Example sentences of "[vb -s] [coord] is [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this can expand no further , it splits and is rolled off , like a nylon stocking from a leg . |
| 2 | The salt crystallises and is carted away for use in soda-ash plants and glass-making . |
| 3 | Violence is endemic and Thomson fashions a stylish off-beat thriller which occasionally meanders but is shot through with genuine menace . |
| 4 | [ PAMELA enters and is shown off to the visiting aristocrats . ] |
| 5 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |
| 6 | The other end of the airline will be attached to an airpump , which in an ideal world , will eventually be positioned above the tank 's water level to prevent syphoning back if the pump fails or is switched off . |
| 7 | If becoming a person can only arise through communion with God , then in the same way the marriage of two persons arises and is sustained only in God . |