Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 It is paralleled but surely not accounted for by the Greek practice of naked athletics ; but , whatever its origin , from now on it is a basic convention of art in Greece that males ( not females ) may be shown naked in any context .
2 It is accepted and then promptly hidden
3 Because the nation is seen as only partially liberated , and particularly by the membership of the largest party Fianna Fáil , the animus of the national-popular consciousness is focused on this issue , to the detriment of class-based politics .
4 The grist is weighed and then carefully ground in the Guinness mills .
5 Since communication is , first and foremost , a collaborative undertaking , a task where such behaviour is encouraged or even naturally elicited would represent the ideal at which to aim .
6 In the work of the next generation or two one often feels that this balance is lost or only precariously preserved .
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