Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occupational pathology of the eighteenth century is strikingly revealed in a litany which gives us grinder 's asthma , grinder 's rot , mason 's disease , miner 's phthisis , stone worker 's lung and potter 's rot , among others , for dust-caused lung diseases , as well as occupational bursitis in such varying forms as bricklayer 's elbow , weaver 's bottom , housemaid 's knee , hod carrier 's shoulder and tailor 's ankle . |
| 2 | What is most wanted in a woman is gentleness ; formed to obey a creature so imperfect as man , a creature often vicious and always faulty , she should early learn to submit to injustice and to suffer the wrongs inflicted on her by her husband without complaint . |
| 3 | The linked trends in the quality Sundays towards physical bulk and internal diversity is most developed in a market leader like The Sunday Times which seeks to ‘ cover ’ everything ( and every angle ) through a ‘ completist ’ strategy designed to overwhelm both the competition and the reader . |
| 4 | Some doctors may even hasten death with the pain-killing drugs they administer at this time , but their ‘ intent to kill ’ or otherwise , is rarely tested in a court . |
| 5 | Also , even when modern composers do write melody , it is rarely presented in a straightforward way which can be regarded as a model . |
| 6 | An OTC dealer loyally argued against him with a vigour that is rarely seen in a university environment . |
| 7 | The potential of a possible-world approach to fiction is successfully demonstrated in a typology of genres based on the nature of the accessibility relations between the actual world and the worlds functioning as actual in the universes projected by different types of texts ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 8 | The beamed lounge with its log fire is elegantly furnished in a country-house style . |
| 9 | Sometimes it is all held in a single incident . |
| 10 | This social zest is colourfully displayed in a number of independent Festivals which take place annually throughout the region . |
| 11 | Their service , as well as that of government officers in the much bigger country of India , is rightly commemorated in a memorial tablet in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey . |
| 12 | Salvation may begin with the individual , he argued , but is only fulfilled in a life of shared brotherhood . |
| 13 | The genes producing these peptides are quite distinct but it is not clear whether both peptides are produced in all L cells , as dual localisation is only seen in a proportion of them . |
| 14 | ( Ends sufficient in themselves , it will be remembered , include for us anything chosen however briefly for its own sake , even if it is only lazing in a deckchair in the sun . ) |
| 15 | ( 6.5 ) unc provided x is free in no unc ( 6.6 ) unc provided x is free in no unc Note that it is possible to deal with cases where x is only declared in a few of the |
| 16 | Due to the pilot nature of the scheme it is only operating in a few selected areas initially , which is why your parish has not been contacted . |
| 17 | If the word " real " in the sense of " actual " or " actually existent " has any discernible function at all , then it is only to indicate in a roundabout way that a certain proposition , or propositions , are actally true ; and " true " , as we have just seen , is itself eliminable as a propositional predicate . |
| 18 | The plain infinitive ( without to ) is only used in a verbal , never in a nominal function . |
| 19 | Historical background is only compressed in a monograph ; biographical material may be more extensive in other sources ; the painter 's contemporaries will not receive much attention , and may be slighted . |
| 20 | The legal position in relation to the ag arrangement is uncertain since it is not expressed to provide it for in the will of Mrs who is , who is the very kindly elderly neighbour who is the landlord , but is only contained in a letter of Mrs from whom I have not heard in evidence . |
| 21 | The message is apparently contained in a 220-page apostolic exhortation to the clergy , most of which is uncontentious : priests must be ascetic and chaste as well as celibate , taking a keen and benevolent interest in the poor and in sinners , who are the poor in spirit . |
| 22 | In his study of the development of literate practices in medieval England , From Memory to Written Record 1066–1307 ( 1979 ) , Michael Clanchy has suggested that the problem is better formulated in a different way . |
| 23 | The familiar is suddenly seen in a new way ; the student 's core discipline is illuminated under a different cognitive perspective . |
| 24 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 25 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 26 | Manucci 's account of Mughal India is as full of gossip as Bernier 's , but the precarious manner in which he chose to live his life meant that his book has rather more action in it : rather than fussing about the relative merits of Parisian and Mughal architecture , he fights as an artilleryman in the Mughal civil war , has his caravan ambushed by bandits , battles with a pressgang and is finally besieged in a fort on an island in the Indus . |
| 27 | A psychopathic killer is at work , and passions run high until the murderer is finally unmasked in a dramatic pay-off . |
| 28 | It is generally done in a vertical packed bed reactor , in which water is passed down the column , with air passing up the column . |
| 29 | Bourne , creator of the original Unix Bourne shell command interpreter , believes that the fact that development of Unix operating systems is generally done in a handcrafted manner is not a function of the inherent diversity of Unix itself , but is a long-term software engineering problem . |
| 30 | The geometric assembly of components to produce an identifiable unit , such as a gearbox , is thus recorded in a hierarchical file having a structure similar to a bill-of-materials listing ( see Figure 2.25 ) . |