Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , there are deeper connections between care-giving and the social construction of masculine and feminine identities , as Ungerson ( 1983 ) and Graham have explored : ‘ Caring ’ becomes the category through which one sex is differentiated from the other … it becomes the defining characteristic of [ women 's ] self-identity ’ ( Graham , 1983 , p. 18 ) . |
| 2 | Further , in the world religions the sacred is differentiated from the social ; that is , that primitive religions are ‘ immanentist ’ , as Talcott Parsons underscored , while world religions are ‘ transcendentalist ’ . |
| 3 | It 's no great surprise that a lecture on Othello is mooted in the Possessed notebooks , and that ‘ O , Iago , the pity of it ’ gets quoted in Russian . |
| 4 | Interest is calculated on the daily cleared balance and paid direct to your account . |
| 5 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 6 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 7 | It is calculated at the following rates : |
| 8 | For Higher Rate Taxpayers , when the Bond matures or is surrendered the profit for tax purposes is calculated as the final proceeds less the original investment . |
| 9 | Where the relevant movement does not span the change in reference date of January 1987 , the indexation factor is calculated in the usual way using : where RD equals the retail price index for the month on which the disposal occurs ; and RI equals the retail price index for March 1982 or the month on which expenditure was incurred , whichever is the later . |
| 10 | With deep-taped headings , the depth is calculated from the appropriate row of pockets to the top of the tape . |
| 11 | To correct for the displacement of the longitudinal image of the gall bladder from the central axis , a correction factor is calculated from the longitudinal and transversal scans of the gall bladder . |
| 12 | The belt here is hidden under the over fall , and a further garment , a veil , is worn over head and shoulders . |
| 13 | It is as if in looking at something , the poet discerns an eternal substance that is hidden behind the manifest sense impressions . |
| 14 | is no doubt peculiar ; but , at the same time it is hidden from the external observer by the event horizon . |
| 15 | But the bottom of all the surrounding buildings is hidden by the high brick wall round the garden , and the top of them by the beige silk shades which are half-lowered over the windows . |
| 16 | More generally , the effectiveness of the production system depends on the way the social system is adjusted to the technical requirements ( Emery and Trist , 1960 ) . |
| 17 | The camera is an auto-focus and the aperture is adjusted by the internal meter . |
| 18 | Before the family are contacted an appointment is arranged with the nominated paediatrician so that they can see the family within a day of their being approached by the primary health care team . |
| 19 | The genealogy is arranged in the following pattern : |
| 20 | The nature of the rebellion is explained by the social character of the island with a cohesive clan structure and social solidarity ; the leaders included radicals who had returned from Japan and schoolteachers . |
| 21 | Indeed , that part of the over-representation of teenagers amongst the temporary labour force which is not explained by the temporary working of persons still at school is explained by the high proportion of the age group in special youth training schemes . |
| 22 | It is explained by the slow growth of GDP in the UK ; consequently , comparisons of GDP per head place Britain in a very lowly position . |
| 23 | This is explained in the financial review on pages 28 and 29 . |
| 24 | The problems of providing this service are varied , and the view that procedures under local anaesthesia are less satisfactory than those under general anaesthesia is compounded by the current funding emphasis on day case surgery to the detriment of outpatient work . |
| 25 | The problem is compounded by the poor preservation of organic ( especially plant ) materials in the recent savannah . |
| 26 | This minefield is compounded by the moral nature of the problem ; about what is and is not acceptable behaviour . |
| 27 | This confusion between providers is compounded by the different definitions used by departments and agencies to identify their clients . |
| 28 | The two clearly do not correspond ; the Raman band is assigned to the fundamental , and the IR band to the second overtone of ν 2 . |
| 29 | The headship of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory is assigned by the Hebdomadal Council , on the recommendation of the Physical Sciences Board and of the General Board of the Faculties , for specified periods of not less than five years , to a person holding an established academic post in the department , who will usually be a professor or reader or the holder of such a title . |
| 30 | Fig. 3 ( c ) When the entire pool shape has been covered with its first layer of concrete , a reinforcing layer of 5 cm ( 2 in ) mesh chicken wire is placed over the still wet concrete . |