , so Im pretty sure he s got definate ideas of how hed like a team to play etc . |
| 2 | Thinking about it he s got some kind of ‘ hot streak ’ when it comes to the FA Cup . |
| 3 | Jones is probably the best choice … ok so he s had disciplinary problems recently — this is no time to start making petty examples of players . |
| 4 | He s had several really good runs — stopped by injury . |
| 5 | The total Scottish Block is calculated each year by simply adopting the changes in expenditure agreed for comparable programmes in England and Wales , adjusted for the differences in population . |
| 6 | The first point to note is that since the weights are revised every January , the index for April 1985 is calculated first of all using January 1985 as the base period . |
| 7 | Nick Fitzpatrick , investment partner with the actuaries and consultants Bacon & Woodrow , said : ‘ Because of the way the discounted income stream is calculated this change will impact on the whole of the fund , reducing the notional value of assets by 6.25 per cent . ’ |
| 8 | Local Government minister Michael Portillo is n't expected to comment on Gloucestershire 's problems until he 's heard similar demands for help from twenty five other councils . |
| 9 | Tim reckons he 's heard this one before . |
| 10 | Now if C 1 and C 2 represent total capacitances in parallel with R 1 and R 2 respectively , the ratio between the output and input potential difference phasors of this circuit as a function of the pulsatance ο is readily shown to be Consequently , if C 2 is adjusted such that which means that the time constants of the two parallel R-C combinations are the same , the potential difference division avoids phase shift , is given by equation ( 8.1 ) again and , in particular , is independent of frequency ! |
| 11 | When a transfer is arranged this should be on a trial basis normally not exceeding one month . |
| 12 | According to a simple version of the adaptive expectations hypothesis , the expected rate of inflation is revised each period by adding on some proportion ( say , w ) of the observed error in the previous period , where w lies between zero and one . |
| 13 | There is — for me — no doubt that the dominant brand leadership of brands such as Hovis , Persil , Brooke Bond , Cadburys in the UK , and Jello , Tide , Hershey in the USA is compounded both of the effects of their current advertising and of that accumulated over 20 , 30 or 50 years . |
| 14 | This may be especially true where the ‘ absurdity ’ of distinguishing foreign from internal policy is well understood , and where the movement of history is assigned such importance . |
| 15 | Each word within a paragraph is assigned all its possible subject categories , and the category most frequently represented over the whole paragraph is deemed to be the subject area of the text . |
| 16 | Contextually , the notional component of the verb is assigned thematic status if it has already been mentioned . |
| 17 | Existing GIS techniques usually base the estimates on area-weighted shares , so that a new polygon created by ‘ slicing ’ an existing area in half is assigned half the population of that source unit . |
| 18 | The challenge of integrity against hypocrisy , made by Emilia at the very end of Othello , is placed first in King Lear . |
| 19 | Inside the bracket the symbol of the central atom is placed first . |
| 20 | This conspicuousness is just as well , since there are no detailed charts of this area , and on our large scale chart ( 1:906,530 ) the word Tulum is placed two or three miles north of its actual location . |
| 21 | It is best to mount the camera on a tripod so that the lens is some two inches above the spawning stone and the camera is placed such that the field of view is sufficiently large to capture both fish during spawning . |
| 22 | The second poem , ‘ After The Sabbath Prayers ’ is placed second in deference to this , directing and interpreting the symbolism of the kite . |
| 23 | Albacete is placed 14 out of 20 in the spanish league with a 1–5-2 ( w-d-l ) record ; so it looks like a hard team to beat — i guess they hope for Frank to deliver the stuff he did not get the chance to do at Leeds . |
| 24 | When a strong concentration of sodium chloride is placed near to paramecium they turn and go off in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | Much emphasis is placed these days on understanding and applying standard practice rather than simply learning it by rote . |
| 26 | The justification can imply an awareness of how the meaning of attitudinal positions depends upon the wider context of controversy , and can not just be understood in terms of the individual 's uttered attitudinal statements . |
| 27 | It is diverted hundreds of miles along aqueducts to slake the thirst of Los Angeles , Phoenix and Tucson . |
| 28 | Even if Maastricht is ratified intact , the past four months have made it seem backward-looking , or even irrelevant . |
| 29 | Oh , oh , it 's already 10 am and nobody 's posted last night 's result . |
| 30 | The outbound leg is adjusted for single drift , and is flown 1 minute <+-; > 1 second for each knot of head or tail wind component . |