Example sentences of "[prep] [is] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the one I was after is just called Cher |
| 2 | One of the joys of the Saga catalogue has been the reappearance of the earliest song recitals of Dame Janet Baker ( as treasurable as the recorded presence of the late Kathleen Ferrier on Decca ) , whilst the vocal art of is generously represented on the major labels . |
| 3 | What proportion of is now made in house ? |
| 4 | In other words , the type of critical and political self-analysis which New Historicists claim to be aware of is insufficiently foregrounded when reading a Renaissance text . |
| 5 | The tenement building we moved from is now gone ( as is the one we moved to ) , replaced by a row of council blocks of impressive ugliness , vintage early sixties . |
| 6 | and Jespersen feel that where to is clearly felt to have meaning it can be connected with the preposition to in the spatial sense of movement towards a point . |
| 7 | To is consequently used in the infinitive of reaction to evoke the support of the infinitive as characterized by a disposition arising prior to the time of realization of what the infinitive denotes . |
| 8 | In this activity the teacher will want , among other things to : ( a ) set the scene ( b ) capture attention and focus interest in the topic ( c ) check that the previous work this section depends on is adequately remembered or understood ( d ) cater for the levels of activity of the pupils . |
| 9 | What you get on death row for is primarily determined by how good or bad your defence lawyers is . ’ |
| 10 | The man police are looking for is well built , about 5ft 9in or 10in , and was wearing a dark blouson jacket . |
| 11 | Again , the theory of this is straightforward ; it is based on standard probability theory , such as is widely used in other disciplines , notably in the biological sciences , where the sampling of a population is an accepted way of establishing the variety of species in a given area . |
| 12 | The loaf was very large , flat , brown-crusted , open-textured , a pain de ménage , the real household French bread such as is rarely produced nowadays in restaurants and inns . |
| 13 | A clause , such as is commonly found in standard terms , providing that the whole of the parties ' obligations are defined by the written agreement may also be caught by s3(2) ( b ) if , in fact , the contract is partly written and partly oral as a result of oral undertakings given alongside the written contract . |
| 14 | Optical scanning devices have become increasingly used for data capture either via some sort of bar coding system such as is commonly found at library issue desks , or by means of equipment able to read pencil markings at specified positions on a sheet of paper ( ‘ mark sensing ’ ) . |
| 15 | The lawyers had told her vaguely that a woman from the village came in to clean — but she had quite expected to find the furniture shrouded in dust-sheets , and a general air of cheerlessness such as is usually associated with empty houses . |
| 16 | That is , attempting to provide an account of what a person is talking about is always built on an assumption that we know why that person says what he says . |
| 17 | Yet our interpretation of what a speaker is talking about is inevitably based on how he structures what he is saying . |