Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it is explained why the sun reigns supreme for six months of the year , followed by deadly winter until such time as the god of Spring blinds him again . |
| 2 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 3 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 4 | Bluntly stated : an enquirer into ‘ the mind ’ has to know what is in his own mind and why it is filled in the way it is . |
| 5 | The pipe is filled in the usual way . |
| 6 | Hunter observed that ‘ … the whole viscera when all the Blood is press 'd out goes into a very little bulk , even the Liver will lose vastly of its bulk and in short the whole viscera will come into a small compass when they are well clean 'd and put into dry cloths ; you are then to go to the trunk of the Body and empty it of Blood as well as you can and press the Blood out from the Face , Hands , etc. as well as Arms , and the more Blood is pressed out the better ’ . |
| 7 | Adults have no statutory rights to education and , as one educational gerontologist writes , ‘ if adult education is marginalised then the education of older adults is marginalised to the margins of the margin . ’ |
| 8 | if property is equalized then the economy will so he uses some sort of incentive argument here and maybe some sort of undertones here that inequalities are necessary to make the worse off better off than they would have been without them , but he thinks the uneducated poor may well be too stupid |
| 9 | If the house is owned jointly the profit can be split for tax purposes . |
| 10 | It also means that if one photographer you know and like is booked up the other one will probably be free to work with you . |
| 11 | Is it possible to extrapolate from this decision , and to say that an offence is committed whenever the constable is seeking to exercise a statutory power of arrest such as , for example , the power of arrest conferred by section 5 ? |
| 12 | In the West the closed fist is considered almost the only effective weapon to be used in unarmed combat . |
| 13 | The organisers of the Papal Mass at Bellahouston are likely to have a far bigger crowd than any football ground , and if the television audience is added then the potential is almost unlimited . |
| 14 | Sometimes xerolas ( vegetables and/or fruits , often in the shape of a gigantic ball and strung on a pole which is carried on the shoulders of two men ) are carried in the procession . |
| 15 | As this happens , the fertilised egg is carried down the fallopian tube into the uterus . |
| 16 | But it must be recognized at the outset that as soon as sampling is carried out the statements made about the cases involved become probability statements . |
| 17 | Here is carried out the most theoretical physics of any in Britain . |
| 18 | listen this is the end for the er political system , you see the half of it is collapsed already the , the north king so you see what 's happening in the , in the , er south king |
| 19 | With ball-valves the best remedy is complete replacement of the old valve with an equilibrium type ; this is designed so the valve can not be forced open by the incoming water pressure , only by movement of the float arm . |
| 20 | 6 This water carafe is designed so the tumbler fits neatly on the top to form the lid . |
| 21 | Worse still , as the proceedings unfold , each time you think you 've got the right handle on them , another different-coloured cat is let out the bag and there 's no use trying to spot the genre/influences . |
| 22 | Once your kit is sorted out the first hour is generally spent getting used to the skis , sidestepping up the slope and sliding straight down . |
| 23 | Unless that is sorted out the problem will remain there , ’ Mr Maan added . |
| 24 | Unless that is sorted out the problem will remain there , ’ Mr Maan added . |
| 25 | Water is sucked up the suction tube ( 1 ) into the pump ( 2 ) . |
| 26 | Conversely , if the dependence thesis is accepted then the case for the normal justification thesis becomes very strong . |
| 27 | Once the illness or pregnancy or death or disappointment is accepted then the preference ranking will shift again . |
| 28 | Throughout what follows either Cartesian or spherical polar coordinates are used when analysing motion in free fall ; the latter choice is made whenever the system studied has spherical symmetry . |
| 29 | For men , the shroud is made exactly the same as the above for women , excepting that there is no gathering in the front . |
| 30 | It is made all the more unfair by the fact that the institutions have been deprived of any real access to the water authorities . |