Example sentences of "[adv] is [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days much is known about the socio-economic composition of the population thanks largely to the national census . |
| 2 | A hint that the fishery may have been active as early as 4200B.C. is offered by the serpent-like ornament of mother-of-pearl recovered from level V C at the site of Yahya in south Iran . |
| 3 | ( Searle , 1980 , 1981 , and 1984 , Lect. 2 ) That such a thing could instantiate such a programme , as already remarked , necessarily is allowed by the proponents of causalism and functionalism. ( v ) To add something unfamiliar , functionalism will need to explain how it avoids the absurd conclusion that consciousness is , so to speak , not merely independent of biology , but entirely independent of all instantiations of programmes and the like , which is to say entirely independent of persons , computers , and all other spatio-temporal things . |
| 4 | The answer provided below is based upon the assumptions set out in the commentary on question 1 above and provides one possible answer . |
| 5 | Answer guide : Note : The answer provided below is based upon the assumptions set out in the commentary on question ( a ) above and provides one possible answer . |
| 6 | Once the Proving picture is obtained then enough is known about the remedy to start using it in practice . |
| 7 | Only general conclusions can be drawn at present because not enough is known about the parameters involved in this model ; whether the Universe will expand forever or whether it will finally contract is not yet clear . |
| 8 | Although warming has been detected over the last few decades , scientists claim that not enough is known about the natural temperature variations of the region to be able to come to any conclusions . |
| 9 | The survey , carried out by Dr Helen McEwan and Dr Mary Campbell-Brown of Glasgow Royal Infirmary , reported that many women fear not enough is known about the long-term consequences . |
| 10 | The decision to proceed alone is based on the success of the prototype 's flight test programme and strong customer interest , says Pilatus , which holds paid options on the first 27 aircraft and is now accepting only firm orders for the $1.8 million PC-12 , with performance and delivery schedule guarantees . |
| 11 | THE sequel to Home Alone is set for the record books after pulling in £20 million in its first weekend . |
| 12 | Tit for Tat , of course , has played COOPERATE on this move , and so is landed with the Sucker 's payoff of 0 points . |
| 13 | ‘ In the passage at p. 332 Lord Roskill , as it seems to me , impliedly envisages that mere label switching could be an appropriation and that this is so is confirmed by the answer to the certified question which specifically uses the words ‘ either by that act alone . ’ |
| 14 | — Australia post claims that the delay is not of its making , ’ says reader Carr , ‘ and hints darkly that every package from Singapore raises suspicions in Customs Dept , as a possible vehicle for drug-smuggling , so is shoved into the ‘ hold for inspection ’ bay . ’ |
| 15 | Since there is only one cash book for the organization , cash does not pass from fund to fund and so is excluded from the journal entry . |
| 16 | In the years when this inexplicable phenomenon occurs — and it usually happens around Christmas , and so is known by the local fishermen as El Niño — the plankton suddenly vanish , the fish die and the birds fly away or are left to starve and rot . |
| 17 | The first is where the whole of the programme is provided by and taught at a major centre , as in the case of Bristol Polytechnic ; the second is where the first year is provided extra-murally at a number of associated centres , while the second year only is provided at the main centre , as the case of Portsmouth Polytechnic ; and the third is where both the first and second years are provided at the main and associate centres as at Plymouth Polytechnic and Cornwall Technical College , Camborne . |
| 18 | The living room inside is lit by the remains of a log fire , collapsing now into ashes . |
| 19 | ‘ As an actor , though you sometimes get a feeling you have done something well , you have to wait to hear — from an audience 's silence — whether you have held them in the palm of your hand ; you are constantly measuring whether the feeling you have inside is endorsed by the people outside . |
| 20 | TOO MUCH , too soon is expected of the branch of computer science known as artificial intelligence ( AI ) . |
| 21 | The graduate seminar normally is chaired by the head of department and the Halford Mackinder Professor . |
| 22 | The number of births for males and females separately is added to the population of age-group 1 ( 0–9 years in the example above ) . |
| 23 | The sexual woman thus is put at the bottom of a hierarchy of clerical over lay , male over female , celibate over sexual . |
| 24 | ( This assumes the behaviourist position that what is experienced subjectively as thought and emotion is identical with the behaviour , incipient as neural process as well as overt as bodily movement , which objectively is perceived by the senses . ) |
| 25 | It will depend upon which of the three models outlined above is adopted by the courts in relation to that power . |
| 26 | The author has adapted the tube method to the case of viscoelastic materials showing that the relation above is replaced by the integral equation or , for tubes of appreciable wall thickness , where the radii are respectively , the equation The derivation is straightforward , following from the use of the Boltzmann superposition principle in the form where and e are the deviatoric and dilatational parts of the strain tensor eij ( see Chap . |
| 27 | The large gap between the bassoons and the next woodwind part above is filled by the brass . |
| 28 | The financial information presented above is based on the Group 's audited consolidated accounts for LASMO alone , restated for the changes in accounting policy adopted in 1991 . |
| 29 | Firstly , the circuit above is used as the prime explanatory device . |
| 30 | Adjudication is not necessary : It is certified that this instrument falls within category H in the Schedule to The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987. ( ii ) Conveyance or transfer by the husband to the wife , by agreement ( ie not pursuant to court order ) — no monetary consideration Provided this meets the requirements of the Finance Act 1985 , s83(1) ( c ) ( see above ) and provided the certificate in ( i ) above is contained in the instrument , no stamp duty is payable . |