Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new nations of America will never take root in its soil until they confront what is hidden by their myths and make reparation to the survivors of the holocaust that began five centuries ago . |
| 2 | For our emotions , too , can be at sea unless the authority of God 's word is hidden within our hearts . |
| 3 | My diesel shortly is a terrible smoker , I have only had this vehicle for three months ( 1985 vintage ) but have covered about 3000 miles and tried all of the adjustments to reduce its habit , The clock reads 30,000 miles and the distributor pump is adjusted to its maximum in an attempt to reduce the smoke , but I can not stop it . |
| 4 | The position of lawyers is explained by what Spaniards call the ‘ lack of preparation ’ of other classes and the predominance of law as a general course of study in the universities . |
| 5 | Some of the ambivalence shown by recipient countries towards aid is explained by its utility as a means of freeing local resources to finance projects which otherwise might get squeezed out , but which might have important political attractions . |
| 6 | Similarly , in Miller 's second example , the shift by particular cutlery businesses from carbon to stainless steel is explained by its tendency to make their enterprises more competitive . |
| 7 | He claims , therefore , that one of this century 's most important innovations in business organization is explained by his approach . |
| 8 | Having had the pleasure of meeting Willy De Roos several years ago he made a great impression on me and although little is publicised about his achievements , it is a shame that they are not better known . |
| 9 | Its mellow character is compounded of its age , its comfortable lack of pretension and the various roles it has to play as farm , design studio and home . ’ |
| 10 | Fear of unemployment is probably doing more than anything to hold back consumers from increasing their spending , and that is compounded by their desire to pay down debt after getting their fingers burned in the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s . |
| 11 | In such a situation the head office 's necessary lack of insight into the dynamics of the individual businesses is compounded by its over-reliance on the major formally rational means of control over local management and assessment of business prospects — that is , dependence upon financial calculations and accounting techniques premised on the divisional form . |
| 12 | And the weakness of this claim is compounded by his examples , which are far more individualist than the claim they are intended to illustrate . |
| 13 | ‘ The hand of the corpse is hacked off ; the name of the person whom the witch or warlock wishes to hurt is placed between its fingers and then it 's buried at the foot of a gibbet on the first stroke of midnight . ’ |
| 14 | At another party , in the South of France , a reefer is placed between his lips by a girl whose trousers fall down . |
| 15 | Your wrists are tied to your ankles , a metal bar is passed under your knees , you are lifted up , hanging from this bar , a wet floor cloth is placed over your face so that you can not breathe , and your head and the soles of your feet and beaten with a leather belt . |
| 16 | This dries out downwards , just as a wet towel dries out if it is placed with its top in a current of warm air . |
| 17 | A robin will attack a bundle of red feathers , a socialist politician will verbally attack a right-wing conservative , a spider will attempt to tie up a vibrating tuning fork if the tip is placed upon its web . |
| 18 | ‘ I say that because the true liberation of women will never come about until proper respect and value is placed upon their role as nurturers . ’ |
| 19 | It is best if lead training is started quite young so that , as an older puppy , it will freely accept a check chain when it is placed around its neck . |
| 20 | When the autoset cam driver is placed in its holder at the left end of the ribber bed , the autoset lever will be reversed every time the carriages go into the colour changer . |
| 21 | When Roland Barthes writes of Garbo 's face , a paradox is placed in its image , since the very essence of Garbo 's face ( that this face is Garbo 's and no other ) is posed in its absolute mask-like quality , by the face in its impersonality , in its very indifference . |
| 22 | It is placed in your child 's seat and if he moves off it , the pressure-sensitive cushion sounds the alarm . |
| 23 | When food is placed in your mouth , you can not choose not to salivate . |
| 24 | As part of the installation routine , a device command is placed in your CONFIG.SYS , and other system configuration files are altered — if , for instance , you are running Windows 3.1 , then it 's possible that the virtual memory utility contained therein uses 32 bit disk access to write to and read from your permanent swap file . |
| 25 | The mayor is placed in his stall by the dean with these words , as set out in the order of service : |
| 26 | What matters is not its conformity to rules , but the fact that it communicates and is recognized by its receivers as coherent . |
| 27 | A strategy 's niceness is recognized by its behaviour , not by its motives ( for it has none ) nor by the personality of its author ( who has faded into the background by the time the program is running in the computer ) . |
| 28 | What is emphasized in their case is something very different : the support which their political constitution and generally speaking their customs and habits gave them in their drive towards world-rule . |
| 29 | To get an idea of some of the many different features that can be produced , consider what happens to a single , large flow as it is traced from its source to its tip . |
| 30 | still has all the original documentation for the car and believes the 51,000 miles on the speedo to be true , but he is fascinated by its history and would like to find our more . |