Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linseed oil is mostly made out of the seeds of the lin linen plant . |
| 2 | If the law is to recognise the significance of the individual 's physical integrity , then it must provide for offences of this kind even if some of the conduct falling within the definition of the offence is properly kept out of the courts by prosecutorial discretion . |
| 3 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 4 | With the genre scenes , part of the secret lies again in the way natural-sounding dialogue is skilfully caught up into a formal musical structure . |
| 5 | Wage inflation may well be the consequence of excess demand in the labour market , but it is also the means by which excess demand is eventually squeezed out of the system . |
| 6 | Thus the narrow strict sense of elite , though sometimes used misleadingly as if it had been demonstrated satisfactorily , is rarely applied consistently throughout an argument in modern elite theory . |
| 7 | The idea that women are more conservative than men is manifestly inadequate to account for all the observed facts , at least in the cultures sociolinguists have studied most intensively , and it is rarely advanced nowadays as an explanation of sex differences . |
| 8 | This is expressly ruled out in the Act , but only for five years , although the Conservative Education Association recommended that the period should be ten years . |
| 9 | This requirement is expressly laid down in the United Kingdom by section 3(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 , in the following terms : |
| 10 | He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’ |
| 11 | I understand the definition of a bar is somewhere used principally for the consumption of alcoholic beverages . |
| 12 | The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries . |
| 13 | The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use . |
| 14 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 15 | The study shows that although large amounts of hydrogen chloride are released during some volcanic eruptions , this is effectively washed out in the rain that invariably accompanies an eruption . |
| 16 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 17 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
| 18 | The nature of the laterality index one chooses is intimately bound up with the sort of theoretical question one wishes to ask ( Eling , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | This is gently mixed up with the compost and the worms get to work . |
| 20 | More generally , it remains true that the severity of the Monopolies Commission 's findings mean that the board is necessarily placed somewhat on the defensive about its investment appraisals , and will find all its investment assumptions scrutinised with some suspicion . |
| 21 | Rather it is necessarily fuzzed out by an amount which is of the size of the wavelength of the light employed . |
| 22 | He 's only run twice in the last year , but he could n't have better owners . |
| 23 | Ah sure he 's only staying out for a while till he gets married and that . |
| 24 | She says that considering he 's only lived here for a short while , it 's fantastic the way people are celebrating his success . |
| 25 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 26 | It 's perhaps improved somewhat over the years . |
| 27 | The opportunity presented by RMI is nicely summed up in a paper by Black , Dearden , Mayhew and Nichol ( 1989 ) in which they say ‘ Resource management enables clinicians and managers to see directly what the cost of various patterns of care are , to consider alternatives and make decisions in a more informed way — at the level of patient , the service or service mix . |
| 28 | He of friends , and I thought well , when we 're going into this , you know , he 's obviously coming in as a colleague , because actually he was a member of the same damn union . |
| 29 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 30 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |